Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics (Jul 2017)

A Deep Learning Approach to Diabetic Blood Glucose Prediction

  • Hrushikesh N. Mhaskar,
  • Sergei V. Pereverzyev,
  • Maria D. van der Walt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fams.2017.00014
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3

Abstract

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We consider the question of 30-min prediction of blood glucose levels measured by continuous glucose monitoring devices, using clinical data. While most studies of this nature deal with one patient at a time, we take a certain percentage of patients in the data set as training data, and test on the remainder of the patients; i.e., the machine need not re-calibrate on the new patients in the data set. We demonstrate how deep learning can outperform shallow networks in this example. One novelty is to demonstrate how a parsimonious deep representation can be constructed using domain knowledge.

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