Personalized Calibration and Hybrid Feature Fusion for Continuous Blood Pressure Estimation Using PPG and ECG Signals
Zichuan Zhang, Peng Qu, Hong Tang (Dalian University of Technology)
Sensors· 2026
Summary
Handcrafted PTT/HRV/PPG-morphology features + masked-reconstruction SSL embeddings + subject prior BP (alpha-weighted base BP from the earliest calibration file) → XGBoost. MAE 7.25/3.98 (private set) and 7.85/4.02 mmHg (UCI). Small-sample feasibility per the authors.
Key facts
- Form Factor
- clinical_finger
- License
- Not stated
Reported benchmarks
Cuffless blood pressure
uci-bp · MAE (mmHg) ↓
#2 of 3
7.85 / 4.02
PPG+ECG, base-BP calibration; split unstated (abstract)
Updated: Oct 11, 2026
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