Mass Spectrometry

Biography

Biography: Saranjam Khan

Abstract

We are presenting the evaluation of Raman spectroscopy as rapid daignostics test for the detection of disease in thehuman blood serum. Blood samples of 84 clinically dengue suspected patients has been used in this study. Out of these 84 sample (95%) were positive based on nonstructural protein 1 (NS1), whereas(50%) and (52%) were positive based on Immunoglobulin G (IgG) and Immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies tests, respectively. Raman spectra from all these samples have been acquired in the spectral range from 600 cm-1 to 1700 cm-1 using 532 nm laser as an excitation source. The Raman spectra from normal healthy blood sera have also been obtained in the same spectral range under the same conditions. In the Raman spectra of normal samples three intense Raman-peaks have been observed at 1006, 1156 and 1516 cm-1. In the Raman spectra of dengue infected blood sera the intensity these three major peaks get suppressed whereas additional peak gets appearat 750, 855, 1032, 1306, 1333, 1355, 1580, 1603 and 1660 cm-1. The spectral differences between normal and abnormal (dengue infected) sera have been evaluated by using support vector machine (SVM) techniques. SVM models has been developed on the basis of three different kernel functions i.e. polynomial, linear, and Gaussian radial basis function (RBF). The model has been tested with the k-fold cross validation method. A diagnostic accuracy of about 85% with the precision of 90%, sensitivity of 73% and specificity of 93% has been achieved under these conditions.