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Beyond fixed thresholds: optimizing summaries of wearable device data via piecewise linearization of quantile functions
Junyoung Park, Neo Kok, Irina Gaynanova
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Wearable devices, such as actigraphy monitors and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), capture high-frequency data, which are often summarized by the percentages of time spent within fixed thresholds. For example, actigraphy data are categorized into sedentary, light, and moderate-to-vigorous activity, while CGM data are divided into hypoglycemia, normoglycemia, and hyperglycemia based on a standard glucose range of 70x2013180 mg/dL. Although scientific and clinical guidelines inform the choice of thresholds, it remains unclear whether this choice is optimal and whether the same thresholds should be applied across different populations. In this work, we define threshold optimality with loss functions that quantify discrepancies between the full empirical distributions of wearable device measurements and their discretizations based on specific thresholds. We introduce two loss functions: one that aims to accurately reconstruct the original distributions and another that preserves the pairwise sample distances. Using the Wasserstein distance as the base measure, we reformulate the loss minimization as optimal piecewise linearization of quantile functions. We solve this optimization via stepwise algorithms and differential evolution. We also formulate semi-supervised approaches where some thresholds are predefined based on scientific rationale. Applications to CGM data from two distinct populationsx2014individuals with type 1 diabetes and those with normal glycemic controlx2014demonstrate that data-driven thresholds vary by population and improve discriminative power over fixed thresholds.
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