Noninvasive blood glucose level estimation using bioimpedance spectroscopy and machine learning: an integrated...

Noninvasive blood glucose detection can avoid pricking fingers to collect blood to obtain blood glucose level (BGL), which can greatly alleviate the pain of diabetic patients. In this paper, a new noninvasive blood glucose detection method using bioimpedance spectroscopy combined with machine learning technology is proposed. Specifically, a data generation method is introduced that adaptively increases the number of missing samples based on the sample density distribution, thereby addressing the problems of small sample sizes and large estimation errors in extreme BGLs. Subsequently, sparse group LASSO with a weight ratio threshold is employed to simultaneously select the frequencies and features with the largest contribution based on prior knowledge of the data structure. Finally, the XGBoost algorithm is used to construct a machine learning regression model. Optuna is used to achieve integrated optimization of all hyperparameters and is evaluated with five-fold cross-validation. Blood glucose data of healthy people and type 2 diabetes patients were collected through oral glucose tolerance test in the laboratory environment. The test results of the model are satisfactory with a mean absolute relative difference of 9.55%. The clinically acceptable zone A + B (A) for the Clarke Error Grid is 99.38% (90.63%). Therefore, our method is expected to be developed into wearable devices to replace traditional invasive methods.