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TRCCBP: Transformer Network for Radar-Based Contactless Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring.

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This study introduces a novel Transformer network for radar-based contactless continuous blood pressure monitoring (TRCCBP). TRCCBP significantly improves accuracy in estimating diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and systolic blood pressure (SBP) compared to existing methods.

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Area of Science:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Signal Processing
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Contactless continuous blood pressure (BP) monitoring is crucial for healthcare.
  • Existing radar-based methods struggle with signal distortion from movement and breathing, limiting accuracy.
  • Manual feature extraction in pulse-wave signals has performance limitations for BP estimation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel Transformer network for radar-based contactless continuous blood pressure monitoring (TRCCBP).
  • To enhance the accuracy and robustness of BP estimation from radar signals.
  • To address the limitations of manual feature extraction and signal distortion in continuous BP monitoring.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a heartbeat signal-guided method for pure pulse-wave signal extraction.
  • Designed a Transformer network incorporating multi-scale convolutional layers, GRU, and multi-head attention for BP estimation.
  • Utilized a radar signal dataset from both indoor and real medical environments for evaluation.

Main Results:

  • TRCCBP achieved average accuracies of 4.49 mmHg for DBP and 4.73 mmHg for SBP.
  • Demonstrated significant improvements over state-of-the-art methods, with BP accuracy enhanced by 12.36 mmHg (DBP) and 8.80 mmHg (SBP).
  • The proposed method shows high performance in both controlled and real-world scenarios.

Conclusions:

  • TRCCBP offers a robust and accurate solution for contactless continuous blood pressure monitoring using radar signals.
  • The advanced deep learning architecture effectively captures temporal characteristics for precise BP estimation.
  • Open-sourcing the code and dataset facilitates further research and development in this field.