Title :
Assessment of algorithms for oscillometric blood pressure measurement
Author :
Chen, S. ; Groza, Voicu Z. ; Bolic, Miodrag ; Dajani, Hilmi R.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Eng., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Abstract :
Three different algorithms for finding blood pressure through the oscillometric method were researched and assessed. It is shown that these algorithms are based on two different underlying approaches. The estimated values of systolic and diastolic blood pressure are compared against the nurse readings. The best two approaches turned out to be the linear approximation algorithm and the points of rapidly increasing/decreasing slope algorithm. Future work on combining these two algorithms using algorithm fusion is envisaged.
Keywords :
approximation theory; blood pressure measurement; medical signal processing; sensor fusion; algorithm fusion; diastolic blood pressure; linear approximation algorithm; oscillometric blood pressure measurement; slope algorithm; systolic blood pressure; Approximation algorithms; Arteries; Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Coplanar waveguides; Heart; Linear approximation; Low pass filters; Pressure measurement; Wrist; diastolic; maximum amplitude algorithm; mean arterial pressure; oscillometric blood pressure; systolic;
Conference_Titel :
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2009. I2MTC '09. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3352-0
DOI :
10.1109/IMTC.2009.5168742