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  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Health Informatics
  • Machine Learning

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  • Accurate blood pressure (BP) monitoring is crucial for managing cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and kidney disease, especially in elders.
  • Cuffless BP measurement technologies offer enhanced user comfort and convenience.
  • Ballistocardiogram (BCG) and impedance plethysmogram (IPG) are emerging physiological signals for cuffless BP estimation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate an edge computing system for real-time cuffless blood pressure measurement.
  • To integrate BCG and IPG signal acquisition, processing, feature extraction, and machine learning-based BP estimation.
  • To implement the system on an embedded platform (STM32F756ZG NUCLEO) for mobile health applications.

Main Methods:

  • BCG and IPG signals were acquired using a custom bodily weight-fat scale.
  • Signal processing involved filtering, segmentation, and extraction of pulse transit time (PTT).
  • An XGBoost machine learning model, with optimized hyperparameters for edge deployment, estimated BP using calibration-based and calibration-free features.

Main Results:

  • The edge computing system demonstrated low error rates for systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) estimation: 2.2 ± 10.9 mmHg and 1.87 ± 6.79 mmHg, respectively.
  • These results are comparable to server-based computing, indicating the feasibility of on-device BP measurement.
  • The system's performance validates its potential for integration into mobile health devices.

Conclusions:

  • Edge computing enables real-time, cuffless blood pressure measurement using BCG and IPG signals on embedded systems.
  • The proposed method enhances the practicality of bodily weight-fat scales for continuous BP monitoring.
  • This technology holds significant promise for advancing mobile health and remote patient care.