Noninvasive Total Cholesterol Level Measurement Using an E-Nose System and Machine Learning on Exhaled Breath Samples

In this paper, the first e-nose system coupled with machine learning algorithm for noninvasive measurement of total cholesterol level based on exhaled air sample was proposed. The study was conducted with the participation of 151 people, from whom a breath sample was collected, and the level of total cholesterol was measured. The breath sample was examined using e-nose and gas sensors, such as TGS1820, TGS2620, TGS2600, MQ3, Semeatech 7e4 NO2 and 7e4 H2S, SGX_NO2, SGX_H2S, K33, AL-03P, and AL-03S. The LGBMRegressor algorithm was used to predict cholesterol level based on the breath sample. Machine learning algorithms were developed for the entire measurement range and for the norm range ≤200 mg/dL achieving MAPE 13.7% and 8%, respectively. The results show that it is possible to develop a noninvasive device to measure total cholesterol level from breath.