Photoplethysmography based non-invasive blood glucose estimation using systolic-diastolic framing MFCC features and...

Accurate and non-invasive blood glucose estimation is essential for effective health monitoring. Traditional methods are invasive and inconvenient, often leading to poor patient compliance. This study introduces a novel approach that leverages systolic-diastolic framing Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (SDFMFCC) to enhance the accuracy and reliability of blood glucose estimation using photoplethysmography (PPG) signals.

The proposed method employs SDFMFCC for feature extraction, incorporating systolic and diastolic frames. The systolic and diastolic points are identified using the Savitzky-Golay filter, followed by local extrema detection. Blood glucose levels are estimated using support vector regression (SVR). The evaluation is performed on a dataset comprising 67 raw PPG signal samples, along with labeled demographic and biometric data collected from 23 volunteers (aged 20 to 60 years) under informed consent and ethical guidelines.

The SDFMFCC-based approach demonstrates high accuracy (99.8%) and precision (0.996), with a competitive root mean square error (RMSE) of 26.01 mg/dL. The Clarke Error Grid analysis indicates that 99.273% of predictions fall within Zone A, suggesting clinically insignificant differences between estimated and actual glucose levels.

The study validates the hypothesis that incorporating a new framing method in MFCC feature extraction significantly enhances the accuracy and reliability of non-invasive blood glucose estimation. The results highlight that the SDFMFCC method effectively captures critical physiological variations in PPG signals, offering a promising alternative to traditional invasive methods.