A method for characterizing daily physiology from widely used wearables

C Bowman, Y Huang, OJ Walch, Y Fang, E Frank… - Cell reports …, 2021 - cell.com
Millions of wearable-device users record their heart rate (HR) and activity. We introduce a
statistical method to extract and track six key physiological parameters from these data …

Consumer-grade wearables identify changes in multiple physiological systems during COVID-19 disease progression

C Mayer, J Tyler, Y Fang, C Flora, E Frank… - Cell Reports …, 2022 - cell.com
Consumer-grade wearables are needed to track disease, especially in the ongoing
pandemic, as they can monitor patients in real time. We show that decomposing heart rate …

Characterizing the human heart rate circadian pacemaker through widely available wearable devices

C Bowman, Y Huang, OJ Walch, Y Fang, E Frank… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Real world passive measures of circadian timekeeping have the potential to improve the
efficacy of medical treatments and improve human performance on a broad scale. Here, we …

Empirical Fitting of Periodically Repeating Environmental Data

P Bělík, A Hotchkiss, B Perez… - Spora: A Journal of …, 2021 - ir.library.illinoisstate.edu
We extend and generalize an approach to conduct fitting models of periodically repeating
data. Our method first detrends the data from a baseline function and then fits the data to a …