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Heike Kaspar

Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Approach:machine learning (classical)· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1

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Kapil NichaniiD· 2 shared Karina Hettwer· 2 shared Petra Gowik· 2 shared Sabine KemmleiniD· 2 shared Steffen UhligiD· 2 shared Ulrike Steinacker· 2 shared Victor San Martin· 2 shared Bertrand ColsoniD· 1 shared

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Non-targeted screening method for detecting temporal shifts in spectral patterns of Methicillin Resistance Staphylococcus aureus and post-hoc description of peak features

Kapil Nichani, Steffen Uhlig, Victor San Martin, Karina Hettwer, Kirstin Frost, Ulrike Steinacker, Heike Kaspar, Petra Gowik, Sabine Kemmlein

The paper presents a method to detect temporal shifts in MALDI-TOF MS spectral patterns of MRSA/MSSA using CNNs and statistical methods, with GradCam for feature analysis.

Microorganisms · Jan 3, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

Towards Spectral Variation Analysis: A Data Quality Framework for Non-Targeted Methods

Kapil Nichani, Steffen Uhlig, Victor San Martin, Bertrand Colson, Karina Hettwer, Ulrike Steinacker, Heike Kaspar, Petra Gowik, Sabine Kemmlein

This paper evaluates spectral comparison methods for non-targeted analysis, showing neural classification distance outperforms Mahalanobis distance in handling complex spectral data.

Molecules · Nov 29, 2025Peer-reviewedBioinformatics