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Comparing molecular representations, e-nose signals, and other featurization, for learning to smell aroma molecules

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  • Tanoy Debnath
  • Samy Badreddine
  • Priyadarshini Kumari
  • Michael Spranger

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Recent research has attempted to predict our perception of odorants using Machine Learning models. The featurization of the olfactory stimuli usually represents the odorants using molecular structure parameters, molecular fingerprints, mass spectra, or e-nose signals. However, the impact of the choice of featurization on predictive performance remains poorly reported in direct comparative studies. This paper experiments with different sensory features for several olfactory perception tasks. We investigate the multilabel classification of aroma molecules in odor descriptors. We investigate single-label classification not only in fine-grained odor descriptors (‘orange’, ‘waxy’, etc.), but also in odor descriptor groups. We created a database of odor vectors for 114 aroma molecules to conduct our experiments using a QCM (Quartz Crystal Microbalance) type smell sensor module (Aroma Coder®V2 Set). We compare these smell features with different baseline features to evaluate the cluster composition, considering the frequencies of the top odor descriptors carried by the aroma molecules. Experimental results suggest a statistically significant better performance of the QCM type smell sensor module compared with other baseline features with F1 evaluation metric.

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  • Tanoy Debnath & Samy Badreddine & Priyadarshini Kumari & Michael Spranger, 2023. "Comparing molecular representations, e-nose signals, and other featurization, for learning to smell aroma molecules," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(8), pages 1-14, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0289881
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289881
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    1. Yuji Nozaki & Takamichi Nakamoto, 2016. "Odor Impression Prediction from Mass Spectra," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(6), pages 1-15, June.
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