A new modeling methodology for continuous cuffless blood pressure measurement

Continuous blood pressure (BP) monitoring in a noninvasive and unobtrusive way can significantly improve the awareness, control and treatment rate of prevalent hypertension. Pulse transit time (PTT) has become increasingly popular in recent years for continuous BP measurement without a cuff. However...

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Main Authors: Ding, Xiao-Rong, Zhang, Yuan-Ting, Tsang, Ki
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Biomedical monitoring
Blood pressure
Estimates
Estimation
Health
Hypertension
Linear regression
Mathematical model
Modelling
Regression
Standard deviation
Tracking
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Summary:Continuous blood pressure (BP) monitoring in a noninvasive and unobtrusive way can significantly improve the awareness, control and treatment rate of prevalent hypertension. Pulse transit time (PTT) has become increasingly popular in recent years for continuous BP measurement without a cuff. However, the accuracy issue of PTT-based method remains to be solved for clinical application. Some previous studies have attempted to estimate BP with only PTT by using linear regression, which is susceptible to arterial regulation and may not reflect the actual relationship between PTT and BP. Furthermore, PTT does not contain all the information of BP variation, thereby resulting in unsatisfactory accuracy. In this paper we establish a cuffless BP estimation model from a physiological perspective by utilizing PTT and photoplethysmogram (PPG) intensity ratio (PIR), an indicator we have recently proposed for evaluation of the change in arterial diameter and the low frequency variation of BP, with the consideration that PIR can track changes in mean BP (MBP) and arterial diameter change. The performance of the proposed BP model was evaluated by comparing the estimated BP with Finapres BP as reference on 10 healthy subjects. The results showed that the mean ± standard deviation (SD) of the estimation error for systolic and diastolic BP were -0.41 ± 5.15 and -0.84 ± 4.05 mmHg, and mean absolute difference (MAD) were 4.18 and 3.43 mmHg, respectively. Furthermore, the proposed modeling method was superior to one contrast PTT-based method, demonstrating the proposed model would be promising for reliable continuous cuffless BP measurement.
ISSN:2168-2208
DOI:10.1109/BHI.2016.7455885