Reconstructing insulin secretion rate after a glucose stimulus by an improved stochastic deconvolution method

IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2001 Nov;48(11):1352-4. doi: 10.1109/10.959332.

Abstract

Reconstructing insulin secretion rate (ISR) after a glucose stimulus by deconvolution is difficult because of its biphasic pattern, i.e., a rapid secretion peak is followed by a slower release. Here, we refine a recently proposed stochastic deconvolution method by modeling ISR as the multiple integration of a white noise process with time-varying statistics. The unknown parameters are estimated from the data by employing a maximum likelihood criterion. A fast computational scheme implementing the method is presented. Monte Carlo simulation results are developed which numerically show a more reliable ISR profile reconstructed by the new method.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Diabetes Mellitus / diagnosis
  • Diabetes Mellitus / physiopathology
  • Glucose Tolerance Test / statistics & numerical data
  • Humans
  • Insulin / metabolism*
  • Insulin Secretion
  • Models, Biological*
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Stochastic Processes

Substances

  • Insulin