In recent decades, cuffless blood pressure monitoring technology has been a point of research in the field of health monitoring and public media. Based on the web of science database, this paper evaluated the publications in the field from 1990 to 20...
1 December 2023
It would be useful to develop a reliable method for the cuffless measurement of blood pressure (BP), as such a method could be made available anytime and anywhere for the effective screening and monitoring of arterial hypertension. The purpose of thi...
Objective: Devices for cuffless blood pressure (BP) measurement have become increasingly widespread in recent years. Non-invasive continuous BP monitor (BPM) devices can diagnose potential hypertensive patients at an early stage; however, these cuffl...
Hypertension is a chronic condition that is one of the prominent reasons behind cardiovascular disease, brain stroke, and organ failure. Left unnoticed and untreated, the deterioration in a health condition could even result in mortality. If it can b...
In the last decade, cuffless blood pressure measurement technology has been widely studied because it could be applied to a wearable apparatus. Electrocardiography (ECG), photo-plethysmography (PPG), and phonocardiography are always used to detect th...
Pulse transit time (PTT) has received considerable attention for noninvasive cuffless blood pressure measurement. However, this approach is inconvenient to deploy in wearable devices because two sensors are required for collecting two-channel physiol...
This paper investigates new feature extraction and regression methods for predicting cuffless blood pressure from PPG signals. Cuffless blood pressure is a technology that measures blood pressure without needing a cuff. This technology can be used in...
Cardiovascular diseases, particularly hypertension, pose a significant threat to global health, often referred to as a “silent killer”. Traditional cuff-based blood pressure monitors have limitations in terms of convenience and continuous...
An important means for preventing and managing cardiovascular disease is the non-invasive estimation of blood pressure. There is particular interest in developing approaches that provide accurate cuffless and continuous estimation of this important v...
Noninvasive blood pressure estimation is crucial for cardiovascular and hypertension patients. Cuffless-based blood pressure estimation has received much attention recently for continuous blood pressure monitoring. This paper proposes a new methodolo...
Traditional cuff-based sphygmomanometers for measuring blood pressure can be uncomfortable and particularly unsuitable to use during sleep. A proposed alternative method uses dynamic changes in the pulse waveform over short intervals and replaces cal...
Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, yet cuffless blood pressure monitoring remains challenging because most existing methods rely on intermittent cuff-based measurements or multimodal physiological signals. This work propo...
Blood pressure (BP) monitoring is crucial for identifying high BP (hypertension) and is an important aspect of patient care. However, traditional cuff-based methods for BP monitoring are unsuitable for continuous monitoring and can cause discomfort t...
Cuffless continuous blood pressure (BP) monitoring is essential for personal health management. However, its accuracy is challenged by the diversity and heterogeneity of physiological data sources. We propose a multi-source feature selection framewor...
Arterial blood pressure (BP) is a crucial physiological parameter reflecting cardiovascular function and exhibiting dynamic oscillations in response to physiological, psychological, and environmental changes. Since conventional cuff-based measurement...
Non-invasive blood pressure (BP) monitoring using photoplethysmography (PPG) has significant potential, yet accurately predicting systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure using photoplethysmogram (PPG) and electrocardiogram (ECG) signals rem...
The present study aims to develop and validate a cuffless method for blood pressure continuous measurement through a wearable device. The goal is achieved according to the time-delay method, with the guiding principle of the time relation it takes fo...
Cuffless blood pressure estimation using the finger-pressing method remains sensitive to improper finger centering and inconsistent contact force, which degrade the accuracy of the oscillometric envelope and PPG signal morphology. This paper details...
Nocturnal monitoring of continuous, cuffless blood pressure (BP) can unleash a whole new world for the prognostication of cardiovascular and other diseases due to its strong predictive capability. Nevertheless, the lack of an accurate and reliable me...
Blood pressure (BP) monitoring is essential for cardiovascular health management, yet traditional cuff-based methods face limitations including patient discomfort and inapplicability for certain populations. This study presents a deep learning framew...
Research has shown that pulse transit time (PTT), which is the time delay between the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal and the signal from a photoplethysmogram (PPG) sensor, can be used to estimate systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pres...
Blood pressure measurements are one of the most routinely performed medical tests globally. Blood pressure is an important metric since it provides information that can be used to diagnose several vascular diseases. Conventional blood pressure measur...
Cuffless blood pressure (BP) monitoring is crucial for patients with cardiovascular disease and hypertension. However, conventional BP monitors provide only single-point estimates without confidence intervals. Therefore, the statistical variability i...
Hypertension is a well-known chronic disease that causes complications such as cardiovascular diseases or stroke, and thus needs to be continuously managed by using a simple system for measuring blood pressure. The existing method for measuring blood...
Continuous blood pressure (BP) monitoring remains a major challenge in wearable healthcare systems, as conventional cuff-based sphygmomanometers are intermittent and unsuitable for long-term use. This study presents a Smart Sock platform for cuffless...
Cardiovascular disease is a major health threat closely associated with blood pressure levels. While continuous monitoring is essential, traditional cuff-based devices are inconvenient for long-term use. Current methods often fail to balance deep lea...
This paper presents a method to improve confidence-interval (CI) estimation using individual uncertainty measures and weighted feature decisions for cuff-less blood-pressure (BP) measurement. We obtained uncertainty using Gaussian process regression...
Initial calibration is a great challenge for cuff-less blood pressure (BP) measurement. The traditional one point-to-point (oPTP) calibration procedure only uses one sample/point to obtain unknown parameters of a specific model in a calm state. In fa...
Accurately measuring blood pressure (BP) is essential for maintaining physiological health, which is commonly achieved using cuff-based sphygmomanometers. Several attempts have been made to develop cuffless sphygmomanometers. To increase their accura...
The cuffless blood pressure (BP) measurement allows for frequent measurement without discomfort to the patient compared to the cuff inflation measurement. With the availability of a large dataset containing physiological waveforms, now it is possible...
Remote health monitoring systems play an important role in the healthcare sector. Edge computing is a key enabler for realizing these systems, where it is required to collect big data while providing real-time guarantees. In this study, we focus on r...
Due to the growing public awareness of cardiovascular disease (CVD), blood pressure (BP) estimation models have been developed based on physiological parameters extracted from both electrocardiograms (ECGs) and photoplethysmograms (PPGs). Still, in o...
Continuous blood pressure (BP) measurement is essential for real-time hypertension management and the prevention of related complications. To address this need, a cuffless BP estimation technique utilizing biosignals from wearable devices has gained...
Using the Plethysmograph (PPG) signal to estimate blood pressure (BP) is attractive given the convenience and possibility of continuous measurement. However, due to the personal differences and the insufficiency of data, the dilemma between the accur...
Wearable cuffless photoplethysmographic blood pressure monitors have garnered widespread attention in recent years; however, the long-term performance values of these devices are questionable. Most cuffless blood pressure monitors require initial bas...
Currently, in terms of reducing the infection risk of the COVID-19 virus spreading all over the world, the development of touchless blood pressure (BP) measurement has potential benefits. The pulse transit time (PTT) has a high relation with BP, whic...
Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and requires effective long-term monitoring. Photoplethysmography (PPG), acquired from wearable optical sensors, offers a convenient and non-invasive signal source for cuffless blood pres...
Continuous non-invasive blood pressure monitoring holds significant promise for cardiovascular disease management, yet cuff-based methods remain limited by their intermittent nature. Machine learning approaches leveraging photoplethysmography (PPG) a...
Routine blood pressure measurement is important for the early detection of various diseases. Recently, cuffless blood pressure estimation methods that do not require cuff pressurization have attracted attention. In this study, we investigated the eff...
Cardiovascular disease, like hypertension, is one of the top killers of human life and early detection of cardiovascular disease is of great importance. However, traditional medical devices are often bulky and expensive, and unsuitable for home healt...
Background: The Somnotouch-Non-Invasive-Blood-Pressure (NIBP) device delivers raw data consisting of electrocardiography and photoplethysmography for estimating blood pressure (BP) over 24 h using pulse-transit-time. The study’s aim was to anal...
Objective: Blood pressure (BP) data can influence therapeutic decisions for some patients, while non-invasive devices that continuously monitor BP can provide patients with a more comprehensive BP assessment. Therefore, this study proposes a multi-se...
The availability of simple, accurate, and affordable cuffless blood pressure (BP) devices has the potential to greatly increase the compliance with measurement recommendations and the utilization of BP measurements for BP telemonitoring. The aim of t...
The paper describes the development, testing, and verification of practical usability of the indirect cuffless method for estimation of arterial blood pressure (ABP) values from the photo-plethysmography (PPG) signal sensed by the optical PPG sensor....
Blood pressure (BP) measurement is a major physiological information for people with cardiovascular diseases, such as hypertension, heart failure, and atherosclerosis. Moreover, elders and patients with kidney disease and diabetes mellitus also are s...
Traditional cuff-based blood pressure measurement methods suffer from issues such as intermittency and applicability, while cuff-less continuous blood pressure estimation techniques are increasingly gaining attention due to their non-invasive and con...
Blood pressure is a central marker of cardiovascular risk, but continuous monitoring remains difficult because cuff-based measurements are intermittent and uncomfortable. Photoplethysmography (PPG) is already ubiquitous in wearables and can, in princ...
Measuring continuous blood pressure (BP) in real time by using a mobile health (mHealth) application would open a new door in the advancement of the healthcare system. This study aimed to propose a real-time method and system for measuring BP without...
Blood pressure (BP) is an essential physiological indicator to identify and determine health status. Compared with the isolated BP measurement conducted by traditional cuff approaches, cuffless BP monitoring can reflect the dynamic changes in BP valu...
Traditional cuff-based blood pressure (BP) monitoring methods provide only intermittent readings, while invasive alternatives pose clinical risks. Recent studies have demonstrated feasibility of estimating continuous non-invasive cuff-less BP using p...
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