diff --git a/R/filterCells.R b/R/filterCells.R
index ba3bcc7..fbd0d1b 100644
--- a/R/filterCells.R
+++ b/R/filterCells.R
@@ -26,6 +26,15 @@
 #'   than it are kept.
 #'   Default = TRUE
 #'
+#' @param detected (character) Column name in sce giving the number of unique
+#'   genes detected per cell. This name is inherited by default from scater's
+#'   addPerCellQC() function.
+#'
+#' @param subsets_mito_percent (character) Column name in sce giving the
+#'   percent of reads mapping to mitochondrial genes. This name is inherited
+#'   from scater's addPerCellQC() function, provided the subset "mito" with
+#'   names of all mitochondrial genes is passed in. See examples for details.
+#'
 #' @param verbose (boolean) Whether to report how many cells (columns) are being
 #'   removed from the SingleCellExperiment object.
 #'   Default = TRUE
@@ -53,9 +62,13 @@
 
 filterCells <- function(sce, model = NULL, posterior_cutoff = 0.75,
                         keep_all_below_boundary = TRUE,
-                        enforce_left_cutoff = TRUE, verbose = TRUE) {
+                        enforce_left_cutoff = TRUE, 
+                        detected = "detected", subsets_mito_percent = "subsets_mito_percent",
+                        verbose = TRUE) {
     metrics <- as.data.frame(colData(sce))
-
+    colnames(metrics)[colnames(metrics)==detected] <- "detected"
+    colnames(metrics)[colnames(metrics)==subsets_mito_percent] <- "subsets_mito_percent"
+  
     if (is.null(model)) {
         warning("call 'mixtureModel' explicitly to get stable model features")
         model <- mixtureModel(sce)
diff --git a/R/get1DCutoff.R b/R/get1DCutoff.R
index 475c4b0..945441b 100644
--- a/R/get1DCutoff.R
+++ b/R/get1DCutoff.R
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 get1DCutoff <- function(sce, model = NULL, posterior_cutoff = 0.75,
                         subsets_mito_percent = "subsets_mito_percent") {
     metrics <- as.data.frame(colData(sce))
+    colnames(metrics)[colnames(metrics)==subsets_mito_percent] <- "subsets_mito_percent"
     
     if (is.null(model)) {
         warning("call 'mixtureModel' explicitly to get stable model features")
diff --git a/R/mixtureModel.R b/R/mixtureModel.R
index 426ba65..c3a3f37 100644
--- a/R/mixtureModel.R
+++ b/R/mixtureModel.R
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@
 mixtureModel <- function(sce, model_type = "linear", detected = "detected",
                             subsets_mito_percent = "subsets_mito_percent") {
     metrics <- as.data.frame(colData(sce))
+    colnames(metrics)[colnames(metrics)==detected] <- "detected"
+    colnames(metrics)[colnames(metrics)==subsets_mito_percent] <- "subsets_mito_percent"
 
     if (model_type == "linear") {
         model <- flexmix(subsets_mito_percent~detected,
diff --git a/R/plotFiltering.R b/R/plotFiltering.R
index 000b5c1..9a959d0 100644
--- a/R/plotFiltering.R
+++ b/R/plotFiltering.R
@@ -65,7 +65,9 @@ plotFiltering <- function(sce, model = NULL, posterior_cutoff = 0.75,
                             detected = "detected",
                             subsets_mito_percent = "subsets_mito_percent") {
     metrics <- as.data.frame(colData(sce))
-
+    colnames(metrics)[colnames(metrics)==detected] <- "detected"
+    colnames(metrics)[colnames(metrics)==subsets_mito_percent] <- "subsets_mito_percent"
+  
     if (is.null(model)) {
         warning("call 'mixtureModel' explicitly to get stable model features")
         model <- mixtureModel(sce)
diff --git a/R/plotMetrics.R b/R/plotMetrics.R
index 6cb0dbf..a9b0b19 100644
--- a/R/plotMetrics.R
+++ b/R/plotMetrics.R
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ plotMetrics <- function(sce, detected = "detected",
                         palette = "#33ADFF") {
     metrics <- as.data.frame(colData(sce))
 
+    colnames(metrics)[colnames(metrics)==detected] <- "detected"
+    colnames(metrics)[colnames(metrics)==subsets_mito_percent] <- "subsets_mito_percent"
+ 
     p <- ggplot(metrics, aes(x = detected, y = subsets_mito_percent)) +
         labs(x = "Unique genes found", y = "Percent reads mitochondrial") +
         geom_point(colour = palette)
diff --git a/R/plotModel.R b/R/plotModel.R
index 8590e70..a3e33b0 100644
--- a/R/plotModel.R
+++ b/R/plotModel.R
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
 plotModel <- function(sce, model = NULL, detected = "detected",
                         subsets_mito_percent = "subsets_mito_percent") {
     metrics <- as.data.frame(colData(sce))
+    colnames(metrics)[colnames(metrics)==detected] <- "detected"
+    colnames(metrics)[colnames(metrics)==subsets_mito_percent] <- "subsets_mito_percent"
 
     if (is.null(model)) {
         warning("call 'mixtureModel' explicitly to get stable model features")