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Record W4407076700 · doi:10.1177/00037028241311296

Demixing and Analysis of Complex Biological Raman Hyperspectra Based on Peak Fitting, Amplitude Trend Clustering, and Spectrum Reconstruction

2025· article· en· W4407076700 on OpenAlexafffund
H. Georg Schulze, Shreyas Rangan, Martha Z. Vardaki, Michael W. Blades, Robin F. B. Turner, James M. Piret

Bibliographic record

VenueApplied Spectroscopy · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicSpectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research
Canadian institutionsCanada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences CentreUniversity of British Columbia
FundersBritish Columbia Knowledge Development Fund
KeywordsRaman spectroscopyAmplitudeCluster analysisSpectrum (functional analysis)Analytical Chemistry (journal)OpticsMaterials scienceComputational physicsPhysicsChemistryMathematicsStatisticsChromatographyQuantum mechanics

Abstract

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To better interpret the Raman spectra from mammalian cells, it is often desirable to reduce their complexity by decomposing them into the spectral contributions from individual macromolecules or types of macromolecules. Diverse methods exist for demixing complex spectra, each with different benefits and drawbacks. However, some methods require a library of component spectra that might not be available, while others are hampered by noise and peak congestion that includes many proximal overlapping peaks. Through rapid fitting of individual peaks in every spectrum of a Raman hyperspectral data set, we have obtained individual peak parameters from which we determined the trends for all the peak amplitudes. We then grouped similar trends with k -means clustering. Then we used the peak parameters of all the peaks in a given cluster to reconstruct a spectrum representative of that cluster. This method produced spectra that were less distorted by unrelated overlapping peaks or noise, were less congested than those in the hyperspectral set, and thereby improved peak identification and macromolecule recognition. We have demonstrated the application of the method with Raman spectra from a perchlorate–polystyrene model system and extended it to complex spectra from methanol-fixed mammalian cells. We were able to recover independent spectra of perchlorate and polystyrene in the model system and spectra pertaining to individual macromolecular types (proteins, nucleic acids, lipids) from the mammalian cell data. We discuss how imperfections in spectral preprocessing and peak fitting can adversely affect the results. In summary, we have provided a proof-of-concept for a novel mixture resolution method with different attributes than extant ones.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.011

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.312
Teacher spread0.297 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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