PPG-Bench is an open‑source benchmark that evaluates five publicly available photoplethysmography (PPG) foundation models across nine datasets and 26 tasks, covering cardiovascular state estimation, activity, sleep, screening, and identification. The benchmark tests models under four downstream regimes—linear probing, random forests, frozen MLP probes, and end‑to‑end finetuning—while also comparing them to three controls: a random/constant baseline, a deterministic pulse‑rate‑variability feature set, and a generic time‑series foundation model (MOMENT). Results show that over a third of task‑regime combinations yield no advantage for any PPG foundation model over the baseline, and in most cases no PPG‑specific model outperforms the simple controls, indicating that current PPG foundation models lack generalised, transferable representations.
By Arvasu Kulkarni, Mahir Jain, Aditya Ray Mishra, Sandeep Singh, Siddharth Panwar
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arXiv:2607. 23406v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous cuffless blood pressure (BP) monitoring is essential for connected health systems and wearable devices, enabling early detection, longitudinal tracking, and personalized management of cardiovascular disease.
By Bo Wu, Haoling Wang, Zhuodiao Kuang, Kateryna Shapovalenko
arXiv:2608. 12944v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electrocardiography (ECG), photoplethysmography (PPG), and phonocardiography (PCG) provide complementary views of the same cardiac cycle, yet existing cardiac foundation models are trained for a single sensing modality, leaving the shared physiology across sensors unexploited.
By Hamza Shafiq, Hung Manh Pham, Bin Zhu, Pan Zhou, Jun Hu, Aaqib Saeed
arXiv:2606. 06718v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Myocardial substrate abnormalities, such as myocardial scar and myocardial infarction (MI), are associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes.
By Canyu Lei, Fenglin Zhang, Derek Bivona, Cristiane Singulane, Jonathan Pan, Kenneth Bilchick, Amit R. Patel, Jianxin Xie
arXiv:2606. 07365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Photoplethysmography (PPG), a non-invasive measure of changes in blood volume, is widely used in both wearable devices and clinical settings.
By Eloy Geenjaar, Vince Calhoun, Scott Daly, Gouthaman KV, Lie Lu, Trisha Mittal, Daniel P. Darcy