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most citedDeep Imbalanced Regression to Estimate Vascular Age from PPG Data: a Novel Digital Biomarker for Cardiovascular Health

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eess.SP2026

Smartwatch Photoplethysmography-Derived Heart Age via ECG-Guided Cross-Modal Pretraining as a Digital Biomarker of Vascular Aging

Donglin Xie, Xueying Gui, Yutian Zhu +9

Digital biomarkers of cardiovascular aging, often termed heart or vascular age, have been widely studied, but most rely on resting electrocardiography (ECG), imaging, or specialize…

cs.LG2026

EchoBridge: Long-Tail-Aware ECG-Echocardiography Text Alignment for Echocardiography-Derived Cardiac Findings

Xiaocheng Fang, Jieyi Cai, Guangkun Nie +9

Standardized echocardiography conclusions provide meaningful supervision for learning ECG representations of echocardiography-derived cardiac findings. Global ECG--text alignment m…

cs.LG2026

ImputeECG: Deep Learning Reconstruction of Complete 12-Lead Electrocardiograms from Incomplete Recordings for Cardiac Assessment

Xiaocheng Fang, Haoyu Wang, Jieyi Cai +14

Complete digital 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs) are essential for AI-enabled cardiovascular assessment, yet many clinical ECG records, particularly those digitized from ECG imag…

cs.LG2026

CausalMoE: A Billion-Scale Multimodal Foundation Model for Granger Causal Discovery with Pattern-Routed Heterogeneous Experts

Bo Liu, Di Dai, Jingwei Liu +5

Granger Causal Discovery (GCD) is fundamental for analyzing temporal dependencies in complex systems. However, existing neural GCD methods predominantly rely on a "one-size-fits-al…

eess.SP2026

Holter-to-Sleep: AI-Enabled Repurposing of Single-Lead ECG for Sleep Phenotyping

Donglin Xie, Qingshuo Zhao, Jingyu Wang +9

Sleep disturbances are tightly linked to cardiovascular risk, yet polysomnography (PSG)-the clinical reference standard-remains resource-intensive and poorly suited for multi-night…

cs.LG2026

Artificial intelligence-enabled single-lead ECG for non-invasive hyperkalemia detection: development, multicenter validation, and proof-of-concept deployment

Gongzheng Tang, Qinghao Zhao, Guangkun Nie +10

Hyperkalemia is a life-threatening electrolyte disorder that is common in patients with chronic kidney disease and heart failure, yet frequent monitoring remains difficult outside…

eess.SP2026

AnyECG: Evolved ECG Foundation Model for Holistic Health Profiling

Jun Li, Hongling Zhu, Yujie Xiao +8

Background: Artificial intelligence enabled electrocardiography (AI-ECG) has demonstrated the ability to detect diverse pathologies, but most existing models focus on single diseas…

eess.IV2026

ECGFlowCMR: Pretraining with ECG-Generated Cine CMR Helps Cardiac Disease Classification and Phenotype Prediction

Xiaocheng Fang, Zhengyao Ding, Guangkun Nie +9

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) imaging provides a comprehensive assessment of cardiac structure and function but remains constrained by high acquisition costs and reliance on exp…

cs.CV2025

Fine-tuning an ECG Foundation Model to Predict Coronary CT Angiography Outcomes

Yujie Xiao, Qinghao Zhao, Gongzheng Tang +12

Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains a major global public health burden, yet scalable pre-imaging risk stratification tools are limited. In this multicenter study, we developed a…

eess.SP2025

AnyPPG: An ECG-Guided PPG Foundation Model Trained on Over 100,000 Hours of Recordings for Holistic Health Profiling

Guangkun Nie, Xiaocheng Fang, Gongzheng Tang +5

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is widely used as a non-invasive and accessible modality for continuous health monitoring. However, despite being a peripheral hemodynamic signal intrins…

cs.LG2025

AnyECG-Lab: An Exploration Study of Fine-tuning an ECG Foundation Model to Estimate Laboratory Values from Single-Lead ECG Signals

Yujie Xiao, Gongzhen Tang, Wenhui Liu +6

Timely access to laboratory values is critical for clinical decision-making, yet current approaches rely on invasive venous sampling and are intrinsically delayed. Electrocardiogra…

cs.AI2025

Combining ECG Foundation Model and XGBoost to Predict In-Hospital Malignant Ventricular Arrhythmias in AMI Patients

Shun Huang, Wenlu Xing, Shijia Geng +5

Malignant ventricular arrhythmias (VT/VF) following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are a major cause of in-hospital death, yet early identification remains a clinical challenge.…

cs.LG2025

PPGFlowECG: Latent Rectified Flow with Cross-Modal Encoding for PPG-Guided ECG Generation and Cardiovascular Disease Detection

Xiaocheng Fang, Jiarui Jin, Haoyu Wang +8

Electrocardiography (ECG) is the clinical gold standard for cardiovascular disease (CVD) assessment, yet continuous monitoring is constrained by the need for dedicated hardware and…

eess.SP2025

Artificial Intelligence-derived Photoplethysmography Age as a Digital Biomarker for Cardiovascular Health

Guangkun Nie, Qinghao Zhao, Gongzheng Tang +2

Background: Photoplethysmography (PPG), increasingly available through wearable devices, provides a non-invasive means of monitoring human hemodynamics. In this study, we introduce…

cs.LG2024

Dist Loss: Enhancing Regression in Few-Shot Region through Distribution Distance Constraint

Guangkun Nie, Gongzheng Tang, Shenda Hong

Imbalanced data distributions are prevalent in real-world scenarios, posing significant challenges in both imbalanced classification and imbalanced regression tasks. They often cau…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Deep Imbalanced Regression to Estimate Vascular Age from PPG Data: a Novel Digital Biomarker for Cardiovascular Health

Guangkun Nie, Qinghao Zhao, Gongzheng Tang +2

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is emerging as a crucial tool for monitoring human hemodynamics, with recent studies highlighting its potential in assessing vascular aging through deep…

cs.AI2024

A Scoping Review of Deep Learning Methods for Photoplethysmography Data

Guangkun Nie, Jiabao Zhu, Gongzheng Tang +4

Background: Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a non-invasive optical sensing technique widely used to capture hemodynamic information, with broad deployment in both clinical monitoring…