Continuous cuffless blood pressure measurement using body sensors

Fatemeh Hevdari, Malikeh P. Ebrahim, Taiyang Wu, Katie Walker, Keith Joe, Jean Michel Redoute, Mehmet R. Yuce

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Abstract

Non-invasive cuffless blood pressure (BP) measurement using pulse arrival time (PAT) offers some unique features for healthcare applications including improved wearability and user-friendly BP monitoring. Researchers have mostly been using electrocardiography (ECG) and photoplesthysmography (PPG) signals to measure PAT, which requires at least two separate attachments to the subject's body. In this paper, human cuffless systolic BP (SBP) calculations using the shoulders bioimpedance (BImp) signal were investigated and compared to PPG (left ear sensor) and oscillometric sphygmomanometric SBP (left upper arm). The BImp sensors were placed on subject's shoulder and could be completely hidden under their clothes. In order to calculate different BP trends, two groups of experimental conditions (mainly postures and exercises) were followed. Data was obtained from 43 volunteer participants whilst they were sitting, standing and supine, and 26 subjects then cycled on an exercise bike with light, moderate and heavy resistance settings. Four different mathematical models for calculating SBP were compared for accuracy, using both BImp and PPG signal data. Overall, the results of SBP calculation with BImp based PATs were 2% more accurate than that of PATs extracted from PPG.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 IEEE SENSORS Proceedings
EditorsRudra Pratap, Ravinder Dahiya
Place of PublicationPiscataway NJ USA
PublisherIEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages180-183
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781538647073
ISBN (Print)9781538647080
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
EventIEEE Conference on Sensors 2018 - New Delhi, India
Duration: 28 Oct 201831 Oct 2018
Conference number: 17th
http://ieee-sensors2018.org/
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/8572682/proceeding (Proceedings)

Conference

ConferenceIEEE Conference on Sensors 2018
Abbreviated titleSENSORS 2018
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityNew Delhi
Period28/10/1831/10/18
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