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Main Authors: Crandall, Henry, Schuessler, Tyler, Bělík, Filip, Fabregas, Albert, Stults, Barry M., Boyadzhiev, Alexandra, Zhang, Huanan, Wu, Jim S., Rodan, Aylin R., Juraschek, Stephen P., Mukkamala, Ramakrishna, Cheung, Alfred K., Drakos, Stavros G., Hohenegger, Christel, Osting, Braxton, Sanchez, Benjamin
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00081
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author Crandall, Henry
Schuessler, Tyler
Bělík, Filip
Fabregas, Albert
Stults, Barry M.
Boyadzhiev, Alexandra
Zhang, Huanan
Wu, Jim S.
Rodan, Aylin R.
Juraschek, Stephen P.
Mukkamala, Ramakrishna
Cheung, Alfred K.
Drakos, Stavros G.
Hohenegger, Christel
Osting, Braxton
Sanchez, Benjamin
author_facet Crandall, Henry
Schuessler, Tyler
Bělík, Filip
Fabregas, Albert
Stults, Barry M.
Boyadzhiev, Alexandra
Zhang, Huanan
Wu, Jim S.
Rodan, Aylin R.
Juraschek, Stephen P.
Mukkamala, Ramakrishna
Cheung, Alfred K.
Drakos, Stavros G.
Hohenegger, Christel
Osting, Braxton
Sanchez, Benjamin
contents Wearable technologies have the potential to transform ambulatory and at-home hemodynamic monitoring by providing continuous assessments of cardiovascular health metrics and guiding clinical management. However, existing cuffless wearable devices for blood pressure (BP) monitoring often rely on methods lacking theoretical foundations, such as pulse wave analysis or pulse arrival time, making them vulnerable to physiological and experimental confounders that undermine their accuracy and clinical utility. Here, we developed a smartwatch device with real-time electrical bioimpedance (BioZ) sensing for cuffless hemodynamic monitoring. We elucidate the biophysical relationship between BioZ and BP via a multiscale analytical and computational modeling framework, and identify physiological, anatomical, and experimental parameters that influence the pulsatile BioZ signal at the wrist. A signal-tagged physics-informed neural network incorporating fluid dynamics principles enables calibration-free estimation of BP and radial and axial blood velocity. We successfully tested our approach with healthy individuals at rest and after physical activity including physical and autonomic challenges, and with patients with hypertension and cardiovascular disease in outpatient and intensive care settings. Our findings demonstrate the feasibility of BioZ technology for cuffless BP and blood velocity monitoring, addressing critical limitations of existing cuffless technologies.
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spellingShingle Cuffless, calibration-free hemodynamic monitoring with physics-informed machine learning models
Crandall, Henry
Schuessler, Tyler
Bělík, Filip
Fabregas, Albert
Stults, Barry M.
Boyadzhiev, Alexandra
Zhang, Huanan
Wu, Jim S.
Rodan, Aylin R.
Juraschek, Stephen P.
Mukkamala, Ramakrishna
Cheung, Alfred K.
Drakos, Stavros G.
Hohenegger, Christel
Osting, Braxton
Sanchez, Benjamin
Medical Physics
Machine Learning
Wearable technologies have the potential to transform ambulatory and at-home hemodynamic monitoring by providing continuous assessments of cardiovascular health metrics and guiding clinical management. However, existing cuffless wearable devices for blood pressure (BP) monitoring often rely on methods lacking theoretical foundations, such as pulse wave analysis or pulse arrival time, making them vulnerable to physiological and experimental confounders that undermine their accuracy and clinical utility. Here, we developed a smartwatch device with real-time electrical bioimpedance (BioZ) sensing for cuffless hemodynamic monitoring. We elucidate the biophysical relationship between BioZ and BP via a multiscale analytical and computational modeling framework, and identify physiological, anatomical, and experimental parameters that influence the pulsatile BioZ signal at the wrist. A signal-tagged physics-informed neural network incorporating fluid dynamics principles enables calibration-free estimation of BP and radial and axial blood velocity. We successfully tested our approach with healthy individuals at rest and after physical activity including physical and autonomic challenges, and with patients with hypertension and cardiovascular disease in outpatient and intensive care settings. Our findings demonstrate the feasibility of BioZ technology for cuffless BP and blood velocity monitoring, addressing critical limitations of existing cuffless technologies.
title Cuffless, calibration-free hemodynamic monitoring with physics-informed machine learning models
topic Medical Physics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00081