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The identification of hypertension, and, even more the evaluation of its risk stratification, by using wearable monitoring devices are now more realistic thanks to the advancements in Internet of Things, the improvements of digital sensors that are becoming more and more miniaturized, and the development of new signal processing and machine learning algorithms. In this scenario, a suitable biomedical signal is represented by the PhotoPlethysmoGraphy (PPG) signal. It can be acquired by using a simple, cheap, and wearable device, and can be used to evaluate several aspects of the cardiovascular system, e.g., the detection of abnormal heart rate, respiration rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, and so on. In this paper, we take into account the Cuff-Less Blood Pressure Estimation Data Set that contains, among others, PPG signals coming from a set of subjects, as well as the Blood Pressure values of the latter that is the hypertension level. Our aim is to investigate whether or not machine learning methods applied to these PPG signals can provide better results for the non-invasive classification and evaluation of subjects\u2019 hypertension levels. To this aim, we have availed ourselves of a wide set of machine learning algorithms, based on different learning mechanisms, and have compared their results in terms of the effectiveness of the classification obtained.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jsan9030034","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,21]],"date-time":"2020-07-21T06:38:55Z","timestamp":1595313535000},"page":"34","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Non-Invasive Risk Stratification of Hypertension: A Systematic Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7856-8761","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Giovanna","family":"Sannino","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) of National Research Council (CNR), 80131 Naples, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6127-1195","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ivanoe","family":"De Falco","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) of National Research Council (CNR), 80131 Naples, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4675-5957","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Giuseppe","family":"De Pietro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) of National Research Council (CNR), 80131 Naples, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1053","DOI":"10.1161\/01.HYP.37.4.1053","article-title":"Diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease: An update","volume":"37","author":"Sowers","year":"2001","journal-title":"Hypertension"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"42","DOI":"10.1161\/HYPERTENSIONAHA.116.08076","article-title":"Effect of intensive versus standard clinic-based hypertension management on ambulatory blood pressure: Results from the SPRINT (Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial) ambulatory blood pressure study","volume":"69","author":"Drawz","year":"2017","journal-title":"Hypertension"},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"504","DOI":"10.1161\/01.HYP.21.4.504","article-title":"National standard for measurement of resting and ambulatory blood pressures with automated sphygmomanometers","volume":"21","author":"White","year":"1993","journal-title":"Hypertension"},{"key":"ref_4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Liang, Y., Chen, Z., Ward, R., and Elgendi, M. 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