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ArticleIEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions2020

Signal Processing Methods to Interpret Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Airborne Samples.

Ryan A McCarthy, Ananya Sen Gupta, Bernice Kubicek, Andrew M Awad, Andres Martinez, Rachel F Marek, Keri C Hornbuckle

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7 authors.

Ryan A McCarthyDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA.
Ananya Sen GuptaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA.
Bernice KubicekDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA.
Andrew M AwadDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering and IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA.
Andres MartinezDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering and IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA.
Rachel F MarekDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering and IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA.
Keri C HornbuckleDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering and IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA.

Funding

Training CoreP42ES013661 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI HANS-JOACHIM LEHMLER · 2006 to 2026
$60.3M
Pulmonary Toxicology Facility CoreP30ES005605 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI Brandi Janssen · 1990 to 2026
$40.5M
NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES005605NIEHS NIH HHS P42 ES013661
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The main contribution of this interdisciplinary work is a robust computational framework to autonomously discover and quantify previously unknown associations between well-known (target) and potentially unknown (non-target) toxic industrial air pollutants. In this work, the variability of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) data is evaluated using a combination of statistical, signal processing, and graph-based informatics techniques to interpret the raw instrument signal from gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS/MS) data sets. Specifically, minimum mean-squared techniques from the adaptive signal processing literature are extended to detect and separate coeluted (overlapped) peaks in the raw instrument signal. A graph-based visualization is provided which bridges two complementary approaches to quantitative pollution studies: (i) peak-cognizant target analysis (limits data analysis to few well-known compounds) and (ii) chemometric analysis (statistical large-scale data analysis) that is agnostic of specific compounds. Further, peak fitting techniques based on L2 error minimization are employed to autonomously calculate the amount of each PCB present with a normalized mean square error of -18.4851 dB. Graph-based visualization of associations between known and unknown compounds are developed through principal component analysis and both fuzzy c-means (FCM) and k-means clustering techniques are implemented and compared. The efficiency of these methods are compared using 150 air samples analyzed for individual PCBs with GC/MS/MS against traditional target-only techniques that perform analysis across only the known (target) PCBs. Parameter optimization techniques are employed to evaluate the relative contribution of PCB signals against ten potential source signals representing legacy signatures from historical manufacture of Aroclors and modern sources of PCBs produced as by products of pigment and polymer manufacturing. Aroclors 1232, 1254, 1016, and 1221 as well as non-Aroclor 3, 3', dichlorobiphenyl (PCB 11) were found in many of the samples as unique source signals that describe PCB mixtures in air samples collected from Chicago, IL.

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Identifying SourcesInterpreting GC/MS/MSPCBsSignal Processing

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PMID33335823
PMCPMC7742762

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