Using edge pattern matching for automatic chemical identification in GCXGC

Mingtian Ni, Stephen E. Reichenbach

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Abstract

Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GCxGC) is a new technology for chemical separation. In GCxGC analysis, chemical identification is a critical task that can be performed by peak pattern matching. Peak pattern matching tries to identify the chemicals by establishing correspondences from the known peaks in a peak template to the unknown peaks in a target peak pattern. After the correspondences are established, information carried by known peaks are copied into the unknown peaks. The peaks in the target peak pattern are then identified. Using peak locations as the matching features, peak patterns can be represented as point patterns and the peak pattern matching problem becomes a point pattern matching problem. In GCxGC, the chemical separation process imposes an ordering constraint on peak retention time (peak location). Based on the ordering constraint, the matching technique proposed in this paper forms directed edge patterns from point patterns and then matches the point patterns by matching the edge patterns. Preliminary experiments on GCxGC peak patterns suggest that matching the edge patterns is much more efficient than matching the corresponding point patterns.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)155-163
Number of pages9
JournalProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume5426
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes
EventAutomatic Target Recognition XIV - Orlando, FL, United States
Duration: Apr 13 2004Apr 15 2004

Keywords

  • Chemical identification
  • Edge pattern matching
  • GCxGC
  • Peak pattern matching
  • Point pattern matching

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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