Cardinal is an R package that implements statistical & computational tools for analyzing mass spectrometry imaging datasets. More information on Cardinal
This tool provides three different Cardinal functions for supervised classification of mass-spectrometry imaging data.
Input data: 3 types of input data can be used:
- imzml file (upload imzml and ibd file via the "composite" function) Introduction to the imzml format
- Analyze7.5 (upload hdr, img and t2m file via the "composite" function)
- Cardinal "MSImageSet" data (with variable name "msidata", saved as .RData)
Options:
- PLS(-DA): partial least square (discriminant analysis)
- O-PLS(-DA): Orthogonal partial least squares (discriminant analysis)
- Spatial shrunken centroids
Output:
- Pdf with the heatmaps and plots for the classification
- Tabular file with information on masses and pixels: toplabels/classes (PLS, spatial shrunken centroids)
- optional RData output to further explore the results with Cardinal in R