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PPG signals are an emerging non-invasive measurement technique used to study blood volume pulsations through the detection and analysis of the back-scattered optical radiation coming from the skin. ECG is the process of recording the electrical activity of the heart over a period of time using electrodes placed on the skin. In the present paper we propose a physiological ECG\/PPG \u201ccombo\u201d pipeline using an innovative bio-inspired nonlinear system based on a reaction-diffusion mathematical model, implemented by means of the Cellular Neural Network (CNN) methodology, to filter PPG signal by assigning a recognition score to the waveforms in the time series. The resulting \u201cclean\u201d PPG signal exempts from distortion and artifacts is used to validate for diagnostic purpose an EGC signal simultaneously detected for a same patient. The multisite combo PPG-ECG system proposed in this work overpasses the limitations of the state of the art in this field providing a reliable system for assessing the above-mentioned physiological parameters and their monitoring over time for robust medical assessment. The proposed system has been validated and the results confirmed the robustness of the proposed approach.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18020405","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,1,30]],"date-time":"2018-01-30T12:13:37Z","timestamp":1517314417000},"page":"405","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":134,"title":["An Advanced Bio-Inspired PhotoPlethysmoGraphy (PPG) and ECG Pattern Recognition System for Medical Assessment"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1766-3065","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Francesco","family":"Rundo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"STMicroelectronics\u2014ADG Central R&amp;D, 95121 Catania, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5874-7284","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sabrina","family":"Conoci","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"STMicroelectronics\u2014ADG Central R&amp;D, 95121 Catania, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3461-4679","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alessandro","family":"Ortis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, 95125 Catania, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6127-2470","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sebastiano","family":"Battiato","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, 95125 Catania, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,1,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"95","article-title":"SiPM as miniaturised optical biosensor for DNA-microarray applications","volume":"6","author":"Santangelo","year":"2015","journal-title":"Sens. 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