Non-Invasive and Accurate Blood Glucose Detection Based on an Equivalent Bioimpedance Spectrum

Accurate blood glucose monitoring is a key issue for the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes. For this purpose, a non-invasive blood glucose detection method is proposed, which makes use of the equivalent bioelectric impedance spectrum. An impedance detection platform is designed using an automatic balance bridge technique, which can acquire an impedance spectrum within the range of dispersion. Then, the K-nearest neighbor algorithm is used to extract the characteristics of the impedance spectrum. Furthermore, higher-order multiple regression methods are used to establish a blood glucose–electrical impedance spectrum model. Experimental results show that the proposed blood glucose–electrical impedance spectrum model can estimate the change in blood glucose and reliably identify the high blood glucose samples. The correlation between the proposed method and the biochemical blood glucose values can reach 0.89 and 0.87 in personal and multi-person blood glucose tests, respectively. Thus, the proposed method provides a feasible solution for non-invasive blood glucose detection and can help us identify diabetes mellitus.