Abstract
RATIONALE: The high sensitivity of the miniature mass spectrometer plays
an irreplaceable role in rapid on-site detection. However, its analysis
accuracy and stability should be improved due to the influence of sample
pretreatment and use environment. The present study investigates the
processing effects of EEMD feature enhancement methods on the
determination coefficient and relative standard deviation of caffeine
mass spectrometry signals. METHODS: This paper employs the EEMD method
combined with polynomial curve fitting to enhance the characteristics of
seven Caffeine mass spectrum signals with different concentrations and
fifteen groups of Caffeine mass spectrum signals with the same
concentration, and the wavelet analysis method was used for comparative
verification. The determination coefficient and relative standard
deviation of the two methods were compared. RESULTS: We found the EEMD
method’s capability in adaptively decomposing Caffeine mass spectrum
signals is better than wavelet analysis method. The determination
coefficient of the EEMD enhanced feature is better than 0.999, and the
relative standard deviation is better than 2%, and both are better than
wavelet analysis methods. CONCLUSIONS: The feature enhancement
processing using the EEMD method has significantly improved the
determination coefficient and relative standard deviation of the sample
curve, improving the accuracy and stability of the data and providing a
new way for miniature mass spectrometer signal processing.