Detection of Staphylococcus aureus in milk samples using impedance spectroscopy and data processing with information visualization techniques and multidimensional calibration space.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Early diagnosis of cattle diseases such as mastitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) can be made effective if on-site detection methods with portable instruments are available. In this work, we fabricated immunosensors based on a layer-by-layer (LbL) film of chitosan and carbon nanotubes coated with a layer of antibodies to detect S. aureus. Using electrical and electrochemical impedance spectroscopies, detection was possible in buffer solutions and in milk with limits of detection which could be as low as 2.6 CFU/mL for milk,sufficient to detect mastitis at early stages. This high sensitivity is ascribed to the specific interactions involving the antibodies, as demonstrated with polarization-modulated infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy (PMIRRAS). The selectivity of the immunosensor was verified by distinguishing S. aureus-containing samples from possible interferents found in milk, for which the interactive document mapping (IDMAP) was employed.Because the interferents affected the spectra, in spite of this distinguishability, we treated the data with a machine learning technique with decision tree models. A multidimensional calibration space was then obtained with rules that permit interpretability and predictability in detecting S. aureus in matrices with high variability as in milk.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".