Improving the Plausibility of Pressure Distributions Synthesized from Depth through Generative Modeling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13757v1
• Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:08:36 GMT
• Title: Improving the Plausibility of Pressure Distributions Synthesized from Depth through Generative Modeling
• Authors: Neevkumar Manavar, Hanno Gerd Meyer, Joachim Waßmuth, Barbara Hammer, Axel Schneider,
• Abstract summary: Monitoring contact pressure in hospital beds is essential for preventing pressure ulcers and enabling real-time patient assessment.<n>Current methods can predict pressure maps but often lack physical plausibility, limiting clinical reliability.<n>This work proposes a framework that enhances plausibility via Informed Latent Space (ILS) and Weight Optimization Loss (WOL) with generative modeling to produce high-fidelity, physically consistent pressure estimates.
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• Abstract: Monitoring contact pressure in hospital beds is essential for preventing pressure ulcers and enabling real-time patient assessment. Current methods can predict pressure maps but often lack physical plausibility, limiting clinical reliability. This work proposes a framework that enhances plausibility via Informed Latent Space (ILS) and Weight Optimization Loss (WOL) with generative modeling to produce high-fidelity, physically consistent pressure estimates. This study also applies diffusion based conditional Brownian Bridge Diffusion Model (BBDM) and proposes training strategy for its latent counterpart Latent Brownian Bridge Diffusion Model (LBBDM) tailored for pressure synthesis in lying postures. Experiment results shows proposed method improves physical plausibility and performance over baselines: BBDM with ILS delivers highly detailed maps at higher computational cost and large inference time, whereas LBBDM provides faster inference with competitive performance. Overall, the approach supports non-invasive, vision-based, real-time patient monitoring in clinical environments.

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