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Nondestructive internal quality inspection of pear fruit by X-ray CT using machine learning
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Abstract
To preserve the quality of fresh pear fruit after harvest and deliver quality fruit year-round a controlled supply chain and long-term storage are applied. During storage, however, internal disorders can develop due to suboptimal storage conditions that may not cause externally visible symptoms. This makes them impossible to be detected by current commercial quality grading systems in a reliable and non-destructive way. A combination of a Support Vector Machine coupled with a feature extraction algorithm and X-ray Computed Tomography is proposed to successfully detect internal disorders in 'Conference' and 'Cepuna' pear fruit nondestructively. Classifiers were able to distinguish defective from sound fruit with classification accuracies ranging between 90.2 and 95.1% depending on the cultivar and number of used features. Moreover, low false positive and negative rates were obtained, respectively ranging between 0.0 and 6.7%, and 5.7 and 13.3%. Classifiers trained on 'Conference' data were transferred effectively to the 'Cepuna' cultivar, suggesting generalizability to other cultivars as well. With continuing developments in both hardware and software to increase inspection speed and reduce equipment costs, the method can be implemented in industrial applications, e.g., inline translational X-ray CT.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Food control. - Guildford
Publication
Guildford : 2020
ISSN
0956-7135
DOI
10.1016/J.FOODCONT.2020.107170
Volume/pages
113 (2020) , 13 p.
Article Reference
107170
ISI
000525322400030
Medium
E-only publicatie
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Creation 05.05.2020
Last edited 12.12.2024
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