Hybrid Modeling of Photoplethysmography for Non-invasive Monitoring of Cardiovascular Parameters

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14452v1
• Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:56:20 GMT
• Title: Hybrid Modeling of Photoplethysmography for Non-invasive Monitoring of Cardiovascular Parameters
• Authors: Emanuele Palumbo, Sorawit Saengkyongam, Maria R. Cervera, Jens Behrmann, Andrew C. Miller, Guillermo Sapiro, Christina Heinze-Deml, Antoine Wehenkel,
• Abstract summary: We propose a hybrid approach that uses hemodynamic simulations and unlabeled clinical data to estimate cardiovascular biomarkers directly from PPG signals.<n>Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed approach can detect fluctuations of cardiac output and stroke volume and outperform a supervised baseline in monitoring temporal changes in these biomarkers.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Continuous cardiovascular monitoring can play a key role in precision health. However, some fundamental cardiac biomarkers of interest, including stroke volume and cardiac output, require invasive measurements, e.g., arterial pressure waveforms (APW). As a non-invasive alternative, photoplethysmography (PPG) measurements are routinely collected in hospital settings. Unfortunately, the prediction of key cardiac biomarkers from PPG instead of APW remains an open challenge, further complicated by the scarcity of annotated PPG measurements. As a solution, we propose a hybrid approach that uses hemodynamic simulations and unlabeled clinical data to estimate cardiovascular biomarkers directly from PPG signals. Our hybrid model combines a conditional variational autoencoder trained on paired PPG-APW data with a conditional density estimator of cardiac biomarkers trained on labeled simulated APW segments. As a key result, our experiments demonstrate that the proposed approach can detect fluctuations of cardiac output and stroke volume and outperform a supervised baseline in monitoring temporal changes in these biomarkers.

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