Fluorescence spectral shape analysis for fast COVID-19 virus identification: machine learning approach

Haoxiang Huang; Yuelan Zhang; Robert Gardner; Zhitao Kang; Brent Wagner

doi:10.1117/12.2582403

20 September 2020 Fluorescence spectral shape analysis for fast COVID-19 virus identification: machine learning approach

Haoxiang Huang, Yuelan Zhang, Robert Gardner, Zhitao Kang, Brent Wagner

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Proceedings Volume 11528, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XXII; 115280W (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2582403
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2020, Online Only

Abstract

Fast and reliable tests for the new coronavirus are urgently needed. Current Polymerase Chain Reaction based virus detection approaches are typically time-consuming and expensive. Technologies capable of providing a fast, real-time and non-contact detection of virus contamination and real-time virus classification are not yet available. Here, we demonstrate the potential of a fluorescence detection technique along with machine-learning based classification for virus detection. The ultraviolet (UV) light irradiated virus emits a fluorescent signal with a characteristic spectrum, which is regarded as a fingerprint for the virus. We analyzed eight virus samples including a heat-inactivated SARS-CoV-2 (virus causing COVID-19) and collected a number of emission spectra. Machine learning techniques are applied to discriminate among the candidate viruses via classifying a number of spectra data collected. First, Principle Component Analysis (PCA) was applied to reduce spectra data dimensionality. Then support vector machine (SVM) with various kernel functions (kernelSVM), k-nearest-neighbor (k-NN) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) methods were used to classify these viruses with dimension-reduced data from PCA. We found that dimension-reduced data in 3 principal components (PCs) space performs better than that in 2 PCs space in the machine learning algorithms mentioned above. Variance ratio analysis is able to explain nearly 95% of variance which allows nearly 100% accuracy of predictions for 25% data test set randomly chosen from the whole dataset. Finally, cross validation (CV) analysis is applied to kernel-SVM and k-NN methods.

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Haoxiang Huang, Yuelan Zhang, Robert Gardner, Zhitao Kang, and Brent Wagner "Fluorescence spectral shape analysis for fast COVID-19 virus identification: machine learning approach", Proc. SPIE 11528, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XXII, 115280W (20 September 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2582403

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