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Improved Vapor Recognition in Electronic Nose (E-Nose) System by Using the Time-Profile of Sensor Array Response  

Yoon Seok, Yang (Bio-MEMS Team, Basic Research Laboratory, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI))
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Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research / v.25, no.5, 2004 , pp. 329-334 More about this Journal
Abstract
The electronic nose (E-nose) recently finds its applications in medical diagnosis, specifically on detection of diabetes, pulmonary or gastrointestinal problem, or infections by examining odors in the breath or tissues with its odor characterizing ability. The odor recognition performance of E-nose can be improved by manipulating the sensor array responses of vapors in time-profile forms. The different chemical interactions between the sensor materials and the volatile organic compounds (VOC's) leave unique marks in the signal profiles giving more information than collection of the conventional piecemal features, i.e., maximum sensitivity, signal slopes, rising time. In this study, to use them in vapor recognition task conveniently, a novel time-profile method was proposed, which is adopted from digital image pattern matching. The degrees of matching between 8 different vapors were evaluated by using the proposed method. The test vapors are measured by the silicon-based gas sensor array with 16 CB-polymer composites installed in membrane structure. The results by the proposed method showed clear discrimination of vapor species than by the conventional method.
Keywords
Electronic nose (E-nose); Medical diagnosis; Volatile organic compound (VOC); Vapor recognition; Pattern matching; Response profile; Gas sensor array;
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