ormat varies with the spectrum across experiments and samples.
efore leads to the difficulty when analysing the spectrometric data
ting chemicals or molecules from a spectrum. This difficulty has
resulted in the development of various algorithms for baseline
n.
are mainly three types of baseline estimation algorithms. The
is to fit a smoothing spline to a spectrum [Hastie and Tibshirani,
he fitting is based on a pre-defined model structure, i.e., the
g order or the smoothing degree. These algorithms have a typical
e of simplicity and therefore have been widely used in a variety
ations for discovering chemicals or molecules from spectra data
the Raman spectra [Shusterman, et al., 2000; Fonseca, et al.,
hulze, et al., 2019; Monteiro, et al., 2020]. However, these
ms have a typical limitation because a model structure must be pre-
nd the baseline removal performance is closely related with the
design of a smoothing degree [Froning, et al., 1988]. These
ms also have a problem to effectively deal with some complicated
structures [Perperoglou, et al., 2019].
econd type of baseline estimation algorithms is to use the wavelet
g technique, or the wavelet decomposition and integration
[Price, et al., 2008; Restrepo-Agudelo, et al., 2017]. The
assumes that a spectrum has a typical property that a high wave
corresponds to a chemical peak (or a signal) and a low wave
represents a baseline value. Therefore two types of spectrometric
can be separated by decomposing two types of wave intensities.
elet approach has also been applied to the Raman spectrometric
ang, et al., 2005; Alimova, et al., 2019]. However, this approach
problem that an optimised threshold must be carefully determined
the low and high wave intensities [Hu, et al., 2007].
hird type of algorithms for baseline estimation is called the least
error approach (LSE). LSE has been the mostly and widely
one for the estimation of a baseline in a spectrum. This is mainly
of its flexibility though it has also a problem of model selection
sation. Both the classical and the LSE variants have been used to