Using Ballistocardiogram and Impedance Plethysmogram for Minimal Contact Measurement of Blood Pressure Based on a Body Weight-Fat Scale
Electronic health (eHealth) is a strategy to improve the physical and mental condition of a human, collecting daily physiological data and information from digital apparatuses. Body weight and blood pressure (BP) are the most popular and important physiological data. The goal of this study is to dev...
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| description | Electronic health (eHealth) is a strategy to improve the physical and mental condition of a human, collecting daily physiological data and information from digital apparatuses. Body weight and blood pressure (BP) are the most popular and important physiological data. The goal of this study is to develop a minimal contact BP measurement method based on a commercial body weight-fat scale, capturing biometrics when users stand on it. The pulse transit time (PTT) is extracted from the ballistocardiogram (BCG) and impedance plethysmogram (IPG), measured by four strain gauges and four footpads of a commercial body weight-fat scale. Cuffless BP measurement using the electrocardiogram (ECG) and photoplethysmogram (PPG) serves as the reference method. The BP measured by a commercial BP monitor is considered the ground truth. Twenty subjects participated in this study. By the proposed model, the root-mean-square errors and correlation coefficients (<i>r</i><sup>2</sup>s) of estimated systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure are 7.3 ± 2.1 mmHg and 4.5 ± 1.8 mmHg, and 0.570 ± 0.205 and 0.284 ± 0.166, respectively. This accuracy level achieves the C grade of the corresponding IEEE standard. Thus, the proposed method has the potential benefit for eHealth monitoring in daily application. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-55cd87ef7c3a43cfa1fd6a420db9d83a2023-11-16T23:13:15ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202023-02-01234231810.3390/s23042318Using Ballistocardiogram and Impedance Plethysmogram for Minimal Contact Measurement of Blood Pressure Based on a Body Weight-Fat ScaleShing-Hong Liu0Yan-Rong Wu1Wenxi Chen2Chun-Hung Su3Chiun-Li Chin4Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung City 41349, TaiwanDepartment of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung City 41349, TaiwanBiomedical Information Engineering Laboratory, The University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu City 965-8580, JapanInstitute of Medicine, School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung City 40201, TaiwanDepartment of Medical Informatics, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung City 40201, TaiwanElectronic health (eHealth) is a strategy to improve the physical and mental condition of a human, collecting daily physiological data and information from digital apparatuses. Body weight and blood pressure (BP) are the most popular and important physiological data. The goal of this study is to develop a minimal contact BP measurement method based on a commercial body weight-fat scale, capturing biometrics when users stand on it. The pulse transit time (PTT) is extracted from the ballistocardiogram (BCG) and impedance plethysmogram (IPG), measured by four strain gauges and four footpads of a commercial body weight-fat scale. Cuffless BP measurement using the electrocardiogram (ECG) and photoplethysmogram (PPG) serves as the reference method. The BP measured by a commercial BP monitor is considered the ground truth. Twenty subjects participated in this study. By the proposed model, the root-mean-square errors and correlation coefficients (<i>r</i><sup>2</sup>s) of estimated systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure are 7.3 ± 2.1 mmHg and 4.5 ± 1.8 mmHg, and 0.570 ± 0.205 and 0.284 ± 0.166, respectively. This accuracy level achieves the C grade of the corresponding IEEE standard. Thus, the proposed method has the potential benefit for eHealth monitoring in daily application.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/4/2318ballistocardiogramimpedance plethysmogrampulse transit time (PTT)weight-fat scaleblood pressure |
| spellingShingle | Shing-Hong Liu Yan-Rong Wu Wenxi Chen Chun-Hung Su Chiun-Li Chin Using Ballistocardiogram and Impedance Plethysmogram for Minimal Contact Measurement of Blood Pressure Based on a Body Weight-Fat Scale Sensors ballistocardiogram impedance plethysmogram pulse transit time (PTT) weight-fat scale blood pressure |
| title | Using Ballistocardiogram and Impedance Plethysmogram for Minimal Contact Measurement of Blood Pressure Based on a Body Weight-Fat Scale |
| title_full | Using Ballistocardiogram and Impedance Plethysmogram for Minimal Contact Measurement of Blood Pressure Based on a Body Weight-Fat Scale |
| title_fullStr | Using Ballistocardiogram and Impedance Plethysmogram for Minimal Contact Measurement of Blood Pressure Based on a Body Weight-Fat Scale |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using Ballistocardiogram and Impedance Plethysmogram for Minimal Contact Measurement of Blood Pressure Based on a Body Weight-Fat Scale |
| title_short | Using Ballistocardiogram and Impedance Plethysmogram for Minimal Contact Measurement of Blood Pressure Based on a Body Weight-Fat Scale |
| title_sort | using ballistocardiogram and impedance plethysmogram for minimal contact measurement of blood pressure based on a body weight fat scale |
| topic | ballistocardiogram impedance plethysmogram pulse transit time (PTT) weight-fat scale blood pressure |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/4/2318 |
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