Comprehensive Arterial Pulse Wave Database

The first dataset is the publicly accessible database (Nektar1D Pulse Wave Database, Nektar1D-PWDB), published by Alastruey et al. at King’s College London, United Kingdom, based on the Nektar1D model. This model used the Nektar1D non-linear one-dimensional flow model, which has been fully clinically validated and used in several studies to simulate the hemodynamic characteristics of the human arterial tree, to ensure the validity of hemodynamic parameters of the 1D model and the generated data (Matthys et al., 2007 (link); Alastruey et al., 2011 (link); Xiao et al., 2014 (link); Willemet et al., 2015 (link)). For more detailed information on this database, see the study by Charlton et al. (Charlton et al., 2019 (link)).
The database contains the arterial pulse waves from 4,374 virtual subjects, ranging from 25 to 75 years, at a sampling frequency of 500 Hz. A total of 537 out of the 4,374 subjects exhibited blood pressures outside of healthy norms (virtual subjects with abnormal blood pressure; without CVD), and 3,837 subjects are physiologically plausible. Table 1 contains basic population and hemodynamic statistics. SBP and DBP of the radial artery and central aortic are 95 mmHg–168 mmHg and 48 mmHg–87 mmHg, as shown in Figure 1.