Electrocardiographic signals and swarm-based support vector machine for hypoglycemia detection

Publication Type:
Journal Article
Citation:
Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2012, 40 (4), pp. 934 - 945
Issue Date:
2012-04-01
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Cardiac arrhythmia relating to hypoglycemia is suggested as a cause of death in diabetic patients. This article introduces electrocardiographic (ECG) parameters for artificially induced hypoglycemia detection. In addition, a hybrid technique of swarm-based support vector machine (SVM) is introduced for hypoglycemia detection using the ECG parameters as inputs. In this technique, a particle swarm optimization (PSO) is proposed to optimize the SVM to detect hypoglycemia. In an experiment using medical data of patients with Type 1 diabetes, the introduced ECG parameters show significant contributions to the performance of the hypoglycemia detection and the proposed detection technique performs well in terms of sensitivity and specificity. © 2011 Biomedical Engineering Society.
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