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Area of Science:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Materials Science
  • Wearable Technology

Background:

  • Continuous blood pressure monitoring is crucial for managing cardiovascular health.
  • Existing methods for blood pressure measurement can be invasive or intermittent.
  • Development of accurate, noninvasive, and continuous monitoring solutions is highly desirable.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and characterize a novel pressure-sensing array for noninvasive continuous blood pulse-wave monitoring.
  • To investigate the use of machine learning algorithms for estimating systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) from pulse-wave signals.
  • To evaluate the performance of different machine learning models in predicting blood pressure.

Main Methods:

  • Fabrication of a pressure-sensing array using a conductive polymer film with microdome structures on a flexible Parylene C substrate.
  • Integration of three pressure-sensing elements in a linear array for pulse-wave measurement.
  • Application of machine learning algorithms, including Random Forest Regression (RFR), Gradient-Boosting Regression (GBR), and Adaptive Boosting Regression (ABR), for blood pressure estimation.

Main Results:

  • The developed pressure-sensing array demonstrated high sensitivity (-0.533 kPa⁻¹) and a fast dynamic response.
  • The RFR-based machine learning model achieved the highest accuracy in estimating blood pressure.
  • Coefficients of determination (R²) were 0.871 for SBP and 0.794 for DBP using the RFR model.

Conclusions:

  • The developed pressure-sensing array shows significant potential for noninvasive, continuous blood pulse-wave monitoring.
  • Machine learning, particularly RFR, effectively estimates SBP and DBP from measured pulse-wave signals.
  • This technology offers a promising advancement for remote and long-term cardiovascular health assessment.