Title
Deep Neural Network-Assisted Microfluidic pH Sensor
Date Issued
15 April 2025
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
other
Author(s)
Armas Alvarado, MarÃa Elisia
Ventura-Grandez, Henry E.
Quevedo, Jonathan
Salazar-Reque, Itamar
Adanaque-Infante, Luz
Rubio-Noriega, Ruth
Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Capacitación de Telecomunicaciones
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Abstract
Water pH measurement is vital as it provides fundamental information about its quality and suitability for agriculture, aquatic ecosystems, industry, and human consumption. Each of these applications may require numerical readings of acidity or alkalinity, preferably using tools that are already ubiquitous, such as cellphones. This work presents a microfluidic lab-on-a-chip system to measure the pH of liquid samples. We used purple cabbage as the colorimetric reagent to produce a 2640-image dataset with pH levels in the range of [2–12] on a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidic recipient. We fed our dataset to our parameterized deep neural network (DNN) to classify our samples and found an accuracy of 99.7%. In addition, we developed a mobile application with an easy-to-use graphic user interface that recognizes the microfluidic device shape, classifies the image’s color, and returns the pH level.
Volume
25
Issue
8
Subjects
Publication version
Version of Record
Handle or URL
Resource of which it is part
IEEE Sensors Journal
ISSN of the container
1558-1748