A h-Shirt-Based Body Sensor Network for Cuffless Calibration and Estimation of Arterial Blood Pressure

Author

Gu, W.B. ; Poon, C.C.Y. ; Sy, M.Y. ; Leung, H.K. ; Liang, Y.P. ; Zhang, Y.T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

fYear

2009

fDate

3-5 June 2009

Firstpage

151

Lastpage

155

Abstract

In this paper, a body sensor network (BSN) system for measuring systolic blood pressure (SBP) by a cuffless approach based on h-Shirt has been developed. Two experiments were conducted on a total of 22 subjects to evaluate the cuffless calibration approach and BSN system respectively. The results showed that using the estimated time and distance travelled by a pulse and a parameter derived from the secondary derivative of PPG, the BSN system can measure SBP completely without using a cuff within 1.2Â±6.0 mmHg of the reference on 10 healthy subjects aged 21-35 yrs.

Keywords

blood pressure measurement; calibration; electric sensing devices; electrocardiography; patient monitoring; age 21 yr to 35 yr; arterial blood pressure estimation; cuffless approach; cuffless calibration; h-shirt-based body sensor network; systolic blood pressure; Arterial blood pressure; Arteries; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical measurements; Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Body sensor networks; Calibration; Pulse measurements; Volume measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, 2009. BSN 2009. Sixth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Berkeley, CA

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3644-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BSN.2009.23

Filename

5226901