Spectral Interpretation using Gaussian Mixtures and Autoencoder (SIGMA) is an open-source Python library for phase identification and spectrum analysis for energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDS) datasets. The library mainly builds on the Hyperspy, Pytorch, and Scikit-learn. The current version only supports .bcf and .emi files. The publication is available here.
(UPDATE) Now SIGMA (version=0.1.34) can load individual images (elemental intensity maps, e.g., *.tif).
Try your dataset on SIGMA with Colab in the cloud:
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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101005611: The EXCITE Network. If analysis using SIGMA forms a part of published work please cite the manuscript.
- Create a Python>=3.7.0 environment with conda:
conda create -n sigma python=3.7 anaconda
conda activate sigma- Install SIGMA with pip:
pip install emsigma- Use the notebook in the tutorial folder to run SIGMA.
- A neural network autoencoder is trained to learn good representations of elemental pixels in the 2D latent space.
- The trained encoder is then used to transform high-dimensional elemental pixels into low-dimensional representations, followed by clustering using Gaussian mixture modeling (GMM) in the informative latent space.
- Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is applied to unmix the single-phase spectra for all clusters.
In such a way, the algorithm not only identifies the locations of all unknown phases but also isolates the background-subtracted EDS spectra of individual phases.
An example of checking the EDS dataset and the sum spectrum.
Demo with Colab
An example of analysing the latent space using the graphical widget.
Demo with Colab
A demo of acquiring Background-substracted spectrum using Factor Analysis (FA).