How GE is measuring blood pressure with selfies

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Regular blood pressure measuring could soon be completely cuffless, thanks to a group of scientists and researchers who are working on creating algorithms to detect blood pressure using a smartphone camera.

Scientists at GE Global Research, Michigan State University and the University of Rochester Medical Center are working on making algorithms that can analyze video from a smartphone’s camera to detect the blood pulsing below the skin to read blood pressure.

“This new cuffless approach involves capturing a short video of your face and hands lasting 5 to ten seconds, during which we observe and analyze what’s happening beneath the skin to estimate your heart rate and blood pressure,” Lalit K. Mestha, an engineer at GE Global Research, said in a press release.

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