Simultaneous quantitative analysis of three compounds using three-dimensional fluorescence spectra based on digital image techniques.

Digital image processing has been applied on various fields such as classification and qualitative analysis. In this work, a very simple quantitative approach was proposed for the first time. Based on the digital grayscale images of three-dimensional fluorescence spectra, several wavelet moment invariants were calculated, and used to establish the linear models for the quantitative analysis. This approach was applied to the quantitative analysis of Tryptophan, Tyrosine and Phenylalanine in mixture samples, and the correlation coefficients R(2) of the obtained linear models were more than 0.99, which were supported by the strict statistical parameters as well as leave-one-out and Jackknife cross-validations. Our study indicates that the selected wavelet moment invariants are immune from the noise and background signals, and the quantitative analysis can be performed accurately based on the overlapping peaks of compounds in mixture. This proposed approach provides a novel pathway for the analysis of three-dimensional spectra.