An Advanced Bolus Calculator for Type 1 Diabetes: System Architecture and Usability Results.
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Journal Article
Abstract
This paper presents the architecture and initial usability results of an advanced insulin bolus calculator for diabetes (ABC4D), which provides personalized insulin recommendations for people with diabetes by differentiating between various diabetes scenarios and automatically adjusting its parameters over time. The proposed platform comprises two main components: a smartphone-based patient platform allowing manual input of glucose and variables affecting blood glucose levels (e.g., meal carbohydrate content and exercise) and providing real-time insulin bolus recommendations; and a clinical revision platform to supervise the automatic adaptations of the bolus calculator parameters. The system implements a previously in silico validated bolus calculator algorithm based on case-based reasoning, which uses information from similar past events (i.e., cases) to suggest improved personalized insulin bolus recommendations and automatically learns from new events. Usability of ABC4D was assessed by analyzing the system usage at the end of a six-week pilot study (n = 10). Further feedback on the use of ABC4D has been obtained from each participant at the end of the study from a usability questionnaire. On average, each participant requested 115 ± 21 insulin recommendations, of which 103 ± 28 (90%) were accepted. The clinical revision software proposed a total of 754 case revisions, where 723 (96%) adaptations were approved by a clinical expert and updated in the patient platform.
Date Issued
2015-08-03
Date Acceptance
2015-07-30
Citation
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2015, 20 (1), pp.11-17
ISSN
2168-2208
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Start Page
11
End Page
17
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Volume
20
Issue
1
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Sponsor
Wellcome Trust
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding
Wellcome Trust
Medical Research Council (MRC)
National Institute for Health Research
Grant Number
089758/Z/09/Z
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WT 100921/Z/13/Z
MC_PC_12015
II-LA-0214-20008
Publication Status
Published