Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Utilizing Machine Learning-Enabled Graphene-Based Smart Gas Sensors
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Abstract
Since its outbreak in December 2019, COVID-19 has rapidly spread around the world causing more than 759 million cumulative cases and more than 6.8 million cumulative deaths. To contain the pandemic, a highly sensitive, rapid, cost-efficient, simple-to-use, and noninvasive diagnosis for ruling out infection of COVID-19 at its early stage is crucial. Breath analysis is a promising approach for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 since it is noninvasive and easy to use. Most of current works on COVID-19 diagnosis using breath analysis are based on the analysis of the variation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) biomarkers in the exhaled breath due to COVID-19 infection, while there are few efforts reported on the direct detection of SARS-CoV-2 in exhaled aerosols. In this work, a novel approach for the rapid detection of aerosols containing SARS-CoV-2 antigen using a single-channel functionalized graphene-based chemiresistive nanosensor is presented. Multiple transient features are extracted from the acquired sensing response signal and utilized as fingerprints of antigen-containing aerosols. With the supervised machine learning model, a high prediction performance for effective detection is achieved, such as accuracy-97.2%, sensitivity-92.3%, and specificity-100%. This proof-of-concept work proposes the first steps toward an efficient and effective scheme to detect the SARS-CoV-2 antigen by breath analysis, which may facilitate a noninvasive, rapid, highly sensitive approach to COVID-19 diagnosis.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering, MetroXRAINE 2023 - Proceedings |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Pages | 995-999 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 979-8-3503-0080-2 |
| ISBN (print) | 979-8-3503-0081-9 |
| Publication status | Published - 2023 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Conference
| Title | 2nd Edition IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering |
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| Abbreviated title | MetroXRAINE 2023 |
| Conference number | 2 |
| Duration | 25 - 27 October 2023 |
| Website | |
| Location | FAST - Conference Center |
| City | Milano |
| Country | Italy |
External IDs
| ORCID | /0000-0002-9899-1409/work/189707421 |
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| ORCID | /0000-0002-3007-8840/work/189707737 |
| ORCID | /0000-0002-4349-793X/work/189708222 |
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Keywords
- COVID-19 diagnosis, graphene-based gas sensors, SARS-CoV-2 detection, supervised machine learning, transient features