Systems and Methods for Identifying Classes of Substances
AssigneeUniversity of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
InventorsMichael Sigman, Mary Williams
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a system and a method for identifying the class of a component of a mixture includes collecting samples from a sample source, determining a summed ion spectrum for each sample and generating sample data from the summed ion spectra, comparing the sample data with reference summed ion spectra of multiple reference substances to determine correlations between the reference substances and the sample data, and evaluating the correlations of the substances of each substance class to determine which substance class most closely correlates to the sample data.
Claims23
A method for identifying a class of a component of a mixture in a sample, the method performed by a computer-based system having one or more I/O device and an instruction execution system, the method comprising:
- receiving ion intensity information obtained from the component of the mixture in the sample by the one or more I/O device;
- determining, by the instruction execution system, summed ion spectra from the ion intensity information;
- generating, by the instruction execution system, sample data from the summed ion spectra;
- comparing, by the instruction execution system, the sample data with reference summed ion spectra of multiple reference substances to determine correlations between the reference substances and the sample data, each reference substance belonging to a particular substance class;
- and
- identifying, by the instruction execution system, the class of the component of the mixture in the sample by evaluating the correlations of substance classes to determine which substance class most closely correlates to the sample data.
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A system for identifying a class of a component of a mixture, the system comprising:
- a processing device;
- and
- memory accessible by the processing device, the memory storing a substance classification system that when executed by the processing device is configured to cause the processing device to:
- obtain sample data associated with summed ion spectra of samples of the mixture via at least one of a local interface and an I/O device,
- compare the sample data with reference summed ion spectra of multiple reference substances to determine correlations between the reference substances and the sample data, each reference substance belonging to a particular substance class, and
- identify the class of the component of the mixture by evaluating the correlations of the substances of each substance class to determine which substance class most closely correlates to the sample data.
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A computer-readable medium that stores a substance classification system, the substance classification system comprising:
- logic configured to obtain summed ion spectra via at least one of a local interface and an I/O device and generate sample data from the summed ion spectra;
- logic configured to compare sample data associated with summed ion spectra of samples of the mixture with reference summed ion spectra of multiple reference substances to determine correlations between the reference substances and the sample data, each reference substance belonging to a particular substance class;
- and
- logic configured to evaluate the correlations of the substances of each substance class to determine which substance class most closely correlates to the sample data.
-29. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.