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Transforming Cardiovascular Health: a Transformer-Based Approach to Continuous, Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Estimation via Radar Sensing

Vysotskaya N, Maul N, Fusco A, Hazra S, Harnisch J, Arias Vergara T, Maier A (2024)

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Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2024

Publisher: IEEE

City/Town: New York City

Conference Proceedings Title: ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

Event location: Seoul

DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446988

Abstract

Hypertension is considered to be one of the most critical risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. As such, continuous, accurate and non-invasive monitoring of blood pressure (BP) is of utmost importance and research on such approaches is gaining momentum. In this study, we propose a novel transformer-based model architecture that leverages historic pressure wave information for accurate blood pressure regression. We achieve remarkable results that satisfy both the British Hypertension Society (BHS) and the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) blood pressure monitoring standards, with 97% of errors less than 5mmHg and 1.02 ± 1.77mmHg (mean absolute error ± standard deviation) accuracy for systolic (SBP), and 93% and 1.57 ± 2.36mmHg for diastolic BP (DBP). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first approach that utilizes transformers for BP regression and the first radar approach to satisfy BP standards, demonstrating the predictive power of the proposed model and the suitability of radar for the task.

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APA:

Vysotskaya, N., Maul, N., Fusco, A., Hazra, S., Harnisch, J., Arias Vergara, T., & Maier, A. (2024). Transforming Cardiovascular Health: a Transformer-Based Approach to Continuous, Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Estimation via Radar Sensing. In ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Seoul, KR: New York City: IEEE.

MLA:

Vysotskaya, Nastassia, et al. "Transforming Cardiovascular Health: a Transformer-Based Approach to Continuous, Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Estimation via Radar Sensing." Proceedings of the ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Seoul New York City: IEEE, 2024.

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