Latifah Munirah Kamarudin
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Latifah Munirah Kamarudin
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Kamarudin, Latifah Munirah
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Kamarudin, Latifah Munirah
Kamarudin, Latifah M.
Kamarudin, L. M.
Kamarudin, Munirah L.
Kamarudin, L.
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G-8267-2016

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  • Publication
    Improved maturity and ripeness classifications of Magnifera Indica cv. Harumanis Mangoes through sensor fusion of an electronic nose and acoustic sensor
    ( 2012)
    Ammar Zakaria
    ;
    Ali Yeon Md Shakaff
    ;
    Masnan, Maz Jamilah
    ;
    Fathinul Syahir Ahmad Sa'ad
    ;
    Abdul Hamid Adom
    ;
    Mohd Noor Ahmad
    ;
    Mahmad Nor Jaafar
    ;
    Abu Hassan Abdullah
    ;
    Latifah Munirah Kamarudin
    In recent years, there have been a number of reported studies on the use of non-destructive techniques to evaluate and determine mango maturity and ripeness levels. However, most of these reported works were conducted using single-modality sensing systems, either using an electronic nose, acoustics or other non-destructive measurements. This paper presents the work on the classification of mangoes (Magnifera Indica cv. Harumanis) maturity and ripeness levels using fusion of the data of an electronic nose and an acoustic sensor. Three groups of samples each from two different harvesting times (week 7 and week 8) were evaluated by the e-nose and then followed by the acoustic sensor. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) were able to discriminate the mango harvested at week 7 and week 8 based solely on the aroma and volatile gases released from the mangoes. However, when six different groups of different maturity and ripeness levels were combined in one classification analysis, both PCA and LDA were unable to discriminate the age difference of the Harumanis mangoes. Instead of six different groups, only four were observed using the LDA, while PCA showed only two distinct groups. By applying a low level data fusion technique on the e-nose and acoustic data, the classification for maturity and ripeness levels using LDA was improved. However, no significant improvement was observed using PCA with data fusion technique. Further work using a hybrid LDA-Competitive Learning Neural Network was performed to validate the fusion technique and classify the samples. It was found that the LDA-CLNN was also improved significantly when data fusion was applied.
  • Publication
    Predictive analysis of in-vehicle air quality monitoring system using Deep Learning technique
    ( 2022)
    Abdul Syafiq Abdull Sukor
    ;
    Goh Chew Cheik
    ;
    Latifah Munirah Kamarudin
    ;
    Xiaoyang Mao
    ;
    Hiromitsu Nishizaki
    ;
    Ammar Zakaria
    ;
    Syed Muhammad Mamduh Syed Zakaria
    In-vehicle air quality monitoring systems have been seen as promising paradigms for monitoring drivers’ conditions while they are driving. This is because some in-vehicle cabins contain pollutants that can cause drowsiness and fatigue to drivers. However, designing an efficient system that can predict in-vehicle air quality has challenges, due to the continuous variation in parameters in cabin environments. This paper presents a new approach, using deep learning techniques that can deal with the varying parameters inside the vehicle environment. In this case, two deep learning models, namely Long-short Term Memory (LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) are applied to classify and predict the air quality using time-series data collected from the built-in sensor hardware. Both are compared with conventional methods of machine learning models, including Support Vector Regression (SVR) and Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP). The results show that GRU has an excellent prediction performance with the highest coefficient of determination value (R2) of 0.97.
  • Publication
    A study on volatile organic compounds emitted by in-vitro lung cancer cultured cells using gas sensor array and SPME-GCMS
    ( 2018)
    Reena Thriumani
    ;
    Ammar Zakaria
    ;
    Yumi Zuhanis Has-Yun Hashim
    ;
    Amanina Iymia Jeffree
    ;
    Khaled Mohamed Helmy
    ;
    Latifah Munirah Kamarudin
    ;
    Mohammad Iqbal Omar
    ;
    Ali Yeon Md Shakaff
    ;
    Abdul Hamid Adom
    ;
    Krishna C. Persaud
    Background Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted from exhaled breath from human bodies have been proven to be a useful source of information for early lung cancer diagnosis. To date, there are still arguable information on the production and origin of significant VOCs of cancer cells. Thus, this study aims to conduct in-vitro experiments involving related cell lines to verify the capability of VOCs in providing information of the cells. Method The performances of e-nose technology with different statistical methods to determine the best classifier were conducted and discussed. The gas sensor study has been complemented using solid phase micro-extraction-gas chromatography mass spectrometry. For this purpose, the lung cancer cells (A549 and Calu-3) and control cell lines, breast cancer cell (MCF7) and non-cancerous lung cell (WI38VA13) were cultured in growth medium. Results This study successfully provided a list of possible volatile organic compounds that can be specific biomarkers for lung cancer, even at the 24th hour of cell growth. Also, the Linear Discriminant Analysis-based One versus All-Support Vector Machine classifier, is able to produce high performance in distinguishing lung cancer from breast cancer cells and normal lung cells. Conclusion The findings in this work conclude that the specific VOC released from the cancer cells can act as the odour signature and potentially to be used as non-invasive screening of lung cancer using gas array sensor devices.
  • Publication
    Improved maturity and ripeness classifications of magnifera indica cv. harumanis mangoes through sensor fusion of an electronic nose and acoustic sensor
    ( 2012)
    Ammar Zakaria
    ;
    Ali Yeon Md Shakaff
    ;
    Masnan, Maz Jamilah
    ;
    Fathinul Syahir Ahmad Sa'ad
    ;
    Abdul Hamid Adom
    ;
    Mohd Noor Ahmad
    ;
    Mahmad Nor Jaafar
    ;
    Abu Hassan Abdullah
    ;
    Latifah Munirah Kamarudin
    In recent years, there have been a number of reported studies on the use of non-destructive techniques to evaluate and determine mango maturity and ripeness levels. However, most of these reported works were conducted using single-modality sensing systems, either using an electronic nose, acoustics or other non-destructive measurements. This paper presents the work on the classification of mangoes (Magnifera Indica cv. Harumanis) maturity and ripeness levels using fusion of the data of an electronic nose and an acoustic sensor. Three groups of samples each from two different harvesting times (week 7 and week 8) were evaluated by the e-nose and then followed by the acoustic sensor. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) were able to discriminate the mango harvested at week 7 and week 8 based solely on the aroma and volatile gases released from the mangoes. However, when six different groups of different maturity and ripeness levels were combined in one classification analysis, both PCA and LDA were unable to discriminate the age difference of the Harumanis mangoes. Instead of six different groups, only four were observed using the LDA, while PCA showed only two distinct groups. By applying a low level data fusion technique on the e-nose and acoustic data, the classification for maturity and ripeness levels using LDA was improved. However, no significant improvement was observed using PCA with data fusion technique. Further work using a hybrid LDA-Competitive Learning Neural Network was performed to validate the fusion technique and classify the samples. It was found that the LDA-CLNN was also improved significantly when data fusion was applied.
  • Publication
    Development of a scalable testbed for mobile olfaction verification
    ( 2015)
    Syed Muhammad Mamduh Syed Zakaria
    ;
    Retnam Visvanathan
    ;
    Kamarulzaman Kamarudin
    ;
    Ali Yeon Md Shakaff
    ;
    Ammar Zakaria
    ;
    Latifah Munirah Kamarudin
    The lack of information on ground truth gas dispersion and experiment verification information has impeded the development of mobile olfaction systems, especially for real-world conditions. In this paper, an integrated testbed for mobile gas sensing experiments is presented. The integrated 3 m × 6 m testbed was built to provide real-time ground truth information for mobile olfaction system development. The testbed consists of a 72-gas-sensor array, namely Large Gas Sensor Array (LGSA), a localization system based on cameras and a wireless communication backbone for robot communication and integration into the testbed system. Furthermore, the data collected from the testbed may be streamed into a simulation environment to expedite development. Calibration results using ethanol have shown that using a large number of gas sensor in the LGSA is feasible and can produce coherent signals when exposed to the same concentrations. The results have shown that the testbed was able to capture the time varying characteristics and the variability of gas plume in a 2 h experiment thus providing time dependent ground truth concentration maps. The authors have demonstrated the ability of the mobile olfaction testbed to monitor, verify and thus, provide insight to gas distribution mapping experiment.
  • Publication
    Improved classification of orthosiphon stamineus by data fusion of electronic nose and tongue sensors
    ( 2010)
    Ammar Zakaria
    ;
    Ali Yeon Md Shakaff
    ;
    Abdul Hamid Adom
    ;
    Mohd Noor Ahmad
    ;
    Masnan, Maz Jamilah
    ;
    Abdul Hallis Abdul Aziz
    ;
    Nazifah Ahmad Fikri
    ;
    Abu Hassan Abdullah
    ;
    Latifah Munirah Kamarudin
    An improved classification of Orthosiphon stamineus using a data fusion technique is presented. Five different commercial sources along with freshly prepared samples were discriminated using an electronic nose (e-nose) and an electronic tongue (e-tongue). Samples from the different commercial brands were evaluated by the e-tongue and then followed by the e-nose. Applying Principal Component Analysis (PCA) separately on the respective e-tongue and e-nose data, only five distinct groups were projected. However, by employing a low level data fusion technique, six distinct groupings were achieved. Hence, this technique can enhance the ability of PCA to analyze the complex samples of Orthosiphon stamineus. Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) was then used to further validate and classify the samples. It was found that the LDA performance was also improved when the responses from the e-nose and e-tongue were fused together.
  • Publication
    A Biomimetic sensor for the classification of honeys of different floral origin and the detection of adulteration
    ( 2011)
    Ammar Zakaria
    ;
    Ali Yeon Md Shakaff
    ;
    Masnan, Maz Jamilah
    ;
    Mohd Noor Ahmad
    ;
    Abdul Hamid Adom
    ;
    Mahmad Nor Jaafar
    ;
    Supri A. Ghani
    ;
    Abu Hassan Abdullah
    ;
    Abdul Hallis Abdul Aziz
    ;
    Latifah Munirah Kamarudin
    ;
    Norazian Subari
    ;
    Nazifah Ahmad Fikri
    The major compounds in honey are carbohydrates such as monosaccharides and disaccharides. The same compounds are found in cane-sugar concentrates. Unfortunately when sugar concentrate is added to honey, laboratory assessments are found to be ineffective in detecting this adulteration. Unlike tracing heavy metals in honey, sugar adulterated honey is much trickier and harder to detect, and traditionally it has been very challenging to come up with a suitable method to prove the presence of adulterants in honey products. This paper proposes a combination of array sensing and multi-modality sensor fusion that can effectively discriminate the samples not only based on the compounds present in the sample but also mimic the way humans perceive flavours and aromas. Conversely, analytical instruments are based on chemical separations which may alter the properties of the volatiles or flavours of a particular honey. The present work is focused on classifying 18 samples of different honeys, sugar syrups and adulterated samples using data fusion of electronic nose (e-nose) and electronic tongue (e-tongue) measurements. Each group of samples was evaluated separately by the e-nose and e-tongue. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) were able to separately discriminate monofloral honey from sugar syrup, and polyfloral honey from sugar and adulterated samples using the e-nose and e-tongue. The e-nose was observed to give better separation compared to e-tongue assessment, particularly when LDA was applied. However, when all samples were combined in one classification analysis, neither PCA nor LDA were able to discriminate between honeys of different floral origins, sugar syrup and adulterated samples. By applying a sensor fusion technique, the classification for the 18 different samples was improved. Significant improvement was observed using PCA, while LDA not only improved the discrimination but also gave better classification. An improvement in performance was also observed using a Probabilistic Neural Network classifier when the e-nose and e-tongue data were fused.
  • Publication
    A biomimetic sensor for the classification of honeys of different floral origin and the detection of adulteration
    ( 2011-08)
    Ammar Zakaria
    ;
    Ali Yeon Md Shakaff
    ;
    Masnan, Maz Jamilah
    ;
    Mohd Noor Ahmad
    ;
    Abdul Hamid Adom
    ;
    Mahmad Nor Jaafar
    ;
    Supri A. Ghani
    ;
    Norazian Subari
    ;
    Nazifah Ahmad Fikri
    ;
    Abu Hassan Abdullah
    ;
    Latifah Munirah Kamarudin
    ;
    Abdul Hallis Abdul Aziz
    The major compounds in honey are carbohydrates such as monosaccharides and disaccharides. The same compounds are found in cane-sugar concentrates. Unfortunately when sugar concentrate is added to honey, laboratory assessments are found to be ineffective in detecting this adulteration. Unlike tracing heavy metals in honey, sugar adulterated honey is much trickier and harder to detect, and traditionally it has been very challenging to come up with a suitable method to prove the presence of adulterants in honey products. This paper proposes a combination of array sensing and multi-modality sensor fusion that can effectively discriminate the samples not only based on the compounds present in the sample but also mimic the way humans perceive flavours and aromas. Conversely, analytical instruments are based on chemical separations which may alter the properties of the volatiles or flavours of a particular honey. The present work is focused on classifying 18 samples of different honeys, sugar syrups and adulterated samples using data fusion of electronic nose (e-nose) and electronic tongue (e-tongue) measurements. Each group of samples was evaluated separately by the e-nose and e-tongue. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) were able to separately discriminate monofloral honey from sugar syrup, and polyfloral honey from sugar and adulterated samples using the e-nose and e-tongue. The e-nose was observed to give better separation compared to e-tongue assessment, particularly when LDA was applied. However, when all samples were combined in one classification analysis, neither PCA nor LDA were able to discriminate between honeys of different floral origins, sugar syrup and adulterated samples. By applying a sensor fusion technique, the classification for the 18 different samples was improved. Significant improvement was observed using PCA, while LDA not only improved the discrimination but also gave better classification. An improvement in performance was also observed using a Probabilistic Neural Network classifier when the e-nose and e-tongue data were fused.
  • Publication
    A Biomimetic Sensor for the Classification of Honeys of Different Floral Origin and the Detection of Adulteration
    ( 2011)
    Ammar Zakaria
    ;
    Ali Yeon Md Shakaff
    ;
    Masnan, Maz Jamilah
    ;
    Norazian Subari
    ;
    Nazifah Ahmad Fikri
    ;
    Abdul Hamid Adom
    ;
    Mohd Noor Ahmad
    ;
    Mahmad Nor Jaafar
    ;
    Latifah Munirah Kamarudin
    ;
    Abdul Hallis Abdul Aziz
    ;
    Abu Hassan Abdullah
    ;
    Supri A. Ghani
    The major compounds in honey are carbohydrates such as monosaccharides and disaccharides. The same compounds are found in cane-sugar concentrates. Unfortunately when sugar concentrate is added to honey, laboratory assessments are found to be ineffective in detecting this adulteration. Unlike tracing heavy metals in honey, sugar adulterated honey is much trickier and harder to detect, and traditionally it has been very challenging to come up with a suitable method to prove the presence of adulterants in honey products. This paper proposes a combination of array sensing and multi-modality sensor fusion that can effectively discriminate the samples not only based on the compounds present in the sample but also mimic the way humans perceive flavours and aromas. Conversely, analytical instruments are based on chemical separations which may alter the properties of the volatiles or flavours of a particular honey. The present work is focused on classifying 18 samples of different honeys, sugar syrups and adulterated samples using data fusion of electronic nose (e-nose) and electronic tongue (e-tongue) measurements. Each group of samples was evaluated separately by the e-nose and e-tongue. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) were able to separately discriminate monofloral honey from sugar syrup, and polyfloral honey from sugar and adulterated samples using the e-nose and e-tongue. The e-nose was observed to give better separation compared to e-tongue assessment, particularly when LDA was applied. However, when all samples were combined in one classification analysis, neither PCA nor LDA were able to discriminate between honeys of different floral origins, sugar syrup and adulterated samples. By applying a sensor fusion technique, the classification for the 18 different samples was improved. Significant improvement was observed using PCA, while LDA not only improved the discrimination but also gave better classification. An improvement in performance was also observed using a Probabilistic Neural Network classifier when the e-nose and e-tongue data were fused.