Selective removal of interference signals for near-infrared spectra of biomedical samples by using region orthogonal signal correction

New approach for chemometrics algorithm named region orthogonal signal correction (ROSC) has been introduced to improve the predictive ability of PLS models for biomedical components in blood serum developed from their NIR spectra in the 1280-1849 nm region. Firstly, a moving window partial least squares regression (MWPLSR) method was employed to locate the region due to water as a region of interference signals and to find the informative regions of glucose, albumin, cholesterol and triglyceride from NIR spectra of bovine serum samples. Next, a novel chemometrics method named searching combination moving window partial least squares (SCMWPLS) was used to optimize those informative regions. Then, the specific regions that contained the information of water, glucose, albumin, cholesterol and triglyceride were obtained. When an interested component in the bovine serum solution, such as glucose, albumin, cholesterol or triglyceride is being an analyte, the other three interests and water are considered as the interference factors. Thus, new approach for ROSC has employed for each specific region of interference signal to calculate the orthogonal components to the concentrations of analyte that were removed specifically from the NIR spectra of bovine serum in the region of 1280-1849 nm and the highest interference signal for model of analyte will be revealed. The comparison of PLS results for glucose, albumin, cholesterol and triglyceride built by using the whole region of original spectra and those developed by using the optimized regions suggested by SCMWPLS of original spectra, spectra treated OSC for orthogonal components of 1-3 and spectra treated ROSC using selected removing the highest interference signals from the spectra for orthogonal components of 1-3 are reported. It has been found that new approach of ROSC to remove the highest interference signal located by SCMWPLS improves of the performance of PLS modeling, yielding the lower RMSECV and smaller number of PLS factors. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.