Noninvasive estimation of aortic pressure waveform based on simplified Kalman filter and dual peripheral artery pressure waveforms

Wenyan Liu, Shuo Du, Shuran Zhou, Tiemin Mei, Yuelan Zhang, Guozhe Sun, Shuang Song, Lisheng Xu, Yudong Yao, Stephen E. Greenwald

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Abstract

Background and Objective: Aortic pressure (Pa) is important for the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. However, its direct measurement is invasive, not risk-free, and relatively costly. In this paper, a new simplified Kalman filter (SKF) algorithm is employed for the reconstruction of the Pa waveform using dual peripheral artery pressure waveforms. Methods: Pa waveforms obtained in a previous study were collected from 25 patients. Simultaneously, radial and femoral pressure waveforms were generated from two simulation experiments, using transfer functions. In the first, the transfer function is a known finite impulse response; and in the second, it is derived from a tube-load model. To analyze the performance of the proposed SKF algorithm, variable amounts of noise were added to the observed output signal, to give a range of signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). Additionally, central aortic, brachial and femoral pressure waveforms were simultaneously collected from 2 Sprague-Dawley rats and the measured and reconstructed Pa waveforms were compared. Results: The proposed SKF algorithm outperforms canonical correlation analysis (CCA), which is the current state-of-the-art blind system identification method for the non-invasive estimation of central aortic blood pressure. It is also shown that the proposed SKF algorithm is more noise-tolerant than the CCA algorithm over a wide range of SNRs. Conclusion: The simulations and animal experiments illustrate that the proposed SKF algorithm is accurate and stable in the face of low SNRs. Improved methods for estimating central blood pressure as a measure of cardiac load adds to their value as a prognostic and diagnostic tool.

Original languageEnglish
Article number106760
JournalComputer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Volume219
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2022

Keywords

  • Aortic pressure
  • Canonical correlation analysis
  • Noise-tolerance
  • Peripheral artery pressure
  • Signal-to-noise ratio
  • Simplified Kalman filter

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