Application of Multivariate Data Analysis Techniques for the Portable Isotopic Neutron Spectroscopy System

Application of artificial neural network to prompt gamma neutron activation analysis for chemical warfare agents identification

“…INL has a collection of gamma-ray spectra of various chemical-fills from the field-deployed PINS systems over the years, and it was envisaged to leverage such valuable resources with other classification methods. An algorithm based on the Principal Components Analysis (PCA) technique has shown possibility of unsupervised learning[3]. As part of an ongoing research effort to improve the PINS identification algorithm, an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) algorithm was developed to identify CWA.…”