Arterial Blood Pressure Estimation Method from Electrocardiogram Signals using U-Net.

Abstract

Previous works proposed deep learning models to estimate blood pressure from electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. However, they can only estimate max, min, and mean arterial blood pressures and cannot estimate arterial blood pressure (ABP). This paper presents the ABP estimation method from ECG signals using the deep learning model of U-Net. Through the performance evaluation with signals of about 185 hours, we observed that the proposed method estimated ABP with high accuracy. Furthermore, the accuracies of the calculated max, min, and mean ABPs were comparable to those in the previous works, even though our method also estimated ABP. In the end, we discussed the subject-overfitting problem and future work toward practical use of daily blood pressure monitoring.