“…In contrast to the statistical methods based on second-order moments, ICA uses fourth-order moment of the signals to obtain the latent variables (Wang et al, 2008). Recent applications of ICA for spectroscopic data interpretation includes processing of infrared spectra of marine organic matter aggregates (Monakhova et al, 2015), detection of orange juice frauds using front-face fluorescence spectroscopy (Ammari et al, 2015), spectrophotometric analysis of polysaccharide/milk protein interactions with methylene blue (Rohart et al, 2015), near-infrared spectroscopy for analysis of bioactive components (Chuang et al, 2014a), near infrared spectroscopy for evaluation of rice freshness (Chuang et al, 2014b), analysis of Raman images of pharmaceutical drug product (Boiret et al, 2014), fluorescence spectroscopy for studying interaction between plastic food packaging and olive oil (Kassouf et al, 2014) and to characterise organic matter in soils (Ammari et al, 2014). The outcomes of these studies indicate that ICA simplified the interpretation of the results by decomposing the original spectral data into ''source signals''.…”