Construction of an individual model for estimating blood pressure using independent components of facial skin temperature considering time variation
Open Access
Abstract: The objective of this study was to construct an individual model for estimating blood pressure (BP) using independent components of facial skin temperature considering time variation. In our previous study, an individual model was constructed for estimating BP by applying independent component analysis to facial skin temperature of each subject. However, in this previous study, time variations in facial skin temperature were not considered. Facial skin temperature is assumed to be related to blood flow over time as blood helps in transporting heat in the body. Therefore, the accuracy of the BP estimation model can be expected to improve if the variation of facial skin temperature caused by blood flow over time considered in addition to only the facial skin temperature. Consequently, the accuracy of the proposed model with the aforementioned considerations was found to be better than that of without these considerations. Therefore, the BP was accurately estimated using the proposed approach.

