Non-Invasive Estimation of Blood Pressure through Genetic Programming - Preliminary Results

Giovanna Sannino, Ivanoe De Falco, Giuseppe De Pietro

2015

Abstract

The hypothesis underlying this paper is that a nonlinear relationship exists between Electrocardiography (ECG) and Heart Related Variability (HRV) parameters, plethysmography (PPG), and blood pressure (BP) values. If this hypothesis is true, rather than continuously measuring the patient’s BP, a wearable wireless PPG sensor can be applied to patient’s finger, an ECG sensor to his/her chest, HRV parameter values can be computed and, through regression, both systolic and diastolic BP values can be indirectly measured. Genetic Programming (GP) automatically both evolves the structure of the mathematical model and finds the most important parameters in it. Therefore, it is perfectly suited to perform regression task. As far as it can be found in the scientific literature of this field, until now nobody has ever investigated the use of GP to relate parameters derived from HRV analysis and PPG to BP values. Therefore, in this paper we have carried out preliminary experiments on the use of GP in facing this regression task. GP has been able to find a mathematical model expressing a nonlinear relationship between heart activity, and thus ECG and HRV parameters, PPG and BP values. The approximation error involved by the use of this method is lower than 2 mmHg for both systolic and diastolic BP values.

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Sannino G., De Falco I. and De Pietro G. (2015). Non-Invasive Estimation of Blood Pressure through Genetic Programming - Preliminary Results . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: SmartMedDev, (BIOSTEC 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-071-0, pages 241-249. DOI: 10.5220/0005318002410249


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@conference{smartmeddev15,
author={Giovanna Sannino and Ivanoe De Falco and Giuseppe De Pietro},
title={Non-Invasive Estimation of Blood Pressure through Genetic Programming - Preliminary Results},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: SmartMedDev, (BIOSTEC 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={241-249},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005318002410249},
isbn={978-989-758-071-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: SmartMedDev, (BIOSTEC 2015)
TI - Non-Invasive Estimation of Blood Pressure through Genetic Programming - Preliminary Results
SN - 978-989-758-071-0
AU - Sannino G.
AU - De Falco I.
AU - De Pietro G.
PY - 2015
SP - 241
EP - 249
DO - 10.5220/0005318002410249