Rapid detection of cholecystitis by serum fluorescence spectroscopy combined with machine learning.

Journal: Journal of biophotonics
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Abstract

While cholecystitis is a critical public health problem, the conventional diagnostic methods for its detection are time consuming, expensive and insufficiently sensitive. This study examined the possibility of using serum fluorescence spectroscopy and machine learning for the rapid and accurate identification of patients with cholecystitis. Significant differences were observed between the fluorescence spectral intensities of the serum of cholecystitis patients (n = 74) serum and those of healthy subjects (n = 71) at 455, 480, 485, 515, 625 and 690 nm. The ratios of characteristic fluorescence spectral peak intensities were first calculated, and principal component analysis (PCA)-linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and PCA-support vector machine (SVM) classification models were then constructed using the ratios as variables. Compared with the PCA-LDA model, the PCA-SVM model displayed better diagnostic performance in differentiating cholecystitis patients from healthy subjects, with an overall accuracy of 96.55%. This exploratory study showed that serum fluorescence spectroscopy combined with the PCA-SVM algorithm has significant potential for the development of a rapid cholecystitis screening method.

Authors

  • Jingrui Dou
    State Key Laboratory of Pathogenesis, Prevention, and Treatment of Central Asian High Incidence Diseases, Clinical Medical Research Institute, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, China.
  • Wubulitalifu Dawuti
    State Key Laboratory of Pathogenesis, Prevention, and Treatment of Central Asian High Incidence Diseases, Clinical Medical Research Institute, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, China.
  • Jing Zhou
  • Jintian Li
    CAS Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Stake Key Laboratory of Drug Research; Drug Discovery and Design Center, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201203, China.
  • Rui Zhang
    Department of Cardiology, Zhongda Hospital, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
  • Xiangxiang Zheng
    School of Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China.
  • Renyong Lin
    State Key Laboratory of Pathogenesis, Prevention, and Treatment of Central Asian High Incidence Diseases, Clinical Medical Research Institute, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, China.
  • Guodong Lü
    State Key Laboratory of Pathogenesis, Prevention, and Treatment of Central Asian High Incidence Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi 830054, Xinjiang, China.