title: Experimental feasibility study of estimation of the normalized central blood pressure waveform from radial photoplethysmogram.
abstract: The feasibility of a novel system to reliably estimate the normalized central blood pressure (CBPN) from the radial photoplethysmogram (PPG) is investigated. Right-wrist radial blood pressure and left-wrist PPG were simultaneously recorded in five different days. An industry-standard applanation tonometer was employed for recording radial blood pressure. The CBP waveform was amplitude-normalized to determine CBPN. A total of fifteen second-order autoregressive models with exogenous input were investigated using system identification techniques. Among these 15 models, the model producing the lowest coefficient of variation (CV) of the fitness during the five days was selected as the reference model. Results show that the proposed model is able to faithfully reproduce CBPN (mean fitness = 85.2% ± 2.5%) from the radial PPG for all 15 segments during the five recording days. The low CV value of 3.35% suggests a stable model valid for different recording days.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) School of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran.
authors.forename: Edmond
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Zahedi
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM).
authors.forename: Vahid
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sohani
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM).
authors.forename: M A Mohd
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Ali
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM).
authors.forename: Kalaivani
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chellappan
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM).
authors.forename: Gan Kok
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Beng
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination / Q000379:methods*; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular; D017156:Photoplethysmography / Q000379:methods*; D017534:Radial Artery / Q000502:physiology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D014953:Wrist / Q000502:physiology
keywords: central blood pressure; dynamic linear model; radial photoplethsymography; system identification