A Unified Approach to Wearable Ballistocardiogram Gating and Wave Localization

OBJECTIVE Toward the ultimate goal of cuff-less blood pressure (BP) trend tracking via pulse transit time (PTT) using wearable ballistocardiogram (BCG) signals, we present a unified approach to the gating of wearable BCG and the localization of wearable BCG waves. METHODS We present a unified approach to localize wearable BCG waves suited to various gating and localization reference signals. Our approach gates individual wearable BCG beats and identifies candidate waves in each wearable BCG beat using a fiducial point in a reference signal, and exploits a pre-specified probability distribution of the time interval between the BCG wave and the fiducial point in the reference signal to accurately localize the wave in each wearable BCG beat. We tested the validity of our approach using experimental data collected from 17 healthy volunteers. RESULTS We showed that our approach could localize the J wave in the wearable wrist BCG accurately with both the electrocardiogram (ECG) and the wearable wrist photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals as reference, and that the wrist BCG-PPG PTT thus derived exhibited high correlation to BP. CONCLUSION We demonstrated the proof-of-concept of a unified approach to localize wearable BCG waves suited to various gating and localization reference signals compatible with wearable measurement. SIGNIFICANCE Prior work using the BCG itself or the ECG to gate the BCG beats and localize the waves to compute PTT are not ideally suited to the wearable BCG. Our approach may foster the development of cuff-less BP monitoring technologies based on the wearable BCG.

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