[NetBehaviour] Artificial Intelligence and the Artificial Pancreas

[Edward Picot]

On the subject of AI, this may be of interest. I've just finished 
summarising an article from the British Medical Journal about research 
into Artificial Pancreas systems. An Artificial Pancreas isn't a 
mechanical device that's implanted into someone, like a pacemaker - it's 
basically a computer algorithm into which you feed the results of 
continuous blood glucose monitoring, and it responds by telling you how 
to adjust your insulin dosage. In a 'closed loop' system this 
information is fed straight to your insulin pump, so that human input 
shouldn't normally be required at all. The research paper I was 
summarising indicates that although further research is required, these 
Artificial Pancreas systems seem to be far more efficient at keeping 
Type 1 Diabetic patients in the 'normal' blood-sugar range than 
old-fashioned dosing regimes. They're especially efficient at night, 
when old-fashioned dosing regimes tend to overload the blood with 
insulin at the beginning of the night and leave it short by the time 
morning comes.

There’s a very interesting open-source artificial pancreas system at 
_https://openaps.org/_ , and there’s an article about it in the Guardian 
at 
_https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jul/20/diabetes-experience-i-built-my-own-pancreas_ 
.

Edward

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