1. Repeatability Study on a Classifier for Gastric Cancer Detection from Breath Sensor Data
- Author
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Edgars Vasiljevs, Inese Polaka, Hossam Haick, Juha M. Kortelainen, Marcis Leja, Emmi Turppa, and Gidi Shani
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business.industry ,Breath sensor ,Healthy subjects ,02 engineering and technology ,Cancer detection ,Repeatability ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient ,03 medical and health sciences ,symbols.namesake ,0302 clinical medicine ,SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being ,Volatile organic compunds ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Classification result ,symbols ,Medicine ,Decision support for health ,0210 nano-technology ,business ,Gastric cancer ,Classifier (UML) ,Biomedical engineering - Abstract
The SNIFFPHONE device is a portable multichannel gas sensor, aiming to detect gastric cancer (GC) from breath samples. It employs gold nanoparticle (GNP) sensors reacting to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the exhaled breath, a non-invasive technique to support early diagnosis. This study evaluates the repeatability of the SNIFFPHONE classification result for measurements conducted on healthy subjects over a short period of time of less than 10 minutes. Due to the portable nature of the device, repeatability is studied with respect to varying measurement location. We find the classification results repeatable with a statistically significant 81 % Pearson correlation coefficient, even though the raw sensor responses are not concluded repeatable.
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- 2019