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13th International Symposium on Hysteresis Modeling and Micromagnetics (HMM 2023)
TU Wien, June 5-7, 2023
The biennial International Symposium on Hysteresis Modeling and Micromagnetics (HMM) is an interdisciplinary forum for discussion of the most recent advancements in the fields of hysteresis modeling and micromagnetics. It aims to bring together scientists with various backgrounds (e.g., mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and materials scientists) to exchange ideas and to present new approaches and results.
The 13th edition of HMM will take place from June 5 to June 7, 2023 at TU Wien (Vienna, Austria). Following the tradition of the symposium, the scientific program of HMM 2023 will consist of a single session with invited keynote lectures, contributed talks and posters (no parallel sessions). The working language of the conference is English. The local organizing committee and the scientific and program committee, in agreement with the HMM international steering committee, believe that an interdisciplinary forum like HMM should be held in person. Therefore, HMM 2023 is planned as a fully in-person event. The local organizing committee will constantly monitor the status of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated government regulations in order to ensure a safe in-person meeting.
The support of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) through the Special Research Program (SFB) Taming complexity in partial differential systems (grant F65) as well as of TU Wien and the Vienna Center for Partial Differential Equations is thankfully acknowledged.
HMM 2023 will cover contributions related (but not restricted) to the following topics:
- Mathematical modeling of hysteresis
- Preisach, Jiles-Atherton and vector hysteresis modeling
- Classical and quantum spin models, random-field models and frustrated magnetism
- Novel developments in micromagnetics, link to other physical models
- Magnetic excitations and solitons
- Ab-initio, atomistic and multiscale modeling
- Modeling of thermal effects in magnetism
- Modeling of magnetization dynamics and spintronics
- Modeling of individual magnetic nanostructures and their interactions
- Modeling of magnetic systems for technological and biomedical applications
- Mathematical and numerical analysis of partial differential equations with hysteresis
- Mathematical and numerical analysis of partial differential equations in micromagnetics
- Experimental studies and model validation
Local organizing committee
- Dirk Praetorius, TU Wien, Austria
- Michele Ruggeri, University of Strathclyde, UK
- Thomas Schrefl, University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria
- Dieter Suess, University of Vienna, Austria
Important dates
|Abstract submission opening
|January 16, 2023
|Abstract submission deadline
|February 28, 2023
|Registration opening
|March 1, 2023
|Notification of decision on abstracts
|March 15, 2023
|Registration deadline (early bird)
|March 31, 2023
|Registration deadline (standard)
|April 30, 2023
|June 5-7, 2023
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We have been made aware of very convincing scams. HMM participants may be contacted by email/phone by companies to arrange accommodation for the symposium or to pay the registration fee via PayPal. Please note that TU Wien is the only institution organizing HMM 2023 and no company has been authorized to arrange anything related to HMM. In particular, the HMM organizers will never contact you requesting credit card details or PayPal payments. If you are contacted by such companies, please let the organizers know as soon as possible.


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Mobile health diagnostics have been shown to be effective and scalable for chronic disease detection and management. By maximizing the smartphones' optics and computational power, they could allow assessment of physiological information from the morphology of pulse waves and thus estimate cuffless blood pressure (BP). We trained the parameters of an existing pulse wave analysis algorithm (oBPM), previously validated in anaesthesia on pulse oximeter signals, by collecting optical signals from 51 patients fingertips via a smartphone while simultaneously acquiring BP measurements through an arterial catheter. We then compared smartphone-based measurements obtained on 50 participants in an ambulatory setting via the OptiBP app against simultaneously acquired auscultatory systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and mean blood pressure (MBP) measurements. Patients were normotensive (70.0% for SBP versus 61.4% for DBP), hypertensive (17.1% vs. 13.6%) or hypotensive (12.9% vs. 25.0%). The difference in BP (mean ± standard deviation) between both methods were within the ISO 81,060–2:2018 standard for SBP (− 0.7 ± 7.7 mmHg), DBP (− 0.4 ± 4.5 mmHg) and MBP (− 0.6 ± 5.2 mmHg). These results demonstrate that BP can be measured with accuracy at the finger using the OptiBP smartphone app. This may become an important tool to detect hypertension in various settings, for example in low-income countries, where the availability of smartphones is high but access to health care is low.
High blood pressure (BP) remains the leading risk factor for death and disability in both high and low income countries1. Its complications are responsible for the deaths of approximately ten million people annually, a 50% increase over the estimates from 19902. By 2025, the number of people suffering from hypertension will reach 1.5 billion3. The impact of this disease represents a daunting burden to any healthcare system.
Epidemiological studies have shown that prevalence and control of hypertension plateaued since the mid-2000s in developed countries, while prevalence has increased in developing countries with low rates of awareness and control4,5. Early detection and prevention of the complications of hypertension are essential but depend on accessible and accurate measurements. A recent report from the National Health Service (NHS, England) stated that BP from only 60% of registered hypertensive patients was controlled6 and only 50% of those starting on a new antihypertensive medications were compliant 6 months later7. Issues such as device accessibility, poor patient compliance, physicians' inertia and the inability of healthcare systems to detect, manage and prevent cardiovascular diseases were among the consequences linked to those findings. The traditional healthcare model of hypertension management based on regular office BP measurements has been challenged, and new hypertension guidelines now strongly recommend the use of home and/or ambulatory BP monitoring for the diagnosis and follow-up of hypertensive patients, thereby motivating and empowering the patient and potentially increasing the frequency of BP measurement8,9.
Digital health approaches, and in particular mobile health (mHealth) diagnostics, have been shown to be effective, scalable and sustainable for chronic disease prevention and management10,11. Mobile phones represent a widespread, readily available device for mHealth. Worldwide, over one-third of consumers own a mobile phone12,13. If the accuracy of reliable smartphone-based blood pressure measurements was to be demonstrated, this would be a promising tool that could improve access to more populations, medical record keeping, analysis of blood pressure measurements for hypertension management as well as medication compliance and health education. Interest in "cuffless" BP measurement, using smartphones or wearable sensor technologies that estimate BP from photoplethysmograms (PPG) is rapidly increasing14. In particular, pulse wave analysis techniques15, which derive central blood pressure from the morphology of pulse waves in peripheral tissues, are a growing area of interest16. Recently, a first wrist-worn device using Pulse Wave Transit Time (PWTT) has obtained a 510(k) clearance by the US Food and Drug Administration for tracking changes in BP following a calibration process using an oscillometric BP monitor (https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf19/K190792.pdf, accessed December 10th 2019). However, none of the smartphone-based applications has yet been clinically validated or demonstrated to be accurate17.
The aim of this study was to assess the performance of a pulse wave analysis-based BP estimation technique18 (oBPM, optical blood pressure monitoring)—previously validated in anaesthesia on pulse oximeter signals19—applied to smartphone-derived PPG signals acquired via a dedicated smartphone app (OptiBP). This was accomplished by comparing in an ambulatory setting—using the published ISO 81,060–2:2018 standard20—the smartphone-derived BP estimates to simultaneously acquired reference systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and mean blood pressure (MBP) measurements obtained using the auscultatory method with a dual-head stethoscope.
The protocol consisted of two parts: a training part and a validation part. The training part was designed to collect optical signals via the embedded camera of a smartphone running a dedicated mobile app, while simultaneously acquiring invasive intra-arterial BP values. The purpose of this part was to train and further develop an existing algorithm19 (oBPM) originally designed to estimate BP values from transmission PPG signals18 to reflectance PPG signals acquired by a smartphone camera. The validation part was designed to assess the accuracy of the OptiBP smartphone app on patients using the trained algorithm compared with reference measurements acquired through the classic auscultatory method at the upper arm in an ambulatory setting. This clinical investigation was conducted in compliance with the European Directive 93/42/EEC on medical devices21, with international standards ISO 14,155:2011 and the Declaration of Helsinki. The protocol was designed in accordance with the AAMI/ESH/ISO consensus for the validation of BP measuring devices20.
Ethical consent and patient inclusion
The study was approved by the local ethics committee (Commission Cantonale d'éthique de la Recherche sur l'être humain, CH 1012 Lausanne Switzerland, CER-VD no. 2018-01656) and registered under number NCT03875248 at www.clinicaltrials.gov on March 14 2019.
For the training part, written informed consent was obtained from 51 patients aged 18 years or older, who were scheduled for elective surgery necessitating general anaesthesia and invasive arterial BP monitoring at CHUV (University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland) or HUG (Geneva University Hospital). Exclusion criteria were patient refusal, arrhythmia and inability to give informed consent.
For the validation part, written informed consent was obtained from 50 participants (hypertensive or not) aged 18 years or older and scheduled for an elective visit at the outpatient hypertension clinic at CHUV (University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland). Exclusion criteria were patient refusal, inability to give informed consent, dysrhythmia or an arterial disease leading to a SBP difference > 15 mmHg or DBP difference > 10 mmHg between arms20.
Methodology for training OptiBP
Anesthesia protocol and signal acquisition
On the day of surgery, patients were monitored according to the standards of our departments and connected to a Philips IntelliVue MP50 monitor (Philips, Amsterdam, the Netherlands). A 20-gauge, 4.5 cm length arterial catheter (BD FlowswitchTM, Becton–Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, USA) was inserted under local anaesthesia predominantly into the left or right radial artery. The transducer for the intra-arterial catheter was kept at the level of the left ventricle of the heart. A flush test was performed to rule out over- or under-damping22. The continuous invasive SBP, DBP, and MBP, were recorded before and during induction of general anaesthesia for one minute followed by an average per-patient duration of 20 min with the ixTrend express software version 2.1.0 (ixellence GmbH, Wildau, Germany) installed on a laptop computer connected to the monitor. Each minute of recording generated one average BP value. Simultaneously, a customized app installed on a Samsung Galaxy S7 (Samsung GEC, 26, Sangil-ro 6-gil, Gagdong-gu, Seoul, Korea) recorded a raw optical signal consisting of a sequence of images at 30 Hz. Each session encompassed 10 series of recordings of 1 min, each separated by a 1-min interval free of recording. The procedure included the positioning of the patient's middle or index finger on the phone camera lens (Fig. 1) and launching the application at the beginning of the protocol. A timestamp allowed simultaneous correlation of the smartphone acquired signals with the invasive measurements. General anaesthesia was induced and maintained with an infusion of propofol while intravenous analgesia was provided by boluses of fentanyl or continuous remifentanil, depending on the surgical intervention. The management of the anaesthesia was at the discretion of the anaesthesiologist.
Smartphone data processing and analysis
All smartphone data were analysed and post-processed offline using MATLAB (The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, USA). For each 1-min sequence of images acquired with the smartphone, a BP estimate (\({\mathrm{BP}}_{\mathrm{oBPM}}\)) was obtained in a fully automated manner via the oBPM algorithm18 as illustrated in Fig. 2A. As a first step, the pixels from the green channel of the central region of each image in the video sequence were averaged to obtain a PPG signal. Each pulse in the 1-min PPG signal was given a quality index according to its similarity to its neighbouring pulses, resulting in less weight given to pulses with aberrant morphologies. All pulses were then averaged to obtain a representative pulse wave shape. An acceptance criterion based on the average quality of the pulses and the waveform of the averaged pulse was computed, which allowed automatic rejection of average pulses with un-physiological morphology or those obtained from PPG signals with low quality pulses (e.g. in cases of excessive finger movement, poor positioning or excessive finger-camera pressure). Each accepted average waveform was passed through a bank of time-derivative filters, which allowed characterization of the morphological variations of the pulse at various time resolutions. A set of derivative-based features \(\mathbf{x}\) was extracted and non-linearly combined to obtain an uncalibrated estimate of BP, referred to as \({\mathrm{BP}}_{\mathrm{oBPM}}^{\mathrm{Uncal}}\). The oBPM algorithm can provide absolute values of BP changes around an arbitrary baseline value, but requires an initial calibration procedure to set this baseline value and thereby provide absolute BP estimates. Therefore, obtaining the final calibrated oBPM-derived BP estimate \({\mathrm{BP}}_{\mathrm{oBPM}}\) required applying a corrective calibration offset \(\widehat{\beta }\), such that \({\mathrm{BP}}_{\mathrm{oBPM}}={\mathrm{BP}}_{\mathrm{oBPM}}^{\mathrm{Uncal}}+\widehat{\beta }\). This calibration procedure will be further detailed in "Smartphone data processing and analysis"
Algorithm parameter training
The parameters \(\widehat{\theta }\) of the non-linear model applied to the feature set \(\mathbf{x}\) generated by the oBPM algorithm were trained using the data from the 51 patients obtained in the operating theatre OptiBP. This process is illustrated in Fig. 2B. Following ten 1-min recordings per patient, nine pairs of successive measurements were obtained for each patient. All pairs showing a significant change in BP in the invasive reference (\({\mathrm{BP}}_{\mathrm{Inv}}\)) data were selected. A change of at least 20% was considered significant23 (\(\Delta {\mathrm{BP}}_{\mathrm{Inv}}\left(n\right)\ge \pm 20 \%\), with \(\Delta {\mathrm{BP}}_{\mathrm{Inv}}\left(n\right)=100 \% \cdot \left[{\mathrm{BP}}_{\mathrm{Inv}}\left(n+1\right)-{\mathrm{BP}}_{\mathrm{Inv}}\left(n\right)\right]/ {\mathrm{BP}}_{\mathrm{Inv}}(n))\). Their corresponding oBPM-derived BP changes (\(\Delta {\mathrm{BP}}_{\mathrm{oBPM}}\)) were selected as well. By concatenating all selected BP changes \(\Delta {\mathrm{BP}}_{\mathrm{Inv}}\) and their corresponding \(\Delta {\mathrm{BP}}_{\mathrm{oBPM}}\) for all patients in vectors \({\varvec{U}}\) and \({\varvec{V}}\) respectively, the parameters \(\widehat{\theta }\) of the model were optimized in a least-square sense, i.e. by solving \(\widehat{\theta }={\underset{\theta }{\mathrm{argmin}} \Vert {\varvec{U}}-{\varvec{V}}\Vert }^{2}\). The thus-trained model was then applied to the validation dataset of the hypertensive unit OptiBP part.
Methodology for validating OptiBP
Hypertension unit protocol
For each measurement, auscultatory BP values were measured and optical signals were acquired simultaneously using the reference device on one arm and the test device on the fingertip of the opposite arm (same Samsung Galaxy S7 phone as for the training OptiBP part, which acquired the same raw optical signal using the same proprietary app). The reference device was a validated non-invasive (auscultatory) sphygmomanometer (A&D UM-101, A&D Company, Ltd., Toshima Ku, Tokyo, Japan), which was calibrated before the study, allowing intermittent BP measurements operated by two independent trained observers using a dual-head stethoscope. The two healthcare professionals formed a trained team that was validated before the onset of the study. The ISO specification requires the two observers to have a maximal difference in the measure of systolic and diastolic BP of 4 mmHg and successive recordings to have variations of at most 12 mmHg SBP and 8 mmHg DBP. In case of failure of the above, the measurements were discarded. The protocol included 7 sequential measurements of BP every 2 min. After four valid measurements, the devices were interchanged. The starting arm side for the reference reading was alternated between subjects: odd-numbered subjects started with the reference device on the right arm and even-numbered subjects on the left arm (Table 1).
The protocol was overseen by a supervisor who monitored the adequacy of reference and test device BP measurements, the agreement between the two observers, who were unaware of the magnitude or direction of their disagreement, and any other issue arising during the validation procedure. The supervisor reviewed each pair of test/reference BP measurements.
For both study parts, demographic values such as sex, age, height, weight and stage of hypertensive disease were documented, as well as optical signals, references and estimated BP values.
Smartphone data processing and analysis
The image acquisition by the smartphone and the post-processing of its data via the oBPM algorithm were identical to the training OptiBP part. The trained algorithm was applied as is on the data of the validation OptiBP part. Unreliable estimates were automatically rejected by the oBPM algorithm. A calibration procedure was then applied as explained thereafter and illustrated in Fig. 2C. The corrective offset \(\widehat{\beta }\) is computed during the calibration measurement for each patient by comparing the oBPM-derived BP estimate to its corresponding auscultatory-derived value and applying this correction to all following BP estimates. According to wave reflection theory24, the morphology of the waveform could be different from one arm to another as the path taken by the pulse is different, thus the calibration procedure was performed separately on each arm.
Statistical analysis
The accuracy of our approach to estimate absolute BP values was assessed by comparing the oBPM-derived SBP (SBPoBPM), DBP (DBPoBPM) and MBP (MBPoBPM) estimates to their corresponding auscultatory-derived reference values (SBPAusc, DBPAusc, MBPAusc). MBPAusc was estimated as 2/3 DBPAusc + 1/3 SBPAusc. We computed the mean and standard deviation (SD) of the estimation error both at a cohort-wise and patient-wise level to determine group and within-patient accuracy. We also computed the percentage errors in order to assess the performance of each pressure measurement (systolic, diastolic, and mean) independently of their absolute values. In the absence of standards applicable to our cuffless approach, we evaluated the performance of the smartphone-based BP estimations in an ambulatory setting using the standards of the ISO 81060–2:2018 norm25. This standard requires the mean value of the errors of the individual paired determinations of the device-under-test to be less than or equal to ± 5.0 mmHg with an experimental standard deviation (SD) no greater than 8.0 mmHg.
Dataset for training OptiBP
The demographics of the 51 patients used for training the algorithm are shown in Table 2 for the 26 males and 25 females. One patient had to be excluded due to a failed attempt to cannulate the radial artery. The distribution of the reference systolic BP training set consisted of 53 recordings (18.0%) higher than 140 mmHg, 148 (50.4%) between 100 to 140 mmHg and 93 (31.6%) below 100 mmHg while diastolic BP was higher than 80 mmHg in 19 (6.4%) recordings, between 60 to 80 mmHg in 111 (37.8%) and below 60 mmHg in 164 (55.8%) recordings.
Dataset for validating OptiBP
We report on the first 50 patients that were included between July 1 and September 30 2019 in the hypertensive unit validation part, including 16 males and 24 females. Data from 40 patients generated an adequate signal and allowed smartphone BP measurements. Their demographics and specifics are shown in Table 3. Hypertension had been diagnosed in 15 patients (37.5%) and qualified as pre-hypertension in 2 patients (13.3%), stage 1 hypertension in 7 (46.7%), stage 2 in 5 (33.3%) and stage 3 hypertension in 1 patient (6.7%). Dedicated hypertensive treatment was ongoing in 13 patients (86.7%).
Table 4 shows the distribution of their cuff-based blood pressure recordings with a majority of the blood pressure values within the non-hypertensive range (< 140/90 mmHg).
Of the 350 signals recorded (see Fig. 3 consort flow diagram), 133 were not eligible due to non ISO conformity (17) or technical issues (116) such as image instability related to excessive finger movement or pressure.
Forty patients generated 217 recordings, of which 76 were used to calibrate the optical signal and therefore were excluded from the analysis to avoid overfitting. One additional recording generated a non-physiological value and was automatically rejected.
Accuracy of OptiBP
A total of 140 BP values were generated with an overall performance of the smartphone blood pressure measurement compared to the manual auscultatory device detailed in Table 5 for the systolic, diastolic and mean arterial pressure.
The mean and SD of the error were of − 0.7 ± 7.7 mmHg for SBP, − 0.4 ± 4.5 mmHg for DBP and − 0.6 ± 5.2 mmHg for MBP and complied with the requirements of the ISO81060-2:2018 norm. Standardized Bland–Altman scatterplots are shown in Figs. 4, 5 and 6 for SBP, DBP, and MBP, respectively. The solid line represents the mean error (bias), whereas the dotted lines indicate the 95% confidence interval (mean ± 1.96 SD).
This study shows that our smartphone-based optical blood pressure measuring algorithm is accurate when compared to the reference auscultatory method in an office-based setting.
To the best of our knowledge, our smartphone OptiBP app is the first to fulfil the criteria of the ISO81060-2:2018 norm designed to validate cuff-based intermittent blood pressure measurements, without the need for additional hardware. Instant blood pressure (IBP; AuraLife, Newport Beach, CA) was a BP-measuring app that was available on the iTunes store from June 2014 through July 2015 and claimed to estimate BP by placing the smartphone on the chest while the user placed his right index finger over the smartphone's camera. The BP measurements of this popular app was demonstrated as highly inaccurate with a mean (standard deviation) absolute difference between IBP and the reference device to be 12.4 (10.5) mmHg for systolic BP and 10.1 (8.1) mmHg for diastolic BP17. Following this publication, the Federal Trade Commission pursued litigation against AuraLife and the app was removed from iTunes.
Kuwabara et al.26 demonstrated that a watch-based wearable monitor, consisting of an oscillometric cuff-based automatic BP monitor integrated in a wrist band, fulfilled the ISO81060-2:2013 validation criteria in a standard sitting position with the watch at heart level. Its small size and silent measurement functions were interesting advantages compared to existing cuff devices and would allow access to measure BP in specific situations and settings27. However, due to the automatic cuff-based BP measurement, the accuracy under real-world conditions and how it might be affected by body, palm position or wrist size must be assessed. Furthermore, it requires the acquisition of a specific device and might represent similar burdens as the automatic cuff, including discomfort and occlusive blood pressure measurement.
Watanabe et al.28 described a cuffless BP estimation device including a photoplethysmographic sensor, coupled to an algorithmic transformation of the optical signal, and used it on 35 patients. Changes in light absorption at the participant's right index correlated to changes in peripheral blood volume and were transformed by their algorithm into BP estimates after initial calibration. Although they were able to demonstrate agreement of their sensor assemblies coupled to an algorithm with standard cuff-based measurements under static and dynamic conditions, the applicability to a commercially available device is not yet realized and reproducibility has yet to be established in various settings. Based on the measurement of a pulse transit time from an electrocardiogram and a PPG signal at the fingertip, the Checkme Pro Health Monitor (Shenzen Viatom, China) has been compared with the measurement of SBP from a classic home BP monitor29. Although the device was complex to use and the success rate of the SBP measurement was low, it is noteworthy that participants indicated an increased willingness to take their BP measurement. The small study sample size and the restriction to the sole value of SBP limits its validity, particularly in young hypertensive patients30.
Transdermal optical imaging (TOI) allowing detection of facial blood flow changes with a smartphone camera in combination with advanced machine learning techniques has been shown to be capable of determining BP values31. This technology uses state-of-the-art remote PPG32 with extractions of raw signals and estimation of plethysmography signal (band pass filtering). Using a machine learning-based algorithm from a FDA-cleared BP measurement system, TOI extracts haemoglobin-rich signals that are recombined and linked to represent facial blood flow oscillations. BP was measured on normotensive patients in an experimental setting after an individual calibration. The system needs to be validated with changing blood pressures before its usefulness can be assessed.
Our research protocol was designed according to the ISO81060:2-2018 norm and conducted in an ambulatory setting in a leading Swiss hypertension University clinic by specifically trained personnel on 50 patients. The parameters of our oBPM algorithm were trained in challenging operating room conditions (large BP variations) against an invasive reference, thereby ensuring its sensitivity to such changes. Our results demonstrate that a smartphone-model unveiled 4 years ago, without any additional hardware, can be used to measure BP accurately with 70% of the optical signals of sufficient quality to be interpreted. While no cut-off values have been defined to declare the device reliable, future improvement in technology and signal processing will further increase the acceptance rate. Our results suggest that smartphones offer a high potential to improve the accessibility of BP measurements to a broad population, since there is deep penetration of such devices in almost all geographical areas of the world33. The public's interest in downloading smartphone applications for hypertension management is suggested by the fact that some apps for BP measurement, despite not disclosing the methodology nor the accuracy of the measurements, were downloaded more than one million times in 201534.
Although the prevalence of hypertension in developed countries has remained stable in recent years, its increase in low- and middle-income countries represents a future burden to any healthcare system. In many parts of the world, health care services are limited and can provide only occasional and unstructured care for blood pressure related diseases. Cuffless blood pressure measurement is receiving increased attention since it has the potential to overcome some of the shortcomings related to cuff based blood pressure measurements, mainly accessibility of the device35. Smartphones and mHealth could play a promising role in both high-income and developing countries to reduce the adverse effects of hypertension33, by maximizing the synergies of mHealth and eHealth as demonstrated in various settings36.
Finally, although no universally accepted standards for the validation of the cuffless BP measurement currently exist, groups of experts have participated in the development of International standards37. In 2018, the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) working group on BP monitoring and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) presented principles and key elements of a universal validation procedure. With this publication, the basis to enforce regulatory requirements over apps that diagnose, treat or prevent a medical condition may become clearer38. The existing IEEE Std 1708 establishes a normative definition of wearable cuffless blood pressure measuring devices and the objective performance evaluation of such devices39. While this is not a fundamental deficiency of new systems and this only reflects the "first-to-market" advantage of cuff devices, issues in practicality and maintenance remain to be studied regarding oBPM technology.
In the current study, we present the preliminary blood pressure results based on the analysis of the first 50 patients. Further data collection is ongoing and additional work needs to be conducted on various subpopulations and larger groups of patients where accuracy might be different. Furthermore, in our study, the population recruited so far does not correspond to the distribution of blood pressure values requested by the ISO standards.
A second seeming limitation is that a calibration procedure was established for every patient individually in our study, as could be happening at a clinic or at the patients' general practitioner. A preliminary longitudinal study in healthy subjects was able to demonstrate calibration stability for 3 months with a standard deviation of 8% on systolic and diastolic BP40. A similar longitudinal study must now validate those findings in a hypertensive population. The cuff-based devices that have been validated using the static ISO norms are based on the assumption that the rested device is capable of measuring BP without an initial calibration reference measurement. In real life, a cuffless BP monitor should operate accurately over a range of pressure after being calibrated at a known pressure. Further explorations related to the cuffless-BP measure must be undertaken to better report specifics related to this new technology.
This study demonstrates the high accuracy of the OptiBP smartphone app to estimate blood pressure in a subset of 40 patients with a mean and SD of the error of − 0.7 ± 7.7 mmHg for SBP, − 0.4 ± 4.5 mmHg for DBP and − 0.6 ± 5.2 mmHg for MBP and complied with the requirements of the ISO81060-2:2018 norm. This widely-available device could impact health assessment capabilities in developed and third world countries.
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Patrick Schoettker is an advisor to Biospectal. Martin Proença, Guillaume Bonnier, Alia Lemkaddem and Mathieu Lemay are with CSEM, the owner of the oBPM technology and assignee of the oBPM patent application (WO2016138965A1), of which Martin Proença and Mathieu Lemay are inventors. Jean Degott, Gregory Hofmann, Raoul Schorer, Arlene Wuerzner, Michel Burnier and Gregoire Wuerzner have no competing interest. Urvan Christen and Jean-François Knebel are working for Biospectal SA. Innosuisse—Swiss Innovation Agency, Project no. 32688.1 IP-ICT had no role in study design, data collection nor analysis, in the writing of the report nor in the decision to submit the paper for publication.
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recently, the world-wide-web internet dating business will be collecting in Beverly Hills through Summer 5 and June 7 to talk about the expanding pattern of mobile dating on Cellphone Dating Conference.
Real unmarried daters will be joining the industry summit at a focus party, which I'll be holding and moderating on June 6 in the SLS resort.
Mobile phone apps which is reviewed consist of Badoo, eHarmony, think about We, Let's Date, complement, OkCupid and Tinder. The daters participated in a six-week cellular matchmaking training and additionally be discussing their experiences at seminar.
I will be publishing an entire recap with the iDate/Mobile Dating meeting using the most recent fashions in online dating.
Do you believe the stigma of internet dating provides completely vanished? Are you currently in a relationship with somebody you came across on the web?
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This July saw one of our Animation and VFX students, Luis-James Yarroll nominated by one of our Media Lecturers, Simon Claydon to take part in an event hosted by the University of the Arts London.
The Origins Creative Digital Showcase 2021 aims to celebrate the next generation of creatives by featuring a diverse range of work produced by students across all subject areas. This year's showcase celebrates all that students on UAL Awarding Body qualifications have achieved this year. The showcase can be watched on three platforms throughout the website, The Gallery, The 'Live' Event and The Playlist. These platforms display the work of 150 students selected from over 600 submissions by the Senior Lecturer in Design Innovation at London College of Communication.
We are proud to announce that Luis-James was one of those 150 successfully shortlisted for the showcase for his animated music video 'The Posse'. You can watch 'The Posse' on Youtube here: The Posse - Official Animated Music Video - Animator Upload
You can read more about UAL's Digital Showcase here: https://www.arts.ac.uk/partnerships/ual-awarding-body/ual-awarding-body-events/origins-creatives
We would like to congratulate Luis-James on his work being featured at the event and wish him luck as his continues his studies at Escape Studios, Pearson College London.


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Casey Newton, The Verge's longtime Silicon Valley editor and the creator of The Interface newsletter, is leaving the publication to start a newsletter on Substack, reports Sarah Jeong of One Zero.
Here is an excerpt of an interview that Jeong conducted with Newton:
When did you make the decision? When did Substack manage to seduce you away?
I have been talking to Substack — just about their company — basically since they started it. They had approached me last year with a pretty compelling offer to jump. At the time, it just didn't feel like the right move.
But a year later, the pandemic came along, and it just changed a lot for me. I sort of realized that I could do a ton of my job from inside my house. I could do all this digital reporting and could maybe even work on some new and different things because I had all this extra time on my hands.
It's sort of like you're in jail, and you have nothing but time to think about what you'll do on the outside. That's sort of how I felt during the pandemic. I turned 40, and… Substack just did some interesting things. They're really helping writers build communities, they're helping readers discover new writers, and some writers are having this incredible success out there on their own.
So that was one set of factors. Another factor was just that I've been a journalist for 18 years now. The entire time, I've been nervous about what's going on in the ad market. First I saw the web come along and disrupt the print newspapers I was working for.
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Oman set to host the inaugural Legends Cricket League (LLC), a professional cricket league for former star cricketers, in January 2022.
Read More : New additions and Sri Lankan player performances at Abu Dhabi T10 League
Former cricketing legends from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Australia, England will feature in the first season of Legends Cricket League.
The players from these countries will be divided into 3 teams representing India, Asia and the Rest of the World.
Former India Head Coach Ravi Shastri has been appointed as commissioner of the tournament after completing his term with the Indian team last week.
Read : Muthumudalige Pushpakumara Joins Jaffna Kings as Spin Bowling Coach
The tournament has been scheduled to take place in January next year at Al Amerat Cricket Stadium in Oman.


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- Michaël van de Poppe tweets that BTC could skyrocket if it surpasses the $16k resistance stage.
- Technical indicators present bullishness is about to proceed within the brief time period.
- The worth of BTC has risen over the previous 24 hours.
At the moment, Eight world CEO Michaël van de Poppe tweeted that BTC may skyrocket as soon as it surpasses the $16.9k resistance stage. If BTC breaks by the resistance stage, the value may expertise a bull run earlier than the top of the yr.
CoinMarketCap knowledge exhibits that Bitcoin's worth has elevated by 1.39% within the final 24 hours, but its fee has dropped by 2.28% prior to now week. Buying and selling exercise for BTC can be on the rise in current days.s. On the time of writing, the each day commerce site visitors for BTC had hit an estimated $23.67 billion, exhibiting an incredible 73.87% bounce from the earlier knowledge.
On the 24-hour chart, the technical indicators point out extended bullishness. The Relative Energy Index for Bitcoin continues to be within the 'impartial' zone on the time of writing, which means there was no current change in market sentiment.
The MACD's histogram has been reducing just lately and is at present hovering across the zero line, indicating a potential bearish reversal. The Bollinger Bands for BTC have been fairly risky with the higher band at $16,818 and exhibiting additional indicators of bullishness.
The BTC market is predicted to keep up its constructive pattern so long as worth motion stays above the shifting common and bullish candlestick formations proceed to emerge. The motion of the Transferring Common Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator above the sign line at 12 is extra proof of this upward pattern.
If Bitcoin fails to remain above the established help stage in right now's session, projections counsel it might drop again to its prior resistance at $17,000 quickly. Notably, following a gentle uptrend since late November, BTC skyrocketed to $18,388 on December 14 as a result of FOMC.
On the 4-hour timeline, the Relative Energy Index is rising, implying that merchants are presently directing BTC value exercise. Though the Stochastic RSI is at present bullish, buyers ought to not be apprehensive since it's removed from the overbought space at 14.18.
If BTC can overcome $16.9K quickly, it'd attain unprecedented sums. Conversely, if bulls can keep their momentum, bears could lead on charges under $16.5K (the bottom level of the day).
General, it seems to be like Bitcoin is consolidating throughout the present vary and could also be getting ready to make one other push towards breaking the $16.9K resistance stage.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions, in addition to all the knowledge shared on this worth prediction, are revealed in good religion. Readers should do their analysis and due diligence. Any motion taken by the reader is strictly at their very own danger. Coin Version and its associates is not going to be held accountable for any direct or oblique harm or loss.


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As more people have been or are in the process of getting vaccinated, many are wondering what changes after they're fully vaccinated - what should they do and not do?
The COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective, which is good for preventing disease and severe illness. For those who have been fully vaccinated, there are some things you can do more safely. The CDC has come out with guidance for things people can do if they are fully vaccinated. This will continue to change/evolve as more people continue to get vaccinated.


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MEMBERS PRESENT: Craig Gorson, Anthony Kerwin (Chair), Christopher Iverson, Ben Rice, Dan Maymar
Members Absent: Jim Lewis
Staff Present: Nancy Slocum, Keith Woodley
Non-Voting Members Present:
Also Present: Marty
I. CALL TO ORDER: Chair Anthony Kerwin called the meeting to order at 5:32 PM in the Siskiyou Room. Commission welcomed Craig Gorson and Ben Rice to the Commission.
II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Gorgon/Iverson m/s to approve the minutes of September 11, 2007 as submitted. Motion passed unanimously.
III. PUBLIC FORUM: None
IV. ADJUSTMENTS TO THE AGENDA: Darren Borgias asked that the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB) Technical Assistant grant be added to New Business. Kerwin approved the request.
A. Review and Vote on AFR Implementation, Mitigation and Monitoring Comments to Forest Service – Slocum,
Maymar / Gorson m/s to accept the letter as edited, asked Slocum made the changes and mail the final letter October 10th with Woodley's signature.
B. Winburn Parcel Management
Before discussing the specifics of the management plan,
Rice wondered if it would be appropriate to allow the USFS or ODF to review our final management plan as a way to further communication between agencies.
VI. NEW BUSINESS: None
A. OWEB Technical Assistant Grant Application
Darren Borgias, Stewardship Ecologist for the Nature Conservancy, said a goal of the Conservancy was to begin to offer wider support to local watershed owners. As such he is offering to apply for an OWEB Technical Assistance Grant of $50,000 on behalf of the City (deadline is October 22). Borgias provided the Commission with a draft concept paper describing the purpose for the requested funding as "to enable the City of Ashland technical staff and contractor to collaborate with the Rogue-Siskiyou National Forest in delineating units, unit specific prescriptions, and necessary inventory to implement the USFS proposed Ashland Forest Resiliency Project developed collaboratively under the Healthy Forest Restoration Act." Bear Creek Watershed Council has offered to write a letter of support and the Fish and Wildlife may write the other. Borgias is requesting Commission's approval to move forward with the grant application.
Gorson moved to allow Borgias to write the grant with Woodley and
VII. COMMISSIONER COMMENTS: None
Anthony Kerwin, Chair
Respectfully Submitted, Nancy Slocum, Clerk


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Hello bookworms! I'm Nia and today I'm going to show you the books I plan to read in September.
First of all let me say that I have a very ambitious TBR for this month. This past month of August I had an amazing reading month, and so I wanted to set a goal for September to read just as much. I'm also going to be participating in the ContemporaryAThon, but I'm not going to be talking about the books I want to read that week, mostly because I haven't decided yet.
Without any further ado, let's begin with the post!
#MurderTrending | Gretchen McNeil
WELCOME TO THE NEAR FUTURE, where good and honest 8/18 citizens can enjoy watching the executions of society's most infamous convicted felons, streaming live on The Postman app from the suburbanized prison island Alcatraz 2.0.
When eighteen-year-old Dee Guerrera wakes up in a haze, lying on the ground of a dimly lit warehouse, she realizes she's about to be the next victim of the app. Knowing hardened criminals are getting a taste of their own medicine in this place is one thing, but Dee refuses to roll over and die for a heinous crime she didn't commit. Can Dee and her newly formed posse, the Death Row Breakfast Club, prove she's innocent before she ends up wrongfully murdered for the world to see? Or will The Postman's cast of executioners kill them off one by one?
What If It's Us | Adam Silvera & Becky Albertalli
Arthur is only in New York for the summer, but if Broadway has taught him anything, it's that the universe can deliver a showstopping romance when you least expect it.
Ben thinks the universe needs to mind its business. If the universe had his back, he wouldn't be on his way to the post office carrying a box of his ex-boyfriend's things.
But when Arthur and Ben meet-cute at the post office, what exactly does the universe have in store for them?
Maybe nothing. After all, they get separated.
Maybe everything. After all, they get reunited.
But what if they can't quite nail a first date . . . or a second first date . . . or a third?
What if Arthur tries too hard to make it work . . . and Ben doesn't try hard enough?
What if life really isn't like a Broadway play?
But what if it is?
The Diviners | Libba Bray
Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City—and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult.
Evie worries he'll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer.
As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho hides a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened.
Heart of Thorns | Bree Barton
In the ancient river kingdom, touch is a battlefield, bodies the instruments of war. Seventeen-year-old Mia Rose has pledged her life to hunting Gwyrach: women who can manipulate flesh, bones, breath, and blood.
Not women. Demons. The same demons who killed her mother without a single scratch.
But when Mia's father suddenly announces her marriage to the prince, she is forced to trade in her knives and trousers for a sumptuous silk gown. Only after the wedding goes disastrously wrong does she discover she has dark, forbidden magic—the very magic she has sworn to destroy.
The Raging Ones | Krista & Becca Ritchie
In a freezing world, where everyone knows the day they will die, three teens break all odds.
Franny Bluecastle, a tough city teen, dreams of dying in opulence, to see wealth she's never known. Like the entire world, she believes it's impossible to dodge a deathday.
Until the day she does.
Court Icecastle knows wealth. He also knows pain. Spending five years in Vorkter Prison, a fortress of ice and suffering, he dreams of life beyond the people that haunt him and the world that imprisoned him.
Mykal Kickfall fights for those he loves. The rugged Hinterlander shares a frustrating yet unbreakable connection with Court—which only grows more lawless and chaotic as their senses and emotions connect with Franny.
With the threat of people learning they've dodged their deathdays, they must flee their planet to survive. But to do so, all three will have to hide their shared bond as they vie for a highly sought after spot in the newest mission to space. Against thousands of people far smarter, who'll live longer, and never fear death the way that they do.
Mirage | Somaiya Daud
In a star system dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was like before the occupation; she dreams of writing poetry like the old-world poems she adores; she dreams of receiving a sign from Dihya that one day, she, too, will have adventure, and travel beyond her isolated moon.
But when adventure comes for Amani, it is not what she expects: she is kidnapped by the regime and taken in secret to the royal palace, where she discovers that she is nearly identical to the cruel half-Vathek Princess Maram. The princess is so hated by her conquered people that she requires a body double, someone to appear in public as Maram, ready to die in her place.
As Amani is forced into her new role, she can't help but enjoy the palace's beauty—and her time with the princess' fiancé, Idris. But the glitter of the royal court belies a world of violence and fear. If Amani ever wishes to see her family again, she must play the princess to perfection…because one wrong move could lead to her death.
The Girl at Midnight | Melissa Gray
Beneath the streets of New York City live the Avicen, an ancient race of people with feathers for hair and magic running through their veins. Age-old enchantments keep them hidden from humans. All but one. Echo is a runaway pickpocket who survives by selling stolen treasures on the black market, and the Avicen are the only family she's ever known.
Echo is clever and daring, and at times she can be brash, but above all else she's fiercely loyal. So when a centuries-old war crests on the borders of her home, she decides it's time to act.
Legend has it that there is a way to end the conflict once and for all: find the firebird, a mythical entity believed to possess power the likes of which the world has never seen. It will be no easy task, though if life as a thief has taught Echo anything, it's how to hunt down what she wants…and how to take it.
But some jobs aren't as straightforward as they seem. And this one might just set the world on fire.
Broken Things | Lauren Oliver
It's been five years since Summer Marks was brutally murdered in the woods.
Everyone thinks Mia and Brynn killed their best friend. That driven by their obsession with a novel called The Way into Lovelorn the three girls had imagined themselves into the magical world where their fantasies became twisted, even deadly.
The only thing is: they didn't do it.
On the anniversary of Summer's death, a seemingly insignificant discovery resurrects the mystery and pulls Mia and Brynn back together once again. But as the lines begin to blur between past and present and fiction and reality, the girls must confront what really happened in the woods all those years ago—no matter how monstrous.
Sawkill Girls | Claire Legrand
Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep.
He'll follow you home, and he won't let you sleep.
Who are the Sawkill Girls?
Marion: the new girl. Awkward and plain, steady and dependable. Weighed down by tragedy and hungry for love she's sure she'll never find.
Zoey: the pariah. Luckless and lonely, hurting but hiding it. Aching with grief and dreaming of vanished girls. Maybe she's broken—or maybe everyone else is.
Val: the queen bee. Gorgeous and privileged, ruthless and regal. Words like silk and eyes like knives, a heart made of secrets and a mouth full of lies.
Their stories come together on the island of Sawkill Rock, where gleaming horses graze in rolling pastures and cold waves crash against black cliffs. Where kids whisper the legend of an insidious monster at parties and around campfires.
Where girls have been disappearing for decades, stolen away by a ravenous evil no one has dared to fight… until now.
The Last Magician | Lissa Maxwell
In modern-day New York, magic is all but extinct. The remaining few who have an affinity for magic—the Mageus—live in the shadows, hiding who they are. Any Mageus who enters Manhattan becomes trapped by the Brink, a dark energy barrier that confines them to the island. Crossing it means losing their power—and often their lives.
Esta is a talented thief, and she's been raised to steal magical artifacts from the sinister Order that created the Brink. With her innate ability to manipulate time, Esta can pilfer from the past, collecting these artifacts before the Order even realizes she's there. And all of Esta's training has been for one final job: traveling back to 1902 to steal an ancient book containing the secrets of the Order—and the Brink—before the Magician can destroy it and doom the Mageus to a hopeless future.
But Old New York is a dangerous world ruled by ruthless gangs and secret societies, a world where the very air crackles with magic. Nothing is as it seems, including the Magician himself. And for Esta to save her future, she may have to betray everyone in the past.
What books do you plan to read this month? Have you read any of these ones I've mentioned above or do you have them on your TBR like me? Let me know in the comments!
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