
About Technology
Reagentless AI spectroscopy system for Lab-grade and real-time analyte quantification in healthcare and agriculture.
BB-SPECTRAL is an artificial intelligence (AI) technology for quantify and categorized chemical compounds using spectral information of highly complex samples (e.g. blood).
Inventors
Rui Costa Martins
Licensing Contacts
Marta Vranas
Problem
Current approaches for spectral analysis comprise artificial neural networks (ANN) and non-linear support vector machines (SVM), which attempt to create complex function models that fit to all data. This strategy fails at analyzing complex samples, requiring large amounts of data, being unable of detecting outliers, and encompassing high computational costs.
Solution
Reagentless AI spectroscopy system for Lab-grade and real-time analyte quantification in healthcare and agriculture.
BB-SPECTRAL is an artificial intelligence (AI) technology for quantify and categorized chemical compounds using spectral information of highly complex samples (e.g. blood). Avoiding the use of reagents, BB-SPECTRAL is able to predict compounds concentrations with an accuracy of about 90% in comparison to the laboratorial results (gold standard).
Explaining to humans the spectral data extracted from samples, BB-SPECTRAL is unique at establishing its own knowledgebase, indicating 'a priori' the predictability, accuracy and precision of new estimates. This technology is applicable to all regions of the electro-magnetic spectra used in spectroscopy analysis, or with any other type of spectroscopy where complex multi-scale interference and chemical/biological variability is present.
Unique benefits
Self-learning capability
Works with a wide range of spectral data (spectroscopy analysis (X-ray, UV, vis, nIR, IR, far-IR and microwaves)
Extends non-destructive, non-invasive spectroscopy applications to a high number of Industries
Avoids the use of reagents
Use Cases
Clinical assessment of biological targets in healthy and pathological conditions (Medicine and Veterinary)
Quality control in Agro-Food
Materials characterisation
Technology Details
Commercial Rights
License Status
Technology Area(s)
Medical Technology
Impact Area(s)
Scientific Publications
Point-of-care Vis-SWNIR spectroscopy towards reagent-less hemogram analysis
Point-of-Care Using Vis-NIR Spectroscopy for White Blood Cell Count Analysis
Reagentless Vis-NIR Spectroscopy Point-of-Care for Feline Total White Blood Cell Counts
Intellectual Property
Demos
Reagent Point-of-Care for Veterinary Applications



