The application of direct orthogonal signal correction for linear and non-linear multivariate calibration

Traditionally, the direct orthogonal signal correction (DOSC) is always used together with a latent variable method such as partial least square (PLS) or principal component regression (PCR), to build a linear calibration model. In this study, PLS and least square support vector machine (LSSVM) were used to develop the linear and non-linear relation between spectra and components, respectively. DOSC was used to preprocess the input data, and the effect of DOSC pretreatment on linear and non-linear calibration model was investigated. The experiment was performed with three data sets. The first one was the acousto-optic tunable filter near infrared (AOTF-NIR) spectra of apples, the second one was the temperature-induced spectra of a ternary mixture of ethanol, water and 2-propanol, and the third one was the NIR spectra of corn. For all of the applications, the relation between spectra and components can be clearly observed in the spectra plot or the score plot after DOSC pretreatment. DOSC improved the predictive ability of PLS model. However, DOSC removed useful non-linear information that was related to components, thus, was not able to improve the performance of LSSVM model. DOSC pretreatment seems to be not suitable for non-linear calibration.