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Abstract
A new concept of non-invasive blood pressure measurement by heart sound pattern analysis is described. The known diagnostic criterion of the 'accentuated' second heart sound of a hypertensive patient is here converted into a computer-aided pattern-recognition process for the second heart sound, applicable over the entire scale of blood pressure. After a 'learning phase', during which the second heart sound is recorded, analysed and correlated with a set of systolic blood pressure values of the individual patient, the computer is able to determine systolic blood pressure of the same patient from the acoustic spectrum of the second heart sound with sufficient precision. The method is in principle suited for automatically repeated blood pressure measurements, but further development is still needed for conversion into a widely practicable procedure.