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Publications (8)

eess.SP2024

Soli-enabled Noncontact Heart Rate Detection for Sleep and Meditation Tracking

Luzhou Xu, Jaime Lien, Haiguang Li +17

Heart rate (HR) is a crucial physiological signal that can be used to monitor health and fitness. Traditional methods for measuring HR require wearable devices, which can be inconv…

q-bio.TO2025

Passive Heart Rate Monitoring During Smartphone Use in Everyday Life

Shun Liao, Paolo Di Achille, Jiang Wu +15

Resting heart rate (RHR) is an important biomarker of cardiovascular health and mortality, but tracking it longitudinally generally requires a wearable device, limiting its availab…

cs.LG2026

WavesFM: Hierarchical Representation Learning for Longitudinal Wearable Sensor Waveforms

Peng Cao, Zhijian Yang, Tennison Liu +17

Wearable sensors enable the continuous acquisition of high-resolution physiological waveforms, such as photoplethysmography and accelerometry, under free-living conditions. However…

cs.AI2026

Towards a General Intelligence and Interface for Wearable Health Data

Girish Narayanswamy, Maxwell A. Xu, A. Ali Heydari +37

While ubiquitous wearable sensors capture a wealth of behavioral and physiological information, effectively transforming these signals into personalized health insights is challeng…

cs.CV2025

Smartphone monitoring of smiling as a behavioral proxy of well-being in everyday life

Ming-Zher Poh, Shun Liao, Marco Andreetto +10

Subjective well-being is a cornerstone of individual and societal health, yet its scientific measurement has traditionally relied on self-report methods prone to recall bias and hi…

cs.CV2025

A High-Throughput Platform to Bench Test Smartphone-Based Heart Rate Measurements Derived From Video

Ming-Zher Poh, Jonathan Wang, Jonathan Hsu +6

Smartphone-based heart rate (HR) monitoring apps using finger-over-camera photoplethysmography (PPG) face significant challenges in performance evaluation and device compatibility…

cs.CY2023

Towards Accurate Differential Diagnosis with Large Language Models

Daniel McDuff, Mike Schaekermann, Tao Tu +25

An accurate differential diagnosis (DDx) is a cornerstone of medical care, often reached through an iterative process of interpretation that combines clinical history, physical exa…

cs.AI2026

SymptomAI: Toward a Conversational AI Agent for Everyday Symptom Assessment

Joseph Breda, Fadi Yousif, Beszel Hawkins +30

Language models excel at diagnostic assessments on curated medical case-studies and vignettes, performing on par with, or better than, clinical professionals. However, existing stu…