Statistical Evaluation of Total Expiratory Breath Samples Collected throughout a Year: Reproducibility and Applicability toward Olfactory Sensor-Based Breath Diagnostics

Katsushige Inada; Hiroshi Kojima; Yukiko Cho-Isoda; Ryo Tamura; Gaku Imamura; Kosuke Minami; Takahiro Nemoto; Genki Yoshikawa

Article Statistical Evaluation of Total Expiratory Breath Samples Collected throughout a Year: Reproducibility and Applicability toward Olfactory Sensor-Based Breath Diagnostics

Katsushige Inada ; Hiroshi Kojima ; Yukiko Cho-Isoda ; Ryo Tamura (National Institute for Materials Science) ; Gaku Imamura (National Institute for Materials Science) ; Kosuke Minami (National Institute for Materials Science) ; Takahiro Nemoto (National Institute for Materials Science) ; Genki Yoshikawa (National Institute for Materials Science)

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Katsushige Inada, Hiroshi Kojima, Yukiko Cho-Isoda, Ryo Tamura, Gaku Imamura, Kosuke Minami, Takahiro Nemoto, Genki Yoshikawa. Statistical Evaluation of Total Expiratory Breath Samples Collected throughout a Year: Reproducibility and Applicability toward Olfactory Sensor-Based Breath Diagnostics. SENSORS. 2021, 21 (14), 4742-4742.

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The endogenous volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in exhaled breath can be promising biomarkers for various diseases including cancers. An olfactory sensor has a possibility for extracting a specific feature from collective variations of the related VOCs with a certain health condition. For this approach, it is important to establish a feasible protocol for sampling exhaled breath in practical conditions to provide reproducible signal features. Here we report a robust protocol for the breath analysis, focusing on total expiratory breath measured by a Membrane-type Surface stress Sensor (MSS), which possesses practical characteristics for artificial olfactory systems. To assess its reproducibility, 83 exhaled breath samples were collected from one subject throughout more than a year. It has been confirmed that the reduction of humidity effects on the sensing signals either by controlling the humidity of purging room air or by normalizing the signal intensities leads to reasonable reproducibility verified by statistical analyses. We have also demonstrated the applicability of the protocol for detecting a target material by discriminating exhaled breaths collected from different subjects with pre- and post-alcohol ingestion on different occasions. This simple yet reproducible protocol based on the total expiratory breath measured by the MSS olfactory sensors will contribute to exploring the possibilities of clinical applications of breath diagnostics.

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