Summary of Pitn: Physics-informed Temporal Networks For Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation, by Rui Wang et al.
PITN: Physics-Informed Temporal Networks for Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation
by Rui Wang, Mengshi Qi, Yingxia Shao, Anfu Zhou, Huadong Ma
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Signal Processing (eess.SP)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel approach to monitoring blood pressure using non-invasive sensors, which is essential for providing comfortable user experiences in smart wearables. The current methods rely on a significant amount of realistic data to train individual models for each subject, which can be invasive or obtrusive. To address this challenge, the authors introduce a physics-informed temporal network (PITN) that combines adversarial contrastive learning and physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). This approach enables precise blood pressure estimation with limited data by enhancing PINNs with temporal blocks for modeling cardiovascular cycles and capturing temporal variations. The PITN also employs adversarial training to generate extra physiological time series data, improving its robustness in the face of sparse subject-specific training data. Furthermore, contrastive learning is used to capture discriminative variations of cardiovascular physiologic phenomena. Experiments on three datasets demonstrate the superiority and effectiveness of the proposed method over previous state-of-the-art approaches. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper aims to solve a problem with monitoring blood pressure using sensors that are comfortable for people to wear. Right now, it’s hard to get enough data to train these sensors because getting accurate measurements is often invasive or uncomfortable. The authors created a new way to use sensors and machine learning to estimate blood pressure with just a little bit of data. They used a special kind of artificial intelligence called physics-informed neural networks that can learn about the patterns in how people’s hearts beat and how their blood pressure changes over time. This helps the sensors make more accurate predictions. The authors also used another technique called adversarial contrastive learning to help the sensors be better at making predictions even when they don’t have a lot of data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning » Time series
