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Stitch v1¶

Summary ¶

Stitches overlapping spectra from multiple 2D workspaces.

Properties ¶

Name	Direction	Type	Default	Description
InputWorkspaces	Input	str list	Mandatory	The names of the input workspaces or groups of those as a list. At least two compatible MatrixWorkspaces are required, having one spectrum each.
ReferenceWorkspace	Input	string		The name of the workspace that will serve as the reference; that is, the one that will not be scaled. If left blank, stitching will be performed left to right in the order of x-axes ascending, no matter the order of workspaces names in the input.
CombinationBehaviour	Input	string	Interleave	Allowed values: [‘Interleave’]
ScaleFactorCalculation	Input	string	MedianOfRatios	Allowed values: [‘MedianOfRatios’, ‘Manual’]
ManualScaleFactors	Input	dbl list		Manually specified scale factors, must follow the same order of the workspaces in the list.
TieScaleFactors	Input	boolean	False	Whether or not to calculate a single scale factor per workspace for all the spectra.
OutputWorkspace	Output	MatrixWorkspace	Mandatory	The output workspace.
OutputScaleFactorsWorkspace	Output	MatrixWorkspace		The output workspace containing the applied scale factors.

This algorithm performs stitching of multiple 2D workspaces. Stitching is the operation of scaling one workspace to match the scale of another one in the overlap region and the combination of the workspaces after scale matching. For each pair of adjacent workspaces in the input, it will find the overlap, interpolate one to another in the overlap region, make the ratio and find the scaling factor. Then each workspace will be scaled with that factor, and finally all the workspaces will be combined.

Inputs ¶

InputWorkspaces ¶

The list of input workspace or workspace group names. The workspace groups will be flattened to a list of workspaces. Note that because of this type of input that relies on WorkspaceGroups, this algorithm is currently supported only for named workspaces present on ADS. The inputs can be in any order in terms of their x-axis extent. The algorithm will first sort them ascending in terms of x-intervals. Then it will start stitching iteratively to the left and to the right starting from the reference workspace. The input workspaces must be point-data and must have common bins.

ReferenceWorkspace ¶

The name of the workspace that will not be scaled. This means that other workspaces will be scaled to match up the scale of the reference one. The reference is optional; if it is not specified, the workspace with the lowest x-axis interval will be taken as reference, which means that the stitching will iterate left-to-right.

CombinationBehaviour ¶

At the moment the only option is interleave, which means that all the points from all the inputs will be preserved and the output will be sorted by the x-axis values.

ScaleFactorCalculation ¶

By default it will calculate the median of the point-wise ratios. This is robust in the sense that it is not sensitive to outliers. This can be set to manual, in which case the scale factors can be specified by the user.

ManualScaleFactors ¶

Those must be in the same order as the workspaces in the original input list. By setting those to 1. one could enforce no-scale stitching.

TieScaleFactors ¶

If this is checked, one will enforce that the scale factor calculated between two workspaces is the global median of point-wise ratios in the overlapping region and is hence constant for all the spectra. Otherwise, for each spectra, it will find the median for that spectrum and scale each spectrum with its own factor. Manual factors can only be considered as tied, i.e. they will be applied to all the spectra.

OutputWorkspace ¶

The workspace containing the stitched outputs.

OutputScaleFactorsWorkspace ¶

An optional output workspace to store the scale factors. If manual or tied scale factors are used, this will be a single spectrum workspace containing those factors in the original order. Without ties this will contain as many spectra as the inputs, each of which will contain the scale factors for that spectrum.

Usage ¶

Example - Stitch

np.random.seed(179864)
x1 = np.linspace(0,100,11)
y1 = 5 + np.sin(x1) + np.random.normal(scale=0.001)
ws1 = CreateWorkspace(DataX=x1,DataY=y1,NSpec=1)
x2 = np.linspace(50,150,11)
y2 = 7 + np.cos(x2) + np.random.normal(scale=0.001)
ws2 = CreateWorkspace(DataX=x2,DataY=y2,NSpec=1)
st = Stitch([ws1,ws2])
print(f'Stitched curve has {st.blocksize()} points')

Output:

Stitched curve has 22 points

Categories: AlgorithmIndex | Transforms\Merging

Source ¶

C++ header: Stitch.h

C++ source: Stitch.cpp