Title
Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring with Multi-Modal In-Ear Sensing
Abstract
Continuous blood pressure monitoring is the key to mitigate significant risks for stroke, heart failure and coronary artery disease. Current gold-standard blood pressure devices cause discomfort and interfere with users’ activities. This paper explores an earable system, which continuously monitors users’ blood pressure from the ear. We propose a measurement technique based on the vascular transit time which utilises the time difference between the S1 heart sound and the PPG upstroke in one pulse cycle. We develop a multi-modal sensing hardware and processing pipeline and we evaluate it with 10 participants showing average errors in line with the range recommended by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation: 4.07 mmHg for systolic and 5.61 mmHg for diastolic blood pressure.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/ICASSP43922.2022.9747661
ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Blood pressure,heart sounds,in-ear micro-phone (in-ear PCG),photoplethysmography (PPG),cuffless
Conference
1520-6149
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-6654-0541-6
0
0.34
References 
Authors
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hoang Truong100.34
Alessandro Montanari200.34
Fahim Kawsar390980.24