# FoodSpec v1.0 - Feature Inventory & Developer Notes

**Last Updated:** December 25, 2024  
**Version:** 1.0.0  
**Status:** Production Ready

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## Package Overview

FoodSpec is a comprehensive Python package for food spectroscopy analysis with **28,080 lines of production code**, **95 public API exports**, and **685 passing tests** covering 78.57% of the codebase.

### Quick Stats

- **Code Size:** 28,080 lines across 209 Python files
- **Test Coverage:** 78.57% (685 tests passing)
- **Documentation:** 150+ pages, 12-level hierarchy
- **Examples:** 16 production-ready workflows
- **Public API:** 95 exported functions/classes
- **Modules:** 23 major subsystems

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## Complete Feature List

### 1. Core Data Structures

✅ **Implemented & Production Ready**

- **FoodSpectrumSet** - Primary container for Raman/FTIR/NIR spectra
  - Modality-aware (raman, ftir, nir)
  - Metadata management with pandas DataFrame
  - Label tracking for supervised learning
  - Batch operations and slicing
  - HDF5 serialization with schema versioning

- **HyperSpectralCube** - 3D imaging data (x, y, wavelength)
  - ROI extraction and masking
  - Spatial-spectral operations
  - Band math and false-color composites
  - Integration with segmentation

- **MultiModalDataset** - Fusion of multiple spectral modalities
  - Early fusion (feature concatenation)
  - Late fusion (decision combination)
  - Modality alignment and resampling
  - Consistency checks

- **FoodSpec High-Level API** - Scikit-learn style interface
  - Chained preprocessing
  - PCA/PLS-DA/classification
  - Plotting utilities
  - Report generation

- **OutputBundle** - Reproducible output management
  - Timestamped run directories
  - HTML/text reports
  - Figure and table management
  - Audit log with provenance

- **RunRecord** - Experiment tracking
  - Configuration snapshots
  - Environment capture
  - Reproducibility metadata
  - Version tracking

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### 2. Preprocessing Pipelines

✅ **Implemented & Production Ready**

#### Baseline Correction
- Asymmetric Least Squares (ALS)
- Rubberband (convex hull)
- Polynomial fitting
- Airpls
- Modified polynomial
- Rolling ball

#### Normalization
- Vector normalization (L2)
- Area normalization
- Max normalization
- Reference peak normalization
- Standard Normal Variate (SNV)
- Min-max scaling

#### Smoothing
- Savitzky-Golay filter
- Moving average
- Gaussian kernel
- Median filter

#### Derivatives
- 1st and 2nd Savitzky-Golay derivatives
- Numerical differentiation
- Gap derivatives

#### Scatter Correction
- Multiplicative Scatter Correction (MSC)
- Extended MSC (EMSC)
- De-trending

#### Spike Removal
- Z-score based detection
- Median filtering
- Interpolation

#### Calibration Transfer
- Piecewise Direct Standardization (PDS)
- Slope/Bias correction
- Wavelength alignment
- Transfer between instruments

#### Matrix Effects
- Matrix correction utilities
- Reference material calibration

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### 3. Feature Extraction

✅ **Implemented & Production Ready**

#### Ratiometric Questions (RQ)
- Peak ratio computation
- Band integration
- Baseline correction per ratio
- Batch processing
- Classification integration
- Visualization tools

#### Peak Statistics
- Peak height/area/width
- Peak detection algorithms
- Multi-peak fitting
- Peak table generation

#### Fingerprinting
- Spectral similarity (cosine, correlation)
- Distance metrics (Euclidean, Manhattan)
- Spectral angle mapper
- Library matching

#### Dimensionality Reduction
- PCA with visualization
- PLS (regression and discriminant analysis)
- VIP scores (Variable Importance in Projection)
- Loadings and scores plots
- Scree plots and variance explained

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### 4. Machine Learning

✅ **Implemented & Production Ready**

#### Classification
- PLS-DA (Partial Least Squares - Discriminant Analysis)
- SVM (Support Vector Machine)
- Random Forest
- Logistic Regression
- k-NN
- Naive Bayes
- Neural Networks (MLP)
- XGBoost (optional)
- LightGBM (optional)

#### Regression
- PLS Regression
- Ridge/Lasso
- Random Forest Regressor
- Gradient Boosting

#### Model Evaluation
- **Nested Cross-Validation** - Unbiased performance estimation
  - Outer loop for testing
  - Inner loop for hyperparameter tuning
  - Stratified splits
  - Custom scoring metrics
  - Multiple random seeds

- **Calibration Diagnostics**
  - Brier score
  - Expected Calibration Error (ECE)
  - Reliability diagrams
  - Calibration curves
  - Isotonic/Platt recalibration

- **Metrics**
  - Accuracy, precision, recall, F1
  - ROC-AUC, PR-AUC
  - Confusion matrices
  - Classification reports
  - Regression metrics (R², RMSE, MAE)
  - Q² (cross-validated R²)

#### Fusion Strategies
- **Late Fusion (Feature Level)**
  - Concatenation
  - Weighted concatenation
  - Kernel combination

- **Decision Fusion**
  - Majority voting
  - Weighted voting
  - Probability averaging
  - Stacking

#### Hyperparameter Tuning
- Grid search with nested CV
- Random search
- Bayesian optimization (optional)

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### 5. Statistical Analysis

✅ **Implemented & Production Ready**

#### Hypothesis Testing
- **t-tests**
  - Independent samples
  - Paired samples
  - Welch's t-test
  
- **ANOVA**
  - One-way ANOVA
  - Effect size (eta², omega²)
  - Post-hoc tests (Tukey HSD, Games-Howell)
  
- **MANOVA**
  - Multivariate analysis of variance
  - Pillai's trace, Wilks' lambda
  
- **Non-parametric Tests**
  - Mann-Whitney U
  - Wilcoxon signed-rank
  - Kruskal-Wallis
  - Friedman test
  
- **Normality Tests**
  - Shapiro-Wilk
  - Anderson-Darling
  - Kolmogorov-Smirnov

#### Multiple Testing Correction
- Bonferroni correction
- Benjamini-Hochberg (FDR)
- Holm-Bonferroni

#### Effect Sizes
- Cohen's d
- Hedges' g
- Glass's delta
- Eta squared (η²)
- Omega squared (ω²)
- Cliff's delta

#### Power Analysis
- Sample size calculation
- Power curves
- Effect size estimation

#### Correlations
- Pearson correlation
- Spearman rank correlation
- Kendall's tau
- Partial correlation
- Cross-correlation (time series)

#### Method Comparison
- Bland-Altman analysis
- Limits of agreement
- Bias assessment

#### Time Series
- Linear slope estimation
- Quadratic acceleration
- Rolling statistics
- Trend detection

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### 6. Quality Control (QC)

✅ **Implemented & Production Ready**

#### Novelty Detection
- One-Class SVM
- Isolation Forest
- Local Outlier Factor (LOF)
- Mahalanobis distance
- Hotelling T²
- Q residuals (SPE)
- Distance to model (DTM)

#### Drift Detection
- Sequential drift monitoring
- Control charts (Shewhart, CUSUM, EWMA)
- Drift magnitude quantification
- Trend detection

#### Leakage Detection
- Cross-contamination detection
- Batch effect identification
- Data leakage checks

#### Dataset Validation
- Missing data checks
- Duplicate detection
- Outlier identification
- Class balance assessment
- Feature variance checks

#### Readiness Scoring
- Model readiness assessment
- Data quality metrics
- Completeness checks

#### Prediction QC
- Confidence thresholding
- Prediction guards
- Uncertainty quantification

⚠️ **Partially Implemented** (Scaffolds Present)

- **Spectrum Health Scoring** (qc/health.py)
  - SNR calculation (placeholder)
  - Baseline drift detection (placeholder)
  - Spike counting (placeholder)
  - *Note: Algorithms are scaffolded but not implemented*

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### 7. Domain Applications

✅ **Implemented & Production Ready**

#### Edible Oil Authentication
- FTIR/Raman classification
- Adulteration detection
- Varietal discrimination
- Oxidation assessment

#### Meat Quality Assessment
- Freshness indicators
- Species identification
- Fat content estimation

#### Dairy Analysis
- Compositional analysis
- Adulteration detection
- Processing verification

#### Microbial Contamination
- Growth monitoring
- Species identification
- Contamination detection

#### Heating/Thermal Degradation
- Time-temperature indicators
- Degradation trajectory analysis
- Quality loss prediction
- Shelf life estimation

#### Mixture Analysis
- Non-negative least squares (NNLS)
- Component deconvolution
- Quantification

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### 8. Protocol System

✅ **Implemented & Production Ready**

#### Protocol Engine
- YAML-based workflow definition
- Step-by-step execution
- Configuration validation
- Reproducible runs

#### Protocol Steps
- **PreprocessStep** - Baseline, normalize, smooth
- **RQAnalysisStep** - Ratio computation
- **OutputStep** - Save results
- **HarmonizeStep** - Calibration transfer (scaffold)
- **HSISegmentStep** - Image segmentation
- **HSIRoiStep** - ROI extraction
- **QCStep** - Quality checks (scaffold)

#### Protocol Utilities
- Protocol validation
- Protocol library management
- Template protocols for common workflows

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### 9. Input/Output

✅ **Implemented & Production Ready**

#### Vendor File Formats
- **Thermo Fisher**
  - .spa (Raman)
  - .spc (FTIR)
- **Bruker**
  - OPUS files
- **Agilent**
  - .dpt files
- **PerkinElmer**
  - .sp files
- **Horiba/Renishaw**
  - .txt exports
- **Ocean Optics**
  - ASCII exports
- **Generic**
  - CSV (spectrum-per-row or column)
  - Excel
  - JSON
  - HDF5

#### Library Management
- CSV to spectral library conversion
- Metadata parsing
- Batch import utilities

#### Serialization
- HDF5 with schema versioning (v1.1)
- Pickle (for models)
- JSON (for configurations)
- Artifact bundles (.foodspec format)

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### 10. Visualization

✅ **Implemented & Production Ready**

#### Spectral Plots
- Line plots with uncertainty bands
- Waterfall plots
- Heatmaps
- Difference spectra
- Overlay plots with legends

#### Classification Plots
- Confusion matrices
- ROC curves
- Precision-recall curves
- Decision boundaries
- Calibration curves

#### PCA Plots
- Scores plots (2D/3D)
- Loadings plots
- Biplots
- Scree plots
- Variance explained

#### Regression Plots
- Predicted vs actual
- Residual plots
- Q² plots
- Calibration curves

#### Hyperspectral Plots
- False-color composites
- Band maps
- Segmentation overlays
- ROI visualization

#### Ratio Plots
- Time-series ratio evolution
- Ratio vs reference plots
- Multivariate ratio plots

#### Report Plots
- Multi-panel figures
- Publication-ready styling
- Customizable themes

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### 11. Command-Line Interface (CLI)

✅ **Implemented & Production Ready**

#### Commands
- `foodspec protocol` - Run YAML protocols
- `foodspec predict` - Batch predictions
- `foodspec registry` - Model registry management
- `foodspec csv-to-library` - Library creation
- `foodspec plugin` - Plugin system
- Unified interface with typer

#### Features
- Progress bars
- Colored output
- Logging configuration
- Batch processing
- Error handling

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### 12. Reproducibility & Deployment

✅ **Implemented & Production Ready**

#### Reproducibility
- **RunRecord** - Capture environment, config, versions
- **Experiment Tracking** - Timestamped runs, parameter logging
- **Diff Tools** - Compare experiment configurations
- **Registry** - Model versioning and lineage

#### Deployment
- **Artifact System** - Single-file model bundles
- **Version Checking** - Schema compatibility
- **Model Loading** - Restore trained models
- **Prediction Guards** - Confidence thresholding

⚠️ **Partially Implemented** (Scaffolds Present)

- **DeployedPredictor** (deploy/predict.py)
  - Artifact loading (placeholder)
  - Batch prediction (placeholder)
  - *Note: Interface defined but prediction logic is stubbed*

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### 13. Plugins & Extensibility

✅ **Implemented & Production Ready**

#### Plugin System
- Custom index plugins
- Custom loader plugins
- Custom workflow plugins
- Plugin discovery and registration

#### Registry System
- FeatureModelRegistry
- WorkflowRegistry
- Custom registries

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### 14. Reporting & Narrative

✅ **Implemented & Production Ready**

#### Report Generation
- HTML reports with plots
- Plain text summaries
- LaTeX-ready tables
- Journal-specific templates (Analyst, Food Chemistry)

#### Statistical Reporting
- Automated methods sections
- Results interpretation
- Effect size narratives
- P-value formatting

#### Checklists
- Reproducibility checklist
- Method reporting checklist
- Validation checklist

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## Known Gaps & TODOs

### 1. Incomplete Implementations (Scaffolds)

#### qc/health.py (0% coverage)
**Status:** Scaffold only, algorithms not implemented  
**TODOs:**
- SNR calculation from raw spectra
- Baseline drift detection algorithms
- Cosmic ray/spike counting
- Threshold definitions for pass/fail

**Impact:** Low - Other QC modules are functional

#### deploy/predict.py (Partial)
**Status:** Interface defined, prediction logic stubbed  
**TODOs:**
- Implement actual artifact loading
- Wire predictor.predict() calls
- Add input validation
- Add output formatting

**Impact:** Medium - Deployment scaffolding exists but needs completion

#### exp/runner.py (Partial)
**Status:** Experiment runner scaffolded  
**TODOs:**
- YAML/JSON experiment parsing
- Schema validation
- Integration with protocol runner
- Results aggregation

**Impact:** Low - Protocol system already works

#### workflows/library_search.py (Partial)
**Status:** Placeholder scoring  
**TODOs:**
- Implement actual spectral matching algorithms
- Distance metric selection
- Ranking and top-k retrieval
- Integration with spectral libraries

**Impact:** Low - Basic similarity metrics exist in features module

#### features/ratios.py (Minor TODOs)
**Status:** Core functionality works  
**TODOs:**
- Division-by-zero safeguards
- Optional calibration logic
- Robust error handling

**Impact:** Very Low - Basic ratio computation is functional

### 2. Limited Algorithm Coverage

#### Advanced Chemometrics
**Missing:**
- OPLS (Orthogonal PLS)
- MCR-ALS (Multivariate Curve Resolution)
- PARAFAC (Parallel Factor Analysis)
- Tucker decomposition

**Reason:** These are specialized techniques; PCA/PLS cover most use cases

#### Deep Learning
**Missing:**
- Convolutional Neural Networks for spectra
- Autoencoders for dimensionality reduction
- Transfer learning from pretrained models

**Reason:** Traditional ML performs well on spectroscopy data; DL adds complexity

#### Time-Series Analysis
**Limited:**
- ARIMA modeling
- State-space models
- Change-point detection
- Seasonal decomposition

**Current:** Linear trends and basic metrics only

### 3. Documentation Gaps

#### Missing User Guides
- Troubleshooting guide for common errors (exists but could expand)
- Performance optimization guide
- Large dataset handling guide
- GPU acceleration guide (if implemented)

#### Missing Theory Pages
- All core theory is present; additional specialized topics could be added

### 4. Testing Gaps

#### Lower Coverage Areas (<60%)
- `workflows/heating_trajectory.py` - 39% (main paths tested)
- `workflows/aging.py` - 38% (main paths tested)
- `qc/health.py` - 0% (scaffold only)
- Various CLI modules - 0-40% (functional but undertested)

**Note:** Overall coverage is 78.57%, meeting production standards

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## Future Enhancement Roadmap

### Priority 1: Complete Scaffolds

1. **Implement qc/health.py**
   - SNR calculation
   - Baseline drift metrics
   - Spike detection
   - Integration with QC workflows

2. **Complete deploy/predict.py**
   - Artifact loading logic
   - Prediction implementation
   - Input validation
   - Error handling

3. **Finish library_search.py**
   - Spectral matching algorithms
   - Distance metrics
   - Ranking system

**Estimated Effort:** 1-2 weeks

### Priority 2: Advanced Algorithms

1. **OPLS Implementation**
   - Orthogonal PLS for discriminant analysis
   - Improved interpretability

2. **Deep Learning Module**
   - 1D CNN for spectral classification
   - Autoencoder for feature learning
   - Transfer learning utilities

3. **Advanced Time Series**
   - Change-point detection
   - Seasonal models
   - Forecasting utilities

**Estimated Effort:** 1-2 months

### Priority 3: Performance Optimization

1. **GPU Acceleration**
   - CuPy integration for preprocessing
   - GPU-accelerated PCA/PLS
   - Batch processing optimization

2. **Parallel Processing**
   - Multiprocessing for I/O
   - Dask integration for large datasets
   - Chunked HDF5 operations

3. **Caching System**
   - Preprocessing result caching
   - Fingerprint caching
   - Model prediction caching

**Estimated Effort:** 1 month

### Priority 4: Extended Format Support

1. **Additional Vendor Formats**
   - Shimadzu .txt
   - JASCO .jws
   - Nicolet .dpt
   - Andor .asc

2. **Cloud Storage**
   - S3 integration
   - Azure Blob Storage
   - Google Cloud Storage

3. **Database Integration**
   - PostgreSQL connector
   - MongoDB for metadata
   - SQLite for local caching

**Estimated Effort:** 2-3 weeks

### Priority 5: User Experience

1. **Interactive Dashboard**
   - Streamlit/Dash web interface
   - Real-time visualization
   - Parameter tuning UI

2. **Jupyter Integration**
   - Magic commands
   - Interactive widgets
   - Notebook templates

3. **Tutorial Notebooks**
   - Step-by-step Jupyter notebooks
   - Video tutorials
   - Interactive examples

**Estimated Effort:** 1-2 months

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## Deprecation Schedule

### v2.0 Planned Removals

The following modules are deprecated and will be removed in v2.0:

1. **artifact.py** → Use `deploy.save_artifact`, `deploy.load_artifact`
2. **calibration_transfer.py** → Use `preprocess.calibration_transfer`
3. **heating_trajectory.py** → Use `workflows.heating_trajectory`
4. **matrix_correction.py** → Use `preprocess.matrix_correction`
5. **protocol_engine.py** → Use `protocol.ProtocolRunner`
6. **rq.py** → Use `features.rq`
7. **spectral_dataset.py** → Use `core.spectral_dataset`
8. **spectral_io.py** → Use `io` module

**Migration Guide:** See MIGRATION_GUIDE.md for details

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## Architecture Strengths

### What's Working Well

1. **Modular Design** - Clean separation of concerns across 23 modules
2. **High Test Coverage** - 78.57% with 685 passing tests
3. **Comprehensive Documentation** - 150+ pages covering theory and practice
4. **FAIR Principles** - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable data
5. **Reproducibility** - RunRecord, OutputBundle, versioning
6. **Vendor-Neutral** - Works with 10+ instrument formats
7. **Production-Ready** - Used in real workflows, stable API
8. **Extensible** - Plugin system, registries, custom workflows

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## Contributing Guidelines

### Adding New Features

1. **Check for Existing Implementation**
   - Search codebase for similar functionality
   - Check if it fits in existing module

2. **Follow Module Structure**
   - Place in appropriate submodule
   - Update `__init__.py` with exports
   - Add to `__all__` list

3. **Write Tests**
   - Aim for >75% coverage
   - Include edge cases
   - Add integration tests for workflows

4. **Document Thoroughly**
   - Add numpy-style docstrings
   - Include usage examples
   - Link to theory documentation

5. **Update Documentation**
   - Add API reference if needed
   - Update user guides
   - Add to example catalog if workflow

### Code Style

- **Formatting:** Black, isort, ruff
- **Type Hints:** Use throughout
- **Docstrings:** Numpy style
- **Naming:** PEP 8 conventions
- **Line Length:** 120 characters

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## Performance Characteristics

### Scalability

- **Small datasets** (<1000 spectra): Excellent performance
- **Medium datasets** (1000-10000 spectra): Good performance
- **Large datasets** (>10000 spectra): May need chunking/parallel processing

### Memory Usage

- **FoodSpectrumSet:** ~1MB per 1000 spectra (1000 wavelengths)
- **PCA:** Scales with n_samples × n_features
- **Cross-validation:** Memory scales linearly with n_folds

### Recommendations

- Use HDF5 for large datasets (>100MB)
- Enable chunking for preprocessing
- Use generators for batch processing
- Consider downsampling for exploratory analysis

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## Version History

- **v1.0.0** (December 2024) - Initial production release
  - 28,080 lines of code
  - 95 public APIs
  - 685 tests
  - 78.57% coverage
  - 16 production examples
  - 150+ pages documentation

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## Support & Resources

- **Documentation:** https://foodspec.readthedocs.io (or GitHub Pages)
- **Examples:** `/examples/` directory (16 workflows)
- **Issue Tracker:** GitHub Issues
- **Citation:** See CITATION.cff

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*Generated: December 25, 2024*  
*Maintainer: FoodSpec Development Team*
