“…In classification applications, samples are assigned to groups based on their IR spectrochemical signature. This includes, for example, differentiation of brain tumour types (3), identification of neurodegenerative diseases (4), cervical cancer screening (5), endometrial and ovarian cancer identification (6), identification of prostate cancer tissue samples (7), differentiation of endometrial tissue regions (8), toxicology screening (9,10), and microbiologic studies involving fungi and virus identification (11)(12)(13). However, before model construction, a fundamental step is to split the spectral dataset into at least two subsets: training and test.…”