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Blood glucose estimation based on ECG signal

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Successful self-management of diabetes requires Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs). These CGMs have several limitations such as being invasive, expensive and limited in terms of use. Many techniques, in vain, have been proposed to overcome these limitations. Nowadays, with the help of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) technologies, researchers are working to find alternative solutions. They succeed to predict hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia peaks using Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. However, they failed to use it to estimate the Blood Glucose Concentration (BGC) directly and in real time. Three patients with 08 days of measurements from the D1namo dataset contributed to the study. A new technique has been proposed to estimate the BGC curves based on ECG signals. We used a convolutional neural network to segment the different regions of ECG signals as well as we extracted ECG features that were required for the next step. Then, five regression models have been employed to estimate BGC using as input sixth ECG parameters. We were able to segment the ECG signals with an accuracy of 94% using the convolutional neural network algorithm. The best performance among all simulated models was provided by Exponential Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) with Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) values of 0.32, 0.41, 0.67 and R-squared (R2) values of 98%, 80%, and 70% for patients 01, 02 and 03 respectively. The method indicates the potential use of ECG wearable devices as non-invasive for continuous blood glucose monitoring, which is affordable and durable.

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This work used the D1NAMO dataset acquired from human participants in a previous study. The dataset is open source and available at https://zenodo.org/record/1421616.

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The authors would like to thank the Scientific Research and Technological Development Centre for the financial assistance through monthly allowances provided to doctoral students to conduct their research

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    Khadidja Fellah Arbi Phd student, Sofiane Soulimane professor & Mohammed Amine Bechar

  2. Centre for the Development of Advanced Technologies (CDTA) at Setif, University of Setif1, EL-Baz Campus, 19000, Setif, Algeria

    Faycal Saffih

  3. ESPTLAB. University of Tlemcen, Tlemcen, Algeria

    Omar Azzoug

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Fellah Arbi, K., Soulimane, S., Saffih, F. et al. Blood glucose estimation based on ECG signal. Phys Eng Sci Med 46, 255–264 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13246-022-01214-3

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