Using a Bodily Weight-Fat Scale for Cuffless Blood Pressure Measurement Based on the Edge Computing System
Shing-Hong Liu, Bo-Yan Wu, Xin Zhu, Chiun-Li Chin, Paolo Gastaldo, Nguyen Gia Tuan · 2024
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Description
Shing-Hong Liu and co-authors turn a bathroom scale into a blood pressure monitor in a 2024 paper. Daily pressure checks matter for people with heart and vessel disease, kidney disease, and diabetes. Cuffless methods promise comfort, and a scale already gathers two useful signals while a person stands on it.
The scale's home-built circuits read a ballistocardiogram, the body's recoil from each heartbeat, and an impedance signal from the feet. Filters clean the traces, short segments are cut, and a pulse transit time is pulled from each. An XGBoost model then maps timing features to pressure values. The model runs on a small edge board in real time, with accuracy close to a server version. The team frames the scale as a painless daily check for home use.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Shing-Hong Liu, Bo-Yan Wu, Xin Zhu, Chiun-Li Chin, Paolo Gastaldo, Nguyen Gia Tuan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |