Kavianpour, Babak, Piadeh, Farzad, Gheibi, M., Ardakanian, Atiyeh, Behzadian Moghadam, Kourosh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1459-8408 and Campos, L.C. (2024) Applications of artificial intelligence for chemical analysis and monitoring of pharmaceutical and personal care products in water and wastewater: A review. Chemosphere, 368 (143692). ISSN 0045-6535

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Abstract

Specifying and interpreting the occurrence of emerging pollutants is essential for assessing treatment processes and plants, conducting wastewater-based epidemiology, and advancing environmental toxicology research. In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has been increasingly applied to enhance chemical analysis and monitoring of contaminants in environmental water and wastewater. However, their specific roles targeting pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) have not been reviewed sufficiently. This review aims to narrow the gap by highlighting, scoping, and discussing the incorporation of AI during the detection and quantification of PPCPs when utilising chemical analysis equipment and interpreting their monitoring data for the first time.
In the chemical analysis of PPCPs, AI-assisted prediction of chromatographic retention times and collision cross-sections (CCS) in suspect and non-target screenings using high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) enhances detection confidence, reduces analysis time, and lowers costs. AI also aids in interpreting spectroscopic analysis results. However, this approach still cannot be applied in all matrices, as it offers lower sensitivity than liquid chromatography coupled with tandem or HRMS.
For the interpretation of monitoring of PPCPs, unsupervised AI methods have recently presented the capacity to survey regional or national community health and socioeconomic factors. Nevertheless, as a challenge, long-term monitoring data sources are not given in the literature, and more comparative AI studies are needed for both chemical analysis and monitoring. Finally, AI assistance anticipates more frequent applications of CCS prediction to enhance detection confidence and the use of AI methods in data processing for wastewater-based epidemiology and community health surveillance.

Item Type:	Article
Identifier:	10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.143692
Subjects:	Computing > Intelligent systems
Depositing User:	Babak Kavianpour
Date Deposited:	04 Mar 2025 09:08
Last Modified:	04 Mar 2025 09:15
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/13288
Sustainable Development Goals:	Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

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