A compensation method for blood pressure estimation by pulse transit time

Author

Songsong Liu ; Ma, Heather T. ; Long Chen ; Xiaopeng Wang ; Dezhang Yuan

Author_Institution

Shenzhen Grad. Sch., Dept. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Shenzhen, China

fYear

2013

fDate

22-25 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Pulse transit time (PTT) has shown a high correlation with blood pressure and have been reported to be used for blood pressure estimation. However, PTT based blood pressure estimation is not accurate yet, especially for diastolic blood pressure estimation. In this study, we introduced a new compensation method for PTT based blood pressure estimation. A liner model for PTT based blood pressure estimation model was employed. Variation of PTT and PTT variability were introduced in the model as compensation. Experiment was conducted on 33 healthy subjects aged from 23 to 25. The proposed estimation model was applied on the experiment data and the estimated blood pressure values were compared to those measures by a standard oscillometry. The mean absolute errors of the proposed method in estimating systolic and diastolic pressures were 2.0333mmHg and 3.1mmHg, respectively. The results indicated that the proposed linear model with compensation could provide accurate blood pressure estimation.

Keywords

blood pressure measurement; electrocardiography; estimation theory; medical signal processing; photoplethysmography; PTT; compensation method; diastolic blood pressure estimation; diastolic pressures; mean absolute errors; oscillometry; pulse transit time; Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Calibration; Electrocardiography; Estimation; Monitoring; Pressure measurement; blood pressure; compensation; estimation; pulse transit time;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2013 - 2013 IEEE Region 10 Conference (31194)

Conference_Location

Xi´an

ISSN

2159-3442

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2825-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2013.6719021

Filename

6719021