A predictive modeling engine using neural networks: Diabetes management from sensor and activity data

• Published in: 2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services pp. 230 - 237
• Main Authors: Chatterjee, S., Qi Xie, Dutta, K.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.10.2012
• Subjects: Artificial neural networks; Biomedical monitoring; Data models; Diabetes; Diseases; healthcare modeling; neural networks; persuasive technology; prediction; Predictive models; sensor networks; Testing; texting

Diabetes is a common but serious chronic disease. Nearly 8% of Americans who are aged 65 and older (about 10.9 million) suffer from this deadly disease. Self-management of this disease is possible, yet the older population lack knowledge, have denial and often lack motivation to do so. Recently we h...