Key result
The UTransBPNet deep learning model achieved mean absolute differences for systolic and diastolic blood pressure of 4.38 and 2.25 mmHg, respectively, demonstrating accurate cuffless BP estimation.
Why the study?
Existing cuffless blood pressure monitoring models suffer from inaccurate modeling under activities, lacking appropriate validation with sufficient intra-individual variations or showing suboptimal accuracy during activities.
Does the UTransBPNet deep learning model accurately estimate and track intra-individual cuffless blood pressure changes under activities?
Does the UTransBPNet deep learning model accurately estimate and track intra-individual cuffless blood pressure changes under activities?
The UTransBPNet deep learning model demonstrates high accuracy and strong tracking capability for cuffless blood pressure estimation during daily activities.
Supports cuffless BP tracking in daily activities; leaves open prospective validation before clinical use.
Cuffless blood pressure (BP) monitoring has gained great attention in the past twenty years considering its significant benefits in cardiovascular healthcare. However, the main challenge of this technology is the inaccurate BP modeling under activities, i.e., existing work have either been inappropriately validated with sufficient intra-individual BP variations, or did not show promising estimation accuracy under activities. In this study, a novel deep learning model UTransBPNet , featured in short- and long-range feature representation, is proposed aiming to improve the estimation accuracy and tracking capability of intra-individual BP changes under activities. The model performance was comprehensively evaluated in three different datasets, i.e., one public dataset (Dataset_MIMIC) and two datasets under daily activities (Dataset_Drink and Dataset_Exercise). Under subject-independent validation, the model achieved state-of-the-art performance in the Dataset_MIMIC, with the mean absolute differences (MADs) for systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP) of 4.38 and 2.25 mmHg, respectively. In addition, the model achieved strong tracking capability of intra-individual BP variations under activities, with the individual Pearson’ correlation coefficients for SBP and DBP of 0.61±0.17 and 0.62±0.13 (Dataset_Drink), 0.82±0.11 and 0.72±0.18 (Dataset_Exercise), respectively. Moreover, this study for the first time tested the generalization capability across different activities, and showed that with small-sized scenario-specific data for finetuning, our model showed good cross-scenario generalization capability which however degraded significantly when there are differences in the BP distribution and variation patterns between the datasets. In conclusion, UTransBPNet is generally a very promising deep learning model for accurate cuffless BP estimation and tracking BP changes. Future work should further investigate the influence of BP distribution and variation patterns on the generalization capability for building effective training dataset.
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Zheng et al. (2023) studied Blood pressure monitoring. UTransBPNet deep learning model was evaluated on Mean absolute differences (MADs) for systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP). The UTransBPNet deep learning model achieved mean absolute differences for systolic and diastolic blood pressure of 4.38 and 2.25 mmHg, respectively, demonstrating accurate cuffless BP estimation.
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