ECGDiff: Conditional Diffusion Model for ECG Reconstruction from Doppler Signals

Electrocardiogram (ECG) measurement is a fundamental diagnostic and monitoring tool in cardiology and healthcare. It plays a crucial role in identifying and managing cardiac conditions, assessing heart function, and improving patient outcomes through timely interventions and treatment adjustments. Conventional approaches for ECG measurement are often unsuitable for everyday use due to their invasiveness, inaccessibility, or limited accuracy. In this context, we introduce ECGDiff, a novel approach based on conditional denoising diffusion models for ECG signals reconstruction from Doppler signals. ECGDiff provides a non-intrusive and accessible method for non-contact ECG measurement. Our method represents a pioneering use of denoising diffusion models for time series trans-lation. In the proposed framework, ECG signals are iteratively reconstructed from random noise using preprocessed signals derived from a Doppler sensor as input conditions. Extensive experiments have been conducted on a dataset comprising 19 healthy individuals, consisting of pairs of synchronized Doppler and ECG signals. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed ECGDiff outperforms other state-of-the-art methods by a large margin for the task of ECG signals reconstruction. Specifically, we achieved a DTW score of 8.32, a Frechet distance score of 3.10, and a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.93. These results highlight the effectiveness of our approach for reconstructing ECG signals from Doppler signals.