Novel Blood Pressure Waveform Reconstruction from Photoplethysmography using Cycle Generative Adversarial Networks

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2022 Jul:2022:1906-1909. doi: 10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9871962.

Abstract

Continuous monitoring of blood pressure (BP) can help individuals manage their chronic diseases such as hypertension, requiring non-invasive measurement methods in free-living conditions. Recent approaches fuse Photoplethys-mograph (PPG) and electrocardiographic (ECG) signals using different machine and deep learning approaches to non-invasively estimate BP; however, they fail to reconstruct the complete signal, leading to less accurate models. In this paper, we propose a cycle generative adversarial network (CycleGAN) based approach to extract a BP signal known as ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) from a clean PPG signal. Our approach uses a cycle generative adversarial network that extends the GAN architecture for domain translation, and outperforms state-of-the-art approaches by up to 2× in BP estimation.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Blood Pressure
  • Blood Pressure Determination
  • Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory
  • Humans
  • Hypertension* / diagnosis
  • Photoplethysmography* / methods