Toward Affordable and Non-Invasive Detection of Hypoglycemia: A Machine Learning Approach

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Autori principali: Obiuwevwi, Lawrence, Rechowicz, Krzysztof J., Ashok, Vikas, Jayarathna, Sampath
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author Obiuwevwi, Lawrence
Rechowicz, Krzysztof J.
Ashok, Vikas
Jayarathna, Sampath
author_facet Obiuwevwi, Lawrence
Rechowicz, Krzysztof J.
Ashok, Vikas
Jayarathna, Sampath
contents Diabetes mellitus is a growing global health issue, with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) requiring constant monitoring to avoid hypoglycemia. Although Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) are effective, their cost and invasiveness limit access, particularly in low-resource settings. This paper proposes a non-invasive method to classify glycemic states using Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), a biosignal commonly captured by wearable sensors. We use the merged OhioT1DM 2018 and 2020 datasets to build a machine learning pipeline that detects hypoglycemia (glucose < 70 mg/dl) and normoglycemia (glucose > 70 mg/dl) with GSR alone. Seven models are trained and evaluated: Random Forest, XGBoost, MLP, CNN, LSTM, Logistic Regression, and K-Nearest Neighbors. Validation sets and 95% confidence intervals are reported to increase reliability and assess robustness. Results show that the LSTM model achieves a perfect hypoglycemia recall (1.00) with an F1-score confidence interval of [0.611-0.745], while XGBoost offers strong performance with a recall of 0.54 even under class imbalance. This approach highlights the potential for affordable, wearable-compatible glucose monitoring tools suitable for settings with limited CGM availability using GSR data. Index Terms: Hypoglycemia Detection, Galvanic Skin Response, Non Invasive Monitoring, Wearables, Machine Learning, Confidence Intervals.
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spellingShingle Toward Affordable and Non-Invasive Detection of Hypoglycemia: A Machine Learning Approach
Obiuwevwi, Lawrence
Rechowicz, Krzysztof J.
Ashok, Vikas
Jayarathna, Sampath
Human-Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
Diabetes mellitus is a growing global health issue, with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) requiring constant monitoring to avoid hypoglycemia. Although Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) are effective, their cost and invasiveness limit access, particularly in low-resource settings. This paper proposes a non-invasive method to classify glycemic states using Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), a biosignal commonly captured by wearable sensors. We use the merged OhioT1DM 2018 and 2020 datasets to build a machine learning pipeline that detects hypoglycemia (glucose < 70 mg/dl) and normoglycemia (glucose > 70 mg/dl) with GSR alone. Seven models are trained and evaluated: Random Forest, XGBoost, MLP, CNN, LSTM, Logistic Regression, and K-Nearest Neighbors. Validation sets and 95% confidence intervals are reported to increase reliability and assess robustness. Results show that the LSTM model achieves a perfect hypoglycemia recall (1.00) with an F1-score confidence interval of [0.611-0.745], while XGBoost offers strong performance with a recall of 0.54 even under class imbalance. This approach highlights the potential for affordable, wearable-compatible glucose monitoring tools suitable for settings with limited CGM availability using GSR data. Index Terms: Hypoglycemia Detection, Galvanic Skin Response, Non Invasive Monitoring, Wearables, Machine Learning, Confidence Intervals.
title Toward Affordable and Non-Invasive Detection of Hypoglycemia: A Machine Learning Approach
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17842