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Main Authors: Chen, Zehua, Miao, Yuyang, Wang, Liyuan, Fan, Luyun, Mandic, Danilo P., Zhu, Jun
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22306
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author Chen, Zehua
Miao, Yuyang
Wang, Liyuan
Fan, Luyun
Mandic, Danilo P.
Zhu, Jun
author_facet Chen, Zehua
Miao, Yuyang
Wang, Liyuan
Fan, Luyun
Mandic, Danilo P.
Zhu, Jun
contents Cardiovascular signals such as photoplethysmography (PPG), electrocardiography (ECG), and blood pressure (BP) are inherently correlated and complementary, together reflecting the health of cardiovascular system. However, their joint utilization in real-time monitoring is severely limited by diverse acquisition challenges from noisy wearable recordings to burdened invasive procedures. Here we propose UniCardio, a multi-modal diffusion transformer that reconstructs low-quality signals and synthesizes unrecorded signals in a unified generative framework. Its key innovations include a specialized model architecture to manage the signal modalities involved in generation tasks and a continual learning paradigm to incorporate varying modality combinations. By exploiting the complementary nature of cardiovascular signals, UniCardio clearly outperforms recent task-specific baselines in signal denoising, imputation, and translation. The generated signals match the performance of ground-truth signals in detecting abnormal health conditions and estimating vital signs, even in unseen domains, while ensuring interpretability for human experts. These advantages position UniCardio as a promising avenue for advancing AI-assisted healthcare.
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spellingShingle Versatile Cardiovascular Signal Generation with a Unified Diffusion Transformer
Chen, Zehua
Miao, Yuyang
Wang, Liyuan
Fan, Luyun
Mandic, Danilo P.
Zhu, Jun
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Cardiovascular signals such as photoplethysmography (PPG), electrocardiography (ECG), and blood pressure (BP) are inherently correlated and complementary, together reflecting the health of cardiovascular system. However, their joint utilization in real-time monitoring is severely limited by diverse acquisition challenges from noisy wearable recordings to burdened invasive procedures. Here we propose UniCardio, a multi-modal diffusion transformer that reconstructs low-quality signals and synthesizes unrecorded signals in a unified generative framework. Its key innovations include a specialized model architecture to manage the signal modalities involved in generation tasks and a continual learning paradigm to incorporate varying modality combinations. By exploiting the complementary nature of cardiovascular signals, UniCardio clearly outperforms recent task-specific baselines in signal denoising, imputation, and translation. The generated signals match the performance of ground-truth signals in detecting abnormal health conditions and estimating vital signs, even in unseen domains, while ensuring interpretability for human experts. These advantages position UniCardio as a promising avenue for advancing AI-assisted healthcare.
title Versatile Cardiovascular Signal Generation with a Unified Diffusion Transformer
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22306