Zusammenfassung
Raman spectroscopy is a technique for detecting and identifying molecules
such as DNA. It is sensitive at very low concentrations and can accurately
quantify the amount of a given molecule in a sample. The presence of a large,
nonuniform background presents a major challenge to analysis of these spectra.
We introduce a sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) algorithm to separate the observed
spectrum into a series of peaks plus a smoothly-varying baseline, corrupted by
additive white noise. Our model-based approach accounts for differences in
resolution and experimental conditions. By incorporating this representation
into a Bayesian functional regression, we can quantify the relationship between
molecular concentration and peak intensity, resulting in an improved estimate
of the limit of detection. We also calculate the model evidence using SMC to
investigate long-range dependence between peaks.
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