Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, p. 220-229
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15992-3_24
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Ultraviolet Spectra (UVS) analysis is a frequent tool in tasks like diseases diagnosis, drugs detection and hyperspectral remote sensing. A key point in these applications is the UVS comparison function. Although there are several UVS comparisons functions, creating good dissimilarity functions is still a challenge because there are different substances with very similar spectra and the same substance may produce different spectra. In this paper, we introduce a new spectral dissimilarity measure for substances identification, based on the way experts visually match the spectra shapes. We also combine the new measure with the Spectral Correlation Measure. A set of experiments conducted with a database of real substances reveals superior results of the combined dissimilarity, with respect to state-of-the-art measures. We use Receiver Operating Characteristic curve analysis to show that our proposal get the best tradeoff between false positive rates and true positive rates.