Machine Learning System for Hypoglycemia Prediction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods fail to accurately predict hypoglycemic events in diabetic patients, leading to suboptimal glycemic control and increased medical costs, as they do not effectively identify the most suitable basal insulin for individual patients.

Innovation Solution

A machine learning system is trained using electronic medical records to predict hypoglycemic event rates, comparing different basal insulins and identifying covariates that correlate with these events, thereby recommending appropriate insulin types based on patient data.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional methods are used to manage diabetic patients, then medical costs increase and glycemic control is suboptimal, but implementing a machine learning system requires significant data processing resources and computational complexity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveglycemic controlVSAvoidmachine learning system
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The machine learning models are trained in advance using historical medical record data from multiple patients. This preliminary training phase allows the system to learn patterns and relationships between patient characteristics and hypoglycemic event rates before actual deployment, enabling reliable predictions without requiring complex real-time computations during patient management

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates simplified representations (models) of the complex relationships between patient data and hypoglycemic events. These trained models serve as copies or approximations of the underlying medical patterns, allowing the system to make reliable predictions using straightforward computations rather than complex real-time analysis

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Measurement precision

If a machine learning system is implemented to predict hypoglycemic events, then prediction accuracy improves, but data processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvehypoglycemic event prediction accuracyVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs computationally intensive data processing and pattern recognition in advance during the model training phase. By pre-processing the medical record data and learning from historical patterns before deployment, the system achieves high prediction accuracy while minimizing real-time processing requirements when actual predictions are needed

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces complex real-time computational analysis with pre-trained statistical models. Instead of performing mechanical data processing and pattern recognition during actual patient predictions, the system uses previously learned models that provide accurate predictions through simpler computations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS20240370747A1Predicting Rates of Hypoglycemia by a Machine Learning System
Publication Date: 2024.11.07 SANOFI SA(FR)
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AI summary

Systems, methods, and computer products can predict rates of hypoglycemia in patients. One of the methods includes receiving data representing medical records of a patient, the patient having been diagnosed with diabetes mellitus. The method includes determine an predicted rate of hypoglycemic events using a machine learning system, the machine being trained using data representing the medical records of a plurality of patients and the corresponding rate of hypoglycemic events for the respective patients. The methods also includes producing the predicted rate for the patient.