Cuffless differential blood pressure estimation using smartphones achieved 95-100% accuracy compared to a commercial blood pressure meter.
Does cuffless differential blood pressure estimation using smart phones accurately measure blood pressure compared to a commercial blood pressure meter?
Smartphone-based cuffless blood pressure estimation using built-in cameras and microphones achieved 95-100% accuracy compared to commercial meters, offering a potentially accessible tool for vital sign monitoring.
Effect estimate: 95-100% accuracy
Smart phones today have become increasingly popular with the general public for their diverse functionalities such as navigation, social networking, and multimedia facilities. These phones are equipped with high-end processors, high-resolution cameras, and built-in sensors such as accelerometer, orientation-sensor, and light-sensor. According to comScore survey, 26.2% of U.S. adults use smart phones in their daily lives. Motivated by this statistic and the diverse capability of smart phones, we focus on utilizing them for biomedical applications. We present a new application of the smart phone with its built-in camera and microphone replacing the traditional stethoscope and cuff-based measurement technique, to quantify vital signs such as heart rate and blood pressure. We propose two differential blood pressure estimating techniques using the heartbeat and pulse data. The first method uses two smart phones whereas the second method replaces one of the phones with a customized external microphone. We estimate the systolic and diastolic pressure in the two techniques by computing the pulse pressure and the stroke volume from the data recorded. By comparing the estimated blood pressure values with those measured using a commercial blood pressure meter, we obtained encouraging results of 95-100% accuracy.
Chandrasekaran et al. (Wed,) conducted a other in Blood pressure estimation. Cuffless differential blood pressure estimation using smart phones vs. Commercial blood pressure meter was evaluated on Accuracy of estimated blood pressure values (95-100% accuracy). Cuffless differential blood pressure estimation using smartphones achieved 95-100% accuracy compared to a commercial blood pressure meter.