The first automatic algorithm was designed to estimate the pulse pressure variation (PPVPPV) from arterial blood pressure (ABP) signals under spontaneous breathing conditions. While currently there are a few publicly available algorithms to automatically estimate PPVPPV accurately and reliably in mechani-cally ventilated subjects, at the moment there is no automatic algorithm for estimating PPVPPV on sponta-neously breathing subjects. The algorithm utilizes our recently developed sequential Monte Carlo method (SMCM), which is called a maximum a-posteriori adaptive marginalized particle filter (MAM-PF). The performance assessment results of the proposed algorithm on real ABP signals from spontaneously breath-ing subjects were reported.
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