Cross-View Attention Fusion Net: A Prior-Guided Dual-View Representation Learning for Cardiac Output Estimation from Short-Term PPG Signals

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Autori principali: Zhang, Yaowen, Cui, Bo, Fresiello, Libera, Veltink, Peter H., Donker, Dirk W., Wang, Ying
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author Zhang, Yaowen
Cui, Bo
Fresiello, Libera
Veltink, Peter H.
Donker, Dirk W.
Wang, Ying
author_facet Zhang, Yaowen
Cui, Bo
Fresiello, Libera
Veltink, Peter H.
Donker, Dirk W.
Wang, Ying
contents Accurate cardiac output (CO) estimation from photoplethysmography (PPG) is promising for unobtrusive hemodynamic monitoring, but remains difficult since CO is jointly determined by cardiac function and vascular tone. Conventional feature-based models use physiologically meaningful PPG descriptors, yet depend on accurate pulse detection and may miss latent temporal relationships. In contrast, fully end-to-end deep learning models learn directly from raw PPG but often underuse established PPG-derived prior information. Here, we introduce the Cross-View Attention Fusion Network (CVAF-Net), a prior-guided dual-view deep learning model for CO estimation from short, fixed-length PPG segments. CVAF-Net processes raw PPG as a temporal view and a feature sequence map (FSM) as a structured prior-guided view, and fuses the two representations through cross-view attention. The model was independently evaluated using 5-, 15-, and 30-s segments from three datasets: simulated pulse waves (3323 subjects), vasoconstriction provocation (79 subjects), and resting/cycling activities (10 subjects), and was compared with multiple machine learning and deep learning benchmarks. CVAF-Net outperformed most benchmark methods and achieved performance comparable to a state-of-the-art Transformer-based model, with a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.19 L/min (MAPE: 3.95%) on simulated data and high accuracy in real-world settings (minimum MAE: 1.20 L/min). Importantly, CVAF-Net reduced FLOPs by twelvefold compared with the leading Transformer-based model. Plausibility analysis showed physiologically consistent CO estimates, with expected correlations with age ($ρ= -0.274$), heart rate ($ρ= 0.894$), and systemic vascular resistance ($ρ= -0.740$). These findings indicate that CVAF-Net provides an accurate, computationally efficient, and generalizable approach for continuous wearable-based CO monitoring.
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spellingShingle Cross-View Attention Fusion Net: A Prior-Guided Dual-View Representation Learning for Cardiac Output Estimation from Short-Term PPG Signals
Zhang, Yaowen
Cui, Bo
Fresiello, Libera
Veltink, Peter H.
Donker, Dirk W.
Wang, Ying
Medical Physics
Machine Learning
Accurate cardiac output (CO) estimation from photoplethysmography (PPG) is promising for unobtrusive hemodynamic monitoring, but remains difficult since CO is jointly determined by cardiac function and vascular tone. Conventional feature-based models use physiologically meaningful PPG descriptors, yet depend on accurate pulse detection and may miss latent temporal relationships. In contrast, fully end-to-end deep learning models learn directly from raw PPG but often underuse established PPG-derived prior information. Here, we introduce the Cross-View Attention Fusion Network (CVAF-Net), a prior-guided dual-view deep learning model for CO estimation from short, fixed-length PPG segments. CVAF-Net processes raw PPG as a temporal view and a feature sequence map (FSM) as a structured prior-guided view, and fuses the two representations through cross-view attention. The model was independently evaluated using 5-, 15-, and 30-s segments from three datasets: simulated pulse waves (3323 subjects), vasoconstriction provocation (79 subjects), and resting/cycling activities (10 subjects), and was compared with multiple machine learning and deep learning benchmarks. CVAF-Net outperformed most benchmark methods and achieved performance comparable to a state-of-the-art Transformer-based model, with a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.19 L/min (MAPE: 3.95%) on simulated data and high accuracy in real-world settings (minimum MAE: 1.20 L/min). Importantly, CVAF-Net reduced FLOPs by twelvefold compared with the leading Transformer-based model. Plausibility analysis showed physiologically consistent CO estimates, with expected correlations with age ($ρ= -0.274$), heart rate ($ρ= 0.894$), and systemic vascular resistance ($ρ= -0.740$). These findings indicate that CVAF-Net provides an accurate, computationally efficient, and generalizable approach for continuous wearable-based CO monitoring.
title Cross-View Attention Fusion Net: A Prior-Guided Dual-View Representation Learning for Cardiac Output Estimation from Short-Term PPG Signals
topic Medical Physics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19666