scholarly journals Deep Convolutional Neural Networks as a Unified Solution for Raman Spectroscopy-Based Classification in Biomedical Applications

Author(s):  
Mohammadrahim Kazemzadeh ◽  
Colin Hisey ◽  
Kamran Zargar ◽  
Peter Xu ◽  
Neil Broderick

<div>Machine learning has shown great potential for classifying diverse samples in biomedical applications based on their Raman spectra. However, the acquired spectra typically require several preprocessing steps before standard machine learning algorithms can accurately and reliably classify them. To simplify this workflow and enable future growth of this technology, we present a unified solution for classifying biological Raman spectra without any need of prepossessing, including denoising and baseline establishment. This method is developed based on a custom version of a convolutional neural network (CNN) elicited from ResNet architecture, combined with our proposed data augmentation technique. The superiority of this method compared to conventional classification techniques is shown by applying it to Raman spectra of different grades of bladder cancer tissue and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) spectra of various strains of E. Coli extracellular vesicles (EVs). These results show that our method is far more robust compared to its conventional counterparts when dealing with the various kinds of spectral baselines produced by different Raman spectrometers.</div>

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammadrahim Kazemzadeh ◽  
Colin Hisey ◽  
Kamran Zargar ◽  
Peter Xu ◽  
Neil Broderick

<div>Machine learning has shown great potential for classifying diverse samples in biomedical applications based on their Raman spectra. However, the acquired spectra typically require several preprocessing steps before standard machine learning algorithms can accurately and reliably classify them. To simplify this workflow and enable future growth of this technology, we present a unified solution for classifying biological Raman spectra without any need of prepossessing, including denoising and baseline establishment. This method is developed based on a custom version of a convolutional neural network (CNN) elicited from ResNet architecture, combined with our proposed data augmentation technique. The superiority of this method compared to conventional classification techniques is shown by applying it to Raman spectra of different grades of bladder cancer tissue and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) spectra of various strains of E. Coli extracellular vesicles (EVs). These results show that our method is far more robust compared to its conventional counterparts when dealing with the various kinds of spectral baselines produced by different Raman spectrometers.</div>


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia-Wei Tang ◽  
Qing-Hua Liu ◽  
Xiao-Cong Yin ◽  
Ya-Cheng Pan ◽  
Peng-Bo Wen ◽  
...  

Raman spectroscopy (RS) is a widely used analytical technique based on the detection of molecular vibrations in a defined system, which generates Raman spectra that contain unique and highly resolved fingerprints of the system. However, the low intensity of normal Raman scattering effect greatly hinders its application. Recently, the newly emerged surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) technique overcomes the problem by mixing metal nanoparticles such as gold and silver with samples, which greatly enhances signal intensity of Raman effects by orders of magnitudes when compared with regular RS. In clinical and research laboratories, SERS provides a great potential for fast, sensitive, label-free, and non-destructive microbial detection and identification with the assistance of appropriate machine learning (ML) algorithms. However, choosing an appropriate algorithm for a specific group of bacterial species remains challenging, because with the large volumes of data generated during SERS analysis not all algorithms could achieve a relatively high accuracy. In this study, we compared three unsupervised machine learning methods and 10 supervised machine learning methods, respectively, on 2,752 SERS spectra from 117 Staphylococcus strains belonging to nine clinically important Staphylococcus species in order to test the capacity of different machine learning methods for bacterial rapid differentiation and accurate prediction. According to the results, density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) showed the best clustering capacity (Rand index 0.9733) while convolutional neural network (CNN) topped all other supervised machine learning methods as the best model for predicting Staphylococcus species via SERS spectra (ACC 98.21%, AUC 99.93%). Taken together, this study shows that machine learning methods are capable of distinguishing closely related Staphylococcus species and therefore have great application potentials for bacterial pathogen diagnosis in clinical settings.


2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaosong Ge ◽  
Xueliang Lin ◽  
Zhihong Xu ◽  
Guoqiang Wei ◽  
Wei Huang ◽  
...  

Nanomedicine ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (24) ◽  
pp. 2175-2188
Author(s):  
Stacy Grieve ◽  
Nagaprasad Puvvada ◽  
Angkoon Phinyomark ◽  
Kevin Russell ◽  
Alli Murugesan ◽  
...  

Aim: Monitoring minimal residual disease remains a challenge to the effective medical management of hematological malignancies; yet surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has emerged as a potential clinical tool to do so. Materials & methods: We developed a cell-free, label-free SERS approach using gold nanoparticles (nanoSERS) to classify hematological malignancies referenced against two control cohorts: healthy and noncancer cardiovascular disease. A predictive model was built using machine-learning algorithms to incorporate disease burden scores for patients under standard treatment upon. Results: Linear- and quadratic-discriminant analysis distinguished three cohorts with 69.8 and 71.4% accuracies, respectively. A predictive nanoSERS model correlated (MSE = 1.6) with established clinical parameters. Conclusion: This study offers a proof-of-concept for the noninvasive monitoring of disease progression, highlighting the potential to incorporate nanoSERS into translational medicine.


The Analyst ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 145 (14) ◽  
pp. 4827-4835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shizhuang Weng ◽  
Hecai Yuan ◽  
Xueyan Zhang ◽  
Pan Li ◽  
Ling Zheng ◽  
...  

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) based on machine learning methods has been applied in material analysis, biological detection, food safety, and intelligent analysis.


1994 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 545-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Todd ◽  
Michael D. Morris

Surface-enhanced Raman spectra have been obtained within intact zebrafish embryos and inside the 500-fL pores of a Nucleopore filter membrane with the use of coated microelectrodes with 1–3 μm active silver tip diameters. The spectra obtained demonstrate the microelectrode's ability to penetrate biological membranes as well as restricted volumes.


Author(s):  
Anil K. Kodali ◽  
Rohit Bhargava

This article describes the use of nanostructured probes to enhance optical and vibrational spectroscopic imaging for biomedical applications. Engineered probes and surfaces are promising tools for enhancing signals for ultrasensitive detection of diseases like carcinoma. Two methods of interest are surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA) spectroscopy and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) for IR and Raman modalities, respectively. SERS and SEIRA can be broadly categorized under a common modality termed surface-enhanced vibrational spectroscopy. This article first reviews various breakthrough findings reported in SERS and SEIRA, along with different types ofsubstrates and contrast agents used in realizing the enhancement and theories proposed to explain these findings. It then considers the configurations of nano-LAMPs and presents example results demonstrating their optical resonances and tunability. Finally, it evaluates a few techniques for fabricating multilayered nanoparticles and highlights some issues with respect to fabrication.


Author(s):  
Xin Huang ◽  
Ling Hong ◽  
Yuanyuan Wu ◽  
Miaoxin Chen ◽  
Pengcheng Kong ◽  
...  

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine and metabolic disorder in reproductive women where abnormal folliculogenesis is considered as a common characteristic. Our aim is to evaluate the potential of follicular fluid (FF) Raman spectra to predict embryo development and pregnancy outcome, so as to prioritize the best promising embryo for implantation, reducing both physiological and economical burdens of PCOS patients. In addition, the altered metabolic profiles will be identified to explore the aetiology and pathobiology of PCOS. In this study, follicular fluid samples obtained from 150 PCOS and 150 non-PCOS women were measured with Raman spectroscopy. Individual Raman spectrum was analyzed to find biologic components contributing to the occurrence of PCOS. More importantly, the Raman spectra of follicular fluid from the 150 PCOS patients were analyzed via machine-learning algorithms to evaluate their predictive value for oocyte development potential and clinical pregnancy. Mean-centered Raman spectra and principal component analysis (PCA) showed global differences in the footprints of follicular fluid between PCOS and non-PCOS women. Two Raman zones (993–1,165 cm−1 and 1,439–1,678 cm−1) were identified for describing the largest variances between the two groups, with the former higher and the latter lower in PCOS FF. The tentative assignments of corresponding Raman bands included phenylalanine and β -carotene. Moreover, it was found that FF, in which oocytes would develop into high-quality blastocysts and obtain high clinical pregnancy rate, were detected with lower quantification of the integration at 993–1,165 cm−1 and higher quantification of the integration at 1,439–1,678 cm−1 in PCOS. In addition, based on Raman spectra of PCOS FF, the machine-learning algorithms via the fully connected artificial neural network (ANN) achieved the overall accuracies of 90 and 74% in correctly assigning oocyte developmental potential and clinical pregnancy, respectively. The study suggests that the PCOS displays unique metabolic profiles in follicular fluid which could be detected by Raman spectroscopy. Specific bands in Raman spectra have the biomarker potential to predict the embryo development and pregnancy outcome for PCOS patients. Importantly, these data may provide some valuable biochemical information and metabolic signatures that will help us to understand the abnormal follicular development in PCOS.


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