UV imaging for the rapid at-line content determination of different colourless APIs in their tablets with artificial neural networks

Ficzere, Máté and Mészáros, Lilla Alexandra and Diószegi, Anna and Bánrévi, Zoltán and Farkas, Attila and Lenk, Sándor and Galata, Dorián László and Nagy, Zsombor Kristóf (2024) UV imaging for the rapid at-line content determination of different colourless APIs in their tablets with artificial neural networks. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS, 657. No. 124174. ISSN 0378-5173

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel high-resolution and rapid (50 ms) UV imaging system, which was used for at-line, non-destructive API content determination of tablets. For the experiments, amlodipine and valsartan were selected as two colourless APIs with different UV induced fluorescent properties according to the measured solid fluorescent spectra. Images were captured with a LED-based UV illumination (385–395 nm) of tablets containing amlodipine or valsartan and common tableting excipients. Blue or green colour components from the RGB colour space were extracted from the images and used as an input dataset to execute API content prediction with artificial neural networks. The traditional destructive, solution-based transmission UV measurement was applied as reference method. After the optimization of the number of hidden layer neurons it was found that the relative error of the content prediction was 4.41 % and 3.98 % in the case of amlodipine and valsartan containing tablets respectively. The results open the possibility to use the proposed UV imaging-based system as a rapid, in-line tool for 100 % API content screening in order to greatly improve pharmaceutical quality control and process understanding.

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