smoothSignal-methods {Cardinal} | R Documentation

## Smooth the Feature-Vectors of an Imaging Dataset

### Description

Apply smoothing to a mass spectrometry imaging dataset.

### Usage

    ## S4 method for signature 'MSImageSet'
    smoothSignal(object, method = c("gaussian", "sgolay", "ma"),
        ...,
        pixel = pixels(object),
        plot = FALSE)

    ## Gaussian smoothing
    smoothSignal.gaussian(x, sd=window/4, window=5, ...)

    ## Savitsky-Golay smoothing
    smoothSignal.sgolay(x, order=3, window=order + 3 - order %% 2, ...)

    ## Moving average smoothing
    smoothSignal.ma(x, coef=rep(1, window + 1 - window %% 2), window=5, ...)

### Arguments

`object` | An object of class `MSImageSet`.
`method` | The smoothing method to use.
`pixel` | The pixels to smooth. If less than the extent of the dataset, this will result in a subset of the data being processed.
`plot` | Plot the mass spectrum for each pixel while it is being processed?
`...` | Additional arguments passed to the smoothing method.
`x` | The mass spectrum to be smoothed.
`sd` | The standard deviation for the Gaussian kernel.
`window` | The smoothing window.
`order` | The order of the smoothing filter.
`coef` | The coefficients for the moving average filter.

### Details

Smoothing is usually performed using the provided functions, but a user-created function can also be passed to `method`. In this case it should take the following arguments:

- `x`: A `numeric` vector of intensities.

- `...`: Additional arguments.

A user-created function should return a `numeric` vector of the same length.

Internally, `pixelApply` is used to apply the smooothing. See its documentation page for more details on additional objects available to the environment installed to the smoothing function.

### Value

An object of class `MSImageSet` with the smoothed spectra.

### Author(s)

Kylie A. Bemis

### See Also

`MSImageSet`, `pixelApply`

### Examples

    data <- generateImage(as="MSImageSet")
    smoothSignal(data, method="gaussian", plot=interactive())

[Package Cardinal version 1.12.1 Index]