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  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Medical Imaging

Background:

  • Traditional cuffless blood pressure (BP) estimation relies on multiple physiological signals (e.g., ECG, PPG) from different body sites, posing challenges due to noise and complexity.
  • Existing methods like pulse transit time (PTT) and pulse arrival time (PAT) show correlation with BP but are limited by multi-site signal acquisition and noise susceptibility.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an innovative, AI-driven framework for cuffless BP estimation using only single-site photoplethysmography (PPG) signals.
  • To enhance BP estimation accuracy and clinical reliability by leveraging advanced AI and computer vision techniques on PPG signal derivatives.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized images of PPG signals and their first (vPPG) and second (aPPG) derivatives for BP estimation.
  • Employed ResNet-50 for feature extraction from PPG, vPPG, and aPPG images, identifying BP-correlated regions.
  • Applied a multi-head cross-attention (MHCA) mechanism to refine features and improve cross-modal information exchange.

Main Results:

  • The proposed framework demonstrated superior performance in BP estimation compared to traditional PAT and PTT-based methods across three distinct datasets.
  • Validated clinical reliability by adhering to stringent medical standards from the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) and the British Hypertension Society (BHS).

Conclusions:

  • The AI-powered framework offers a practical and accurate advancement in non-invasive BP monitoring by requiring only single-site PPG signals.
  • This approach overcomes limitations of traditional methods, paving the way for more accessible and reliable BP monitoring solutions.