METABOLIC MONITORING, A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDICATING A HEALTH-RELATED CONDITION OF A SUBJECT

摘要

An apparatus for indicating a health-related condition of a subject has an input interface for receiving a sequence of samples of a first biological quantity derived by a first measurement method, the first measurement method being an invasive measurement and having a first impact on the subject, and for receiving a sequence of samples of a second biological quantity derived by a second measurement method, the second measurement method being a non-invasive measurement and having a second impact on the subject, wherein the first biological quantity gives a more accurate indication of the health-related condition of the subject than the second biological quantity, wherein the first biological quantity and the second biological quantity have a correlation to the health-related condition of the subject, and wherein the second impact is smaller than the first impact; a predictor for providing, for a certain time, for which no sample for the first biological quantity exists, an estimated value of the first biological quantity using samples for the first biological quantity and, as far as available, samples for the second quantity; and an output interface for outputting the estimated value or data derived from the estimated value so that an indication for the health-related condition of the subject is obtained.

主权项

1. An apparatus for indicating a health-related condition of a subject, comprising:
an input interface for receiving a first raw sequence of samples of a first biological quantity derived by a first measurement method, and for receiving a second raw sequence of samples of a second biological quantity derived by a second measurement method; a predictor for providing, for a certain time, for which no sample for the first biological quantity exists, an estimated value of the first biological quantity as a predicted sample using samples for the second biological quantity and, as far as available, samples for the first biological quantity; a filter for filtering a sequence having samples of the first biological quantity and at least one predicted sample to obtain a filtered sequence, the filtered sequence having a useful variation and a reduced non-useful variation compared to the sequence before filtering, and an output interface for processing the filtered sequence and for outputting an indication of the health-related condition of the subject based on the filtered sequence.