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Record W4406485810 · doi:10.1039/d4an01496k

Optimized machine learning approaches to combine surface-enhanced Raman scattering and infrared data for trace detection of xylazine in illicit opioids

2025· article· en· W4406485810 on OpenAlexafffund
Rebecca R. Martens, Lea Gozdzialski, E. J. Newman, Chris G. Gill, Bruce Wallace, Dennis K. Hore

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Analyst · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldVeterinary
TopicVeterinary Pharmacology and Anesthesia
Canadian institutionsVancouver Island UniversityUniversity of Victoria
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchAlliance de recherche numérique du CanadaNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaVancouver FoundationCalifornia HIV/AIDS Research Program
KeywordsXylazineTRACE (psycholinguistics)InfraredRaman scatteringComputer scienceArtificial intelligenceMaterials scienceRaman spectroscopyAnesthesiaMedicinePhysicsOpticsKetamine

Abstract

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-nearest neighbor algorithms-were employed and optimized using a 5-fold cross-validation grid search for all fusion strategies. Validation results identified the random forest classifier as the optimal model for all fusion strategies, achieving high sensitivity (88% for hybrid, 92% for mid-level, and 96% for high-level) and specificity (88% for hybrid, mid-level, and high-level). The enhanced performance of the high-level fusion approach (F1 score of 92%) is demonstrated, effectively leveraging the surface-enhanced Raman data with a 90% voting weight, without compromising prediction accuracy (92%) when combined with infrared spectral data. This highlights the viability of a multi-instrument approach using data fusion and random forest classification to improve the detection of various components in complex opioid samples in a point-of-care setting.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.017

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.133
GPT teacher head0.338
Teacher spread0.204 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2025
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