Blood pressure measuring method and system

• US 9,922,420 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2015
• Issued: 03/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Wang, Xin, Han, Xuelin, Jin, Xiaoli
• Primary Examiner(s): Bayat, Ali
• Application Number:
  US15/100,480
• Publication Number:
  US 20170039702A1
• Time in Patent Office: 903 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0077 Devices for viewing the surface of the body, e.g. camera, magnifying lens
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02125 of pulse wave propagation time
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10016 Video; Image sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30076 Plethysmography
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0012 Biomedical image inspection
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0016 involving temporal comparison

Abstract

A blood pressure measuring method and system. The method includes: obtaining at least one video that captures a first body area and a second body area of a testee; extracting multiple gray scale values for corresponding images that capture the first body area and multiple gray scale values for corresponding images that capture the second body area; drawing a pulse-wave waveform of the first body area based on the multiple gray scale values of the first body area, and drawing a pulse-wave waveform of the second body area based on the multiple gray scale values of the second body area; determining a pulse-wave propagation time based on the pulse-wave waveform of the first body area and the pulse-wave waveform of the second body area; and obtaining a blood pressure value of the testee based on a corresponding relation between the pulse-wave propagation time and blood pressure.

Claims

1. A blood pressure measuring method, comprising:

obtaining at least one video that captures a first body area and a second body area of a testee, wherein each video from the at least one video includes a plurality of frames;

extracting, from the frames of the at least one video, a plurality of gray scale values for corresponding images that capture the first body area and a plurality of gray scale values for corresponding images that capture the second body area;

drawing a pulse-wave waveform of the first body area based on the plurality of gray scale values for the corresponding images of the first body area, and drawing a pulse-wave waveform of the second body area based on the plurality of gray scale values for the corresponding images of the second body area;

determining a pulse-wave propagation time based on the pulse-wave waveform of the first body area and the pulse-wave waveform of the second body area; and

obtaining a blood pressure value of the testee based on a corresponding relation between the pulse-wave propagation time and blood pressure,

wherein extracting, from the frames of the at least one video, the plurality of gray scale values for corresponding images that capture the first body area and the plurality of gray scale values for corresponding images that capture the second body area, includes;

identifying the corresponding images of the first body area and the corresponding images of the second body area from frames of the at least one video; and

extracting a plurality of gray scale values of a red channel signal in the corresponding images of the first body a plurality of gray scale values of the red channel signal in the corresponding images of the second body area from the frames of the at least one video.

2. The blood pressure measuring method according to claim 1, wherein:

the at least one video includes one video; and

obtaining at least one video that captures the first body area and the second body area of the testee includes;

filming areas including face and a hand of the testee using an imaging device to generate the video.

3. The blood pressure measuring method according to claim 1, wherein:

the at least one video includes a first video and a second video; and

obtaining at least one video that captures the first body area and the second body area of the testee includes;

filming the first body area of the testee using an imaging device to generate the first video, and simultaneously filming the second body area of the testee using another imaging device to generate the second video.

4. The blood pressure measuring method according to claim 2, wherein the imaging device is a high-speed camera with an imaging frequency greater than or equal to 100 frames per second.

5. The blood pressure measuring method according to claim 1, wherein:

the at least one video includes one video; and

extracting, from the frames of the at least one video, the plurality of gray scale values for corresponding images that capture the first body area and the plurality of gray scale values for corresponding images that capture the second body area, further includes;

identifying a corresponding image of the first body area and a corresponding image of the second body area from each frame of the video; and

extracting a gray scale value of the red channel signal in the corresponding image of the first body area and a gray scale value of the red channel signal in the corresponding image of the second body area from each frame of the video.

6. The blood pressure measuring method according to claim 5, wherein:

each gray scale value of the corresponding image of the first body area is a gray scale value of any test point in the corresponding image of the first body area in one corresponding frame of the video, or a mean value of gray scale values of at least two test points in the corresponding image of the first body area; and

each gray scale value of the corresponding image of the second body area is a gray scale value of any test point in the corresponding image of the second body area in one corresponding frame of the video, or a mean value of gray scale values of at least two test points in the corresponding image of the second body area.

7. The blood pressure measuring method according to claim 1, wherein:

the at least one video includes a first video and a second video; and

extracting, from the frames of the at least one video, the plurality of gray scale values for corresponding images that capture the first body area and the plurality of gray scale values for corresponding images that capture the second body area, further includes;

identifying a corresponding image of the first body area in each frame of the first video and a corresponding image of the second body area in each frame of the second video; and

extracting a gray scale value of the red channel signal in the corresponding image of the first body area from each frame of the first video and a gray scale value of the red channel signal in the corresponding mage of the second body area from each frame of the second video.

8. The blood pressure measuring method according to claim 7, wherein:

each gray scale value of the corresponding image of the first body area is a gray scale value of any test point in the corresponding image of the first body area in one corresponding frame of the first video, or a mean value of gray scale values of at least two test points in the corresponding image of the first body area; and

each gray scale value of the corresponding image of the second body area is a gray scale value of any test point in the corresponding image of the second body area in one corresponding frame of the second video, or a mean value of gray scale values of at least two test points in the corresponding image of the second body area.

9. The blood pressure measuring method according to claim 1, wherein determining the pulse-wave propagation time based on the pulse-wave waveform of the first body area and the pulse-wave waveform of the second body area, includes:

selecting a wave crest in the pulse-wave waveform of the first body area, and selecting another wave crest, which has a shortest time interval to the wave crest, in the pulse-wave waveform of the second body area;

obtaining the time interval between the wave crest and the other wave crest;

obtaining a plurality of time intervals by repeating the above operations for a plurality of times, wherein wave crests in a plurality of successive cycles in the pulse-wave waveform of the first body area are selected in sequence in the repeating process; and

calculating a mean value of the plurality of time intervals as the pulse-wave propagation time.

10. The blood pressure measuring method according to claim 1, wherein the relation between the pulse-wave propagation time and the blood pressure is as follows:

11. The blood pressure measuring method according to claim 1, wherein after drawing the pulse-wave waveform of the first body area based on the plurality of gray scale values for the corresponding images of the first body area, and drawing the pulse-wave waveform of the second body area based on the plurality of gray scale values for the corresponding images of the second body area, the blood pressure measuring method further comprises:

filtering the pulse-wave waveform of the first body area and the pulse-wave waveform of the second body area.

12. A blood pressure measuring system, comprising:

a video capture device configured to obtain at least one video that captures a first body area and a second body area of a testee, wherein each video from the at least one video includes a plurality of frames;

a processor; and

a memory that stores instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including;

extracting, from the frames of the at least one video, a plurality of gray scale values for corresponding images that capture the first body area and a plurality of gray scale values for corresponding images that capture the second body area;

drawing a pulse-wave waveform of the first body area based on the plurality of gray scale values for the corresponding images of the first body area and to draw a pulse-wave waveform of the second body area based on the plurality of gray scale values for the corresponding images of the second body area;

determining a pulse-wave propagation time based on the pulse-wave waveform of the first body area and the pulse-wave waveform of the second body area; and

obtaining a blood pressure value of the testee based on a corresponding relation between the pulse-wave propagation time and blood pressure,

wherein the instructions when executed by the processor cause the processor to extract, from the frames of the at least one video, the plurality of gray scale values for corresponding images that capture the first body area and the plurality of gray scale values for corresponding images that capture the second body area at least by;

identifying the corresponding images of the first body area and the corresponding images of the second body area from frames of the at least one video; and

extracting a plurality of gray scale values of a red channel signal in the corresponding images of the first body area and a plurality of gray scale values of the red channel signal in the corresponding images of the second body area from the frames of the at least one video.

13. The blood pressure measuring system according to claim 12, wherein the at least one video includes one video;

and the video capture device is an imaging device which is configured to film areas including face and a hand of the testee to generate the video.

14. The blood pressure measuring system according to claim 13, wherein the imaging device is a high-speed camera with an imaging frequency greater than or equal to 100 frames per second.

15. The blood pressure measuring system according to claim 12, wherein the at least one video includes one video;

and the instructions when executed by the processor cause the processor to extract, from the frames of the at least ore video, the plurality of gray scale values for corresponding images that capture the first body area and the plurality of gray scale values for corresponding images that capture the second body area further at least by;

identifying a corresponding image of the first body area and a corresponding image of the second body area from each frame of the video; and

extracting a gray scale value of the red channel signal in the corresponding image of the first body area and a gray scale value of a the red channel signal in the corresponding image of the second body area from each frame of the video.

16. The blood pressure measuring system according to claim 12, wherein the at least one video includes a first video and a second video;

and the video capture device includes a first imaging device and a second imaging device which are configured to film the first body area and the second body area of the testee simultaneously to generate the first video and the second video, respectively.

17. The blood pressure measuring system according to claim 16, wherein wherein the instructions when executed by the processor cause the processor to extract, from the frames of the at least one video, the plurality of gray scale values for corresponding images that capture the first body area and the plurality of gray scale values for corresponding images that capture the second body area further at least by:

identifying a corresponding image of the first body area in each frame of the first video and a corresponding image of the second body area in each frame of the second video; and

extracting a gray scale value of the red channel signal in the corresponding image of the first body area from each frame of the first video and a gray scale value of the red channel signal in the corresponding mage of the second body area from each frame of the second video.

18. The blood pressure measuring system according to claim 17, wherein the instructions when executed by the processor cause the processor to extract, from the frames of the at least one video, the plurality of gray scale values for corresponding images that capture the first body area and the plurality of gray scale values for corresponding images that capture the second body area further at least by:

extracting a gray scale value of any test point in the corresponding image of the first body area from each frame of the first video to be the corresponding gray scale value of the corresponding image of the first body area, or extracting a mean value of gray scale values of at least two test points in the corresponding image of the first body area from each frame of the first video to be the corresponding gray scale value of the corresponding image of the first body area; and

extracting a gray scale value of any test point in the corresponding image of the second body area from each frame of the second video to be the corresponding gray scale value of the corresponding image of the second body area, or extracting a mean value of gray scale values of at least two test points in the corresponding image of the second body area from each frame of the second video to be the corresponding gray scale value of the corresponding image of the second body area.

19. The blood pressure measuring system according to claim 12, wherein the instructions when executed by the processor causes the processor to determine the pulse-wave propagation time based on the pulse-wave waveform of the first body area and the pulse-wave waveform of the second body area at least by:

selecting a wave crest in the pulse-wave waveform of the first body area, and selecting another wave crest, which has a shortest time interval to the wave crest, in the pulse-wave waveform of the second body area;

obtaining the time interval between the wave crest and the other wave crest;

obtaining a plurality of time intervals by repeating the above operations for a plurality of times, wherein wave crests in a plurality of successive cycles in the pulse-wave waveform of the first body area are selected in sequence in the repeating process; and

calculating a mean value of the plurality of time intervals as the pulse-wave propagation time.

20. The blood pressure measuring system according to claim 12, wherein the blood pressure measuring system further comprises a filtering device which is configured to filter the pulse-wave waveform of the first body area and the pulse-wave waveform of the second body area.