Simple Linear Support Vector Machine Classifier Can Distinguish Impaired Glucose Tolerance Versus Type 2 Diabetes Using a Reduced Set of CGM-Based Glycemic Variability Indices.

Journal: Journal of diabetes science and technology
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Many glycemic variability (GV) indices exist in the literature. In previous works, we demonstrated that a set of GV indices, extracted from continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) data, can distinguish between stages of diabetes progression. We showed that 25 indices driving a logistic regression classifier can differentiate between healthy and nonhealthy individuals; whereas 37 GV indices and four individual parameters, feeding a polynomial-kernel support vector machine (SVM), can further distinguish between impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and type 2 diabetes (T2D). The latter approach has some limitations to interpretability (complex model, extensive index pool). In this article, we try to obtain the same performance with a simpler classifier and a parsimonious subset of indices.

Authors

  • Enrico Longato
    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
  • Giada Acciaroli
    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
  • Andrea Facchinetti
  • Alberto Maran
    Department of Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
  • Giovanni Sparacino