Prediction of glucose concentration in blood plasma with support vector regression algorithm

Abstract

Diabetes Mellitus is due to the disorder of glucose metabolism because of defects in insulin secretion or insulin action. It has become a major health challenge nowadays. Monitoring and regulation of blood glucose is inevitable to avoid diabetic complications. Prediction of near future glucose levels and giving alert for appropriate action could be done by machine learning techniques. This would greatly assist the diabetes patients in the daily management of diabetes. This paper discusses the effectiveness of Support Vector Regression in diabetes management. The methodology has been applied to three different data sets and performance measure is analyzed with Root Mean Square Error values.