Decreasing the measurement time of blood sugar tests using particle filtering
Ann-Kathrin Seifert, Nevine Demitri, Abdelhak M. Zoubir
Abstract
The usability of hand-held glucose meters to self-monitor blood sugar levels is crucially affected by the measurement time. We consider an image-based photometric measurement setup that optically tracks the chemical reaction that takes place on the blood covered test strip. The aim is to obtain a reliable estimate of the true underlying glucose concentration in the blood sample at an early stage of the observed chemical reaction in order to increase the testing speed. We propose using particle filtering to track the required image statistics that are subject to a non-linear process. Using real data, we show that the developed algorithm drastically reduces the measurement time at a comparable quality of results.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{icassp2016_decreasingthemea,
title = {Decreasing the measurement time of blood sugar tests using particle filtering},
author = {Ann-Kathrin Seifert and Nevine Demitri and Abdelhak M. Zoubir},
booktitle = {ICASSP 2016},
year = {2016}
}