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Machine Learning-Enabled Image Analysis of Complex Chemical Mixtures: Synthetic Urine Droplets as a Test System.

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Τίτλος: Machine Learning-Enabled Image Analysis of Complex Chemical Mixtures: Synthetic Urine Droplets as a Test System.
Συγγραφείς: S V A; Florida State University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4390, United States., Dangi BB; Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Department of Chemistry, Tallahassee, Florida 32307, United States., Steinbock O; Florida State University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4390, United States.
Πηγή: Analytical chemistry [Anal Chem] 2026 Jul 14; Vol. 98 (27), pp. 20563-20571. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Jul 03.
Τύπος έκδοσης: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Γλώσσα: English
Στοιχεία περιοδικού: Publisher: American Chemical Society Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0370536 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1520-6882 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00032700 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Anal Chem Subsets: MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s): Original Publication: Washington, American Chemical Society.
Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): Complex Mixtures*/analysis , Urine*/chemistry , Machine Learning* , Image Processing, Computer-Assisted*, Urea/urine ; Urea/analysis ; Sodium Chloride/urine ; Sodium Chloride/analysis ; Potassium Chloride/urine ; Potassium Chloride/analysis ; Creatinine/urine ; Glucose/analysis ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; Humans
Περίληψη: Dried droplet deposits encode compositional information through evaporation-driven self-organization, offering a potential low-cost sensing modality for chemical analyses. Here, we evaluate the feasibility of inferring solute concentrations and pH from photographic images of dried synthetic urine stains by using automated experimentation and machine learning. A robotic droplet imager (RODI) combined with Latin hypercube sampling was employed to efficiently explore compositional space and generate standardized data sets comprising 70,000 images across two experimental systems: a two-component urea-NaCl model and seven-component synthetic urine mixtures spanning physiologically relevant ranges for urea, NaCl, KCl, creatinine, glucose, a combined salt group, and pH. Each image was reduced to 47 descriptors, capturing spatial morphology and texture. Random Forest regression yielded useful predictive performance for NaCl in the two-component system and identified pH as the most robustly inferred parameter in the complex mixture. However, continuous prediction of individual solute concentrations in the seven-component system remained limited, possibly due to the sparsity of training points across the high-dimensional compositional space. These findings delineate both the current capabilities and information-theoretic constraints of image-based compositional inference for complex chemical mixtures.
Substance Nomenclature: 8W8T17847W (Urea)
451W47IQ8X (Sodium Chloride)
660YQ98I10 (Potassium Chloride)
AYI8EX34EU (Creatinine)
IY9XDZ35W2 (Glucose)
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Entry Date(s): Date Created: 20260703 Date Completed: 20260714 Latest Revision: 20260721
Update Code: 20260722
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.6c02602
PMID: 42396863
Βάση Δεδομένων: MEDLINE
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