BACKGROUND Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) have become important tools for providing estimates of glucose to patients with diabetes. Recently, neural networks (NNs) have become a common method for forecasting glucose… Click to show full abstract
BACKGROUND Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) have become important tools for providing estimates of glucose to patients with diabetes. Recently, neural networks (NNs) have become a common method for forecasting glucose values using data from CGMs. One method of forecasting glucose values is a time-delay feedforward (FF) NN, but a change in the CGM location on a participant can increase forecast error in a FF NN. METHODS In response, we examined a NN with gated recurrent units (GRUs) as a method of reducing forecast error due to changes in sensor location. RESULTS We observed that for 13 participants with type 2 diabetes wearing blinded CGMs on both arms for 12 weeks (FreeStyle Libre Pro-Abbott), GRU NNs did not produce significantly different errors in glucose prediction due to sensor location changes (P < .05). CONCLUSION We observe that GRU NNs can mitigate error in glucose prediction due to differences in CGM location.
               
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