generate_lorentz_curves: Deconvolute one or more NMR spectra

In metabodecon: Deconvolution and Alignment of 1d NMR Spectra

Deconvolute one or more NMR spectra

Description

Deconvolutes NMR spectra by modeling each detected signal within a spectrum as Lorentz Curve.

This function has been deprecated with metabodecon version v1.4.3 and will be removed with version 2.0.0. Please use deconvolute() instead.

Usage

generate_lorentz_curves(
  data_path,
  file_format = "bruker",
  make_rds = FALSE,
  expno = 10,
  procno = 10,
  raw = TRUE,
  nfit = 10,
  smopts = c(2, 5),
  delta = 6.4,
  sfr = c(11.44494, -1.8828),
  wshw = 0.1527692,
  ask = TRUE,
  force = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE,
  nworkers = 1
)

generate_lorentz_curves_sim(
  data_path,
  file_format = "bruker",
  make_rds = FALSE,
  expno = 10,
  procno = 10,
  raw = TRUE,
  nfit = 10,
  smopts = c(2, 5),
  delta = 6.4,
  sfr = c(3.55, 3.35),
  wshw = 0,
  ask = FALSE,
  force = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  nworkers = 1
)

Arguments

data_path	The path of the file/folder containing the spectrum data. E.g. "example_datasets/jcampdx/urine/urine_1.dx" or "example_datasets/bruker/urine/urine".
file_format	The file_format of the spectrum file. E.g. "bruker" or "jcampdx".
make_rds	Logical or character. If TRUE, stores results as an RDS file on disk. If a character string, saves the RDS file with the specified name. Should be set to TRUE if many spectra are evaluated to decrease computation time.
expno, procno	The experiment/processing number for the file. E.g. "10". Only relevant if file_format equals "bruker". For details see section File Structure in the metabodecon FAQ.
raw	If FALSE, scales the returned signal intensities based on information available in the spectrum metadata, in particular NC_proc. For details see processing-reference.pdf, available at https://www.bruker.com/en.html at section 'Services & Support > Documentation & Manuals > Magnetic Resonance > Acquisition & Processing > TopSpin Processing Commands and Parameters' (requires login).
nfit	Integer. Number of iterations for approximating the parameters for the Lorentz curves. See 'Details'.
smopts	Numeric vector with two entries: the number of smoothing iterations and the number of data points to use for smoothing (must be odd). See 'Details'.
delta	Threshold for peak filtering. Higher values result in more peaks being filtered out. A peak is filtered if its score is below \mu + \sigma \cdot \delta, where \mu is the average peak score in the signal-free region (SFR), and \sigma is the standard deviation of peak scores in the SFR. See 'Details'.
sfr	Numeric vector with two entries: the ppm positions for the left and right border of the signal-free region of the spectrum. See 'Details'.
wshw	Half-width of the water artifact in ppm. See 'Details'.
ask	Logical. Whether to ask for user input during the deconvolution process. If FALSE, the provided default values will be used.
force	If TRUE, try to continue when encountering errors and print info messages instead. To hide these messages as well, set silent = TRUE.
verbose	Logical. Whether to print log messages during the deconvolution process.
nworkers	Number of workers to use for parallel processing. If "auto", the number of workers will be determined automatically. If a number greater than 1, it will be limited to the number of spectra.

Details

First, an automated curvature based signal selection is performed. Each signal is represented by 3 data points to allow the determination of initial Lorentz curves. These Lorentz curves are then iteratively adjusted to optimally approximate the measured spectrum.

generate_lorentz_curves_sim() is identical to generate_lorentz_curves() except for the defaults, which are optimized for deconvoluting the 'sim' dataset, shipped with 'metabodecon'. The 'sim' dataset is a simulated dataset, which is much smaller than a real NMR spectra and lacks a water signal. This makes it ideal for use in examples. However, the default values for sfr, wshw, and delta in the "normal" generate_lorentz_curves() function are not optimal for this dataset. To avoid having to define the optimal parameters repeatedly in examples, this function is provided to deconvolute the "Sim" dataset with suitable parameters.

Value

A 'decon1' object if a single spectrum was provided. A 'decons1' object if multiple spectra were provided. See Metabodecon Classes for details.

Author(s)

2024-2025 Tobias Schmidt: initial version.

Examples

## Define the paths to the example datasets we want to deconvolute:
## `sim_dir`: directory containing 16 simulated spectra
## `sim_01`: path to the first spectrum in the `sim` directory
## `sim_01_spec`: the first spectrum in the `sim` directory as a dataframe

sim_dir        <- metabodecon_file("sim_subset")
sim_1_dir      <- file.path(sim_dir, "sim_01")
sim_2_dir      <- file.path(sim_dir, "sim_02")
sim_1_spectrum <- read_spectrum(sim_1_dir)
sim_2_spectrum <- read_spectrum(sim_2_dir)
sim_spectra    <- read_spectra(sim_dir)


## Show that `generate_lorentz_curves()` and `generate_lorentz_curves_sim()`
## produce the same results:

sim_1_decon0 <- generate_lorentz_curves(
    data_path = sim_1_dir, # Path to directory containing spectra
    sfr = c(3.55, 3.35),   # Borders of signal free region (SFR) in ppm
    wshw = 0,              # Half width of water signal (WS) in ppm
    ask = FALSE,           # Don't ask for user input
    verbose = FALSE        # Suppress status messages
)
sim_1_decon1 <- generate_lorentz_curves_sim(sim_1_dir)
stopifnot(all.equal(sim_1_decon0, sim_1_decon1))


## Show that passing a spectrum produces the same results as passing the
## the corresponding directory:

decon_from_spectrum_dir <- generate_lorentz_curves_sim(sim_1_dir)
decon_from_spectrum_obj <- generate_lorentz_curves_sim(sim_1_spectrum)
decons_from_spectra_obj <- generate_lorentz_curves_sim(sim_spectra)
decons_from_spectra_dir <- generate_lorentz_curves_sim(sim_dir)

most.equal <- function(x1, x2) {
    ignore <- which(names(x1) %in% c("number_of_files", "filename"))
    equal <- all.equal(x1[-ignore], x2[-ignore])
    invisible(stopifnot(isTRUE(equal)))
}

all.equal(  decon_from_spectrum_dir, decon_from_spectrum_obj     )
all.equal(  decons_from_spectra_dir, decons_from_spectra_obj     )
most.equal( decon_from_spectrum_dir, decons_from_spectra_obj[[1]])
most.equal( decon_from_spectrum_dir, decons_from_spectra_dir[[1]])

metabodecon documentation built on Nov. 5, 2025, 7:12 p.m.