Failure to adequately monitor blood glucose exposes people with diabetes to acute and chronic complications driven by recurrent hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, requiring technologies that enable reliable glycemic assessment. Non-invasive glucose monitoring forecasting supports real-time decision support and safer insulin therapy. However, since glucose dynamics are governed by nonlinear physiology, continuous-sensing delays and noise, and partially observed exogenous inputs such as meals, stress, and physical activity, an accurate prediction remains challenging. This paper proposes a hybrid, physics-informed methodology for predicting uncertain glucose dynamics that couples mechanistic glucose-insulin modeling with flexible machinelearning components. The approach embeds known physiological structure directly into the learning process, while data-driven modules capture residual effects, patient-specific variability, and unmeasured disturbances. To represent intrinsic randomness and improve physical fidelity, we formulate a stochastic glucose-insulin model based on Wong-Zakai corrected stochastic differential equations, enabling a more realistic description of nonlinear relationships such as insulin concentration-dependent degradation as well as the presence of multiplicative noise. We validate the proposed methodology on real-world continuous glucose monitoring data, benchmarking against a traditional purely data-driven baseline. The results highlight the value of stochastic, physics-informed hybrid modeling as a practical path toward interpretable and reliable glucose prediction under real-life variability.

Physics-Informed Prediction of Uncertain Glucose Dynamics: Integrating Wong-Zakai Corrected Stochastic Differential Equations with Machine Learning

Laudani, Rossella;Ruggeri, Armando;Villari, Massimo
2026-01-01

Abstract

Failure to adequately monitor blood glucose exposes people with diabetes to acute and chronic complications driven by recurrent hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, requiring technologies that enable reliable glycemic assessment. Non-invasive glucose monitoring forecasting supports real-time decision support and safer insulin therapy. However, since glucose dynamics are governed by nonlinear physiology, continuous-sensing delays and noise, and partially observed exogenous inputs such as meals, stress, and physical activity, an accurate prediction remains challenging. This paper proposes a hybrid, physics-informed methodology for predicting uncertain glucose dynamics that couples mechanistic glucose-insulin modeling with flexible machinelearning components. The approach embeds known physiological structure directly into the learning process, while data-driven modules capture residual effects, patient-specific variability, and unmeasured disturbances. To represent intrinsic randomness and improve physical fidelity, we formulate a stochastic glucose-insulin model based on Wong-Zakai corrected stochastic differential equations, enabling a more realistic description of nonlinear relationships such as insulin concentration-dependent degradation as well as the presence of multiplicative noise. We validate the proposed methodology on real-world continuous glucose monitoring data, benchmarking against a traditional purely data-driven baseline. The results highlight the value of stochastic, physics-informed hybrid modeling as a practical path toward interpretable and reliable glucose prediction under real-life variability.
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