Self-supervised multi-encoder autoencoder (MEAE) that separates heartbeat-related source signals from noisy photoplethysmogram (PPG) via blind source separation, improving heart-rate detection without requiring any pre-processing or manual data selection. Trained entirely on PPG signals from a large open polysomnography database (with no cleaning or curation), the model is then applied to a noisy real-world PPG dataset collected during daily activities of 9 subjects and a surgical dataset of 4,681 patients; the extracted heartbeat-related source signal significantly improves heart-rate detection accuracy compared with using the raw PPG signal directly.

ECG-guided photoplethysmography (PPG) foundation model pretrained on over 100,000 hours of synchronized PPG-ECG recordings from 58,796 subjects across five clinical and wearable sources, using a CLIP-style contrastive alignment framework so the PPG encoder inherits physiologically grounded structure from paired ECG. Achieves state-of-the-art performance on 13 of 15 conventional physiological-analysis tasks across eight datasets, and shows meaningful discriminative capability (AUC >= 0.70) for 307 ICD-10-coded phenotypes across 16 phecode chapters, including many non-cardiovascular conditions.

Self-supervised foundation model for photoplethysmography (PPG) that explicitly targets the low-signal-quality problem endemic to real-world wearable and bedside PPG, rather than assuming clean input. A Siamese ResNet (SimSiam-style) encoder is pretrained to produce similar representations for temporally-adjacent high- and low-quality PPG segments presumed to share the same underlying physiological state, with curriculum learning that gradually increases the artifact-level gap between paired segments. Pretrained on over 36 million 30-second PPG pairs drawn from more than 24,100 UCSF ICU patients, then fine-tuned and evaluated on six downstream cardiovascular-monitoring datasets/tasks (heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, and atrial-fibrillation detection), where it exceeds prior state-of-the-art by roughly 75% on respiratory-rate estimation and 5% on AF detection, with performance scaling with backbone depth (ResNet152 best). Code and the pretraining dataset are not public; the pretraining data is available upon request under a UCSF-Emory data use agreement.

Translates a raw PPG waveform into a full continuous arterial blood-pressure waveform, from which systolic, diastolic, and mean arterial pressure are derived. Uses a two-stage cascaded 1D convolutional network in a U-Net style, with a coarse approximation stage followed by a refinement stage. Meets BHS Grade A and AAMI accuracy standards for diastolic and mean arterial pressure. Developed at BUET.