Parallel pre-processing through orthogonalization (PORTO) and its application to near-infrared spectroscopy
Data generated from spectroscopy may be deformed by artefacts due to a range of physical, chemical and environmental factors that are not of interest for the characterization of the samples under study. For example, data acquired by near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy in the diffuse reflectance mode can be affected by light scattering. This artefact, if not reduced or removed by spectral pre-processing, can complicate the multivariate data analysis. However, different pre-processing approaches correct these effects in different ways.