Journal
ACS SENSORS
Volume 7, Issue 6, Pages 1720-1731Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.2c00467
Keywords
sensor array; bladder cancer; urine; volatile organic compound; electronic nose
Funding
- Open Fund of Zhejiang Lab [2021MC0AB02]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [22104117, 81972488, 91959204, 81871197]
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This study reports on a cost-efficient artificially intelligent chemiresistive sensor array that can noninvasively diagnose bladder cancer at an early stage and maintain postoperative surveillance through smelling clinical urine samples. Clinical trials show that the system achieves very high sensitivity and accuracy in diagnosing both healthy controls and bladder cancer patients.
Globally, bladder cancer (BLC) is one of the most common cancers and has a high recurrence and mortality rate. Current clinical diagnostic approaches are either invasive or inaccurate. Here, we report on a cost-efficient, artificially intelligent chemiresistive sensor array made of polyaniline (PANI) derivatives that can noninvasively diagnose BLC at an early stage and maintain postoperative surveillance through smelling clinical urine samples at room temperature. In clinical trials, 18 healthy controls and 76 BLC patients (60 and 16 at early and advanced stages, respectively) are assessed by the artificial olfactory system. With the assistance of a support vector machine (SVM), very high sensitivity and accuracy from healthy controls are achieved, exceeding those obtained by the current techniques in practice. In addition, the recurrences of both early and advanced stages are diagnosed well, with the effect of confounding factors on the performance of the artificial olfactory system found to have a negligible influence on the diagnostic performance. Overall, this study contributes a novel, noninvasive, easy-to-use, inexpensive, real-time, accurate method for urine disease diagnosis, which can be useful for personalized care/diagnosis and postoperative surveillance, resulting in saving more lives.
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