scholarly journals Non-Destructive Identification of Naturally Aged Alfalfa Seeds via Multispectral Imaging Analysis

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (17) ◽  
pp. 5804
Author(s):  
Xuemeng Wang ◽  
Han Zhang ◽  
Rui Song ◽  
Xin He ◽  
Peisheng Mao ◽  
...  

Seed aging detection and viable seed prediction are of great significance in alfalfa seed production, but traditional methods are disposable and destructive. Therefore, the establishment of a rapid and non-destructive seed screening method is necessary in seed industry and research. In this study, we used multispectral imaging technology to collect morphological features and spectral traits of aging alfalfa seeds with different storage years. Then, we employed five multivariate analysis methods, i.e., principal component analysis (PCA), linear discrimination analysis (LDA), support vector machines (SVM), random forest (RF) and normalized canonical discriminant analysis (nCDA) to predict aged and viable seeds. The results revealed that the mean light reflectance was significantly different at 450~690 nm between non-aged and aged seeds. LDA model held high accuracy (99.8~100.0%) in distinguishing aged seeds from non-aged seeds, higher than those of SVM (87.4~99.3%) and RF (84.6~99.3%). Furthermore, dead seeds could be distinguished from the aged seeds, with accuracies of 69.7%, 72.0% and 97.6% in RF, SVM and LDA, respectively. The accuracy of nCDA in predicting the germination of aged seeds ranged from 75.0% to 100.0%. In summary, we described a nondestructive, rapid and high-throughput approach to screen aged seeds with various viabilities in alfalfa.

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (22) ◽  
pp. 6575
Author(s):  
Lingjie Yang ◽  
Zuxin Zhang ◽  
Xiaowen Hu

Rapid and accurate discrimination of alfalfa cultivars is crucial for producers, consumers, and market regulators. However, the conventional routine of alfalfa cultivars discrimination is time-consuming and labor-intensive. In this study, the potential of a new method was evaluated that used multispectral imaging combined with object-wise multivariate image analysis to distinguish alfalfa cultivars with a single seed. Three multivariate analysis methods including principal component analysis (PCA), linear discrimination analysis (LDA), and support vector machines (SVM) were applied to distinguish seeds of 12 alfalfa cultivars based on their morphological and spectral traits. The results showed that the combination of morphological features and spectral data could provide an exceedingly concise process to classify alfalfa seeds of different cultivars with multivariate analysis, while it failed to make the classification with only seed morphological features. Seed classification accuracy of the testing sets was 91.53% for LDA, and 93.47% for SVM. Thus, multispectral imaging combined with multivariate analysis could provide a simple, robust and nondestructive method to distinguish alfalfa seed cultivars.


2018 ◽  
Vol 156 (9) ◽  
pp. 1103-1110 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Yu ◽  
S. Ren ◽  
C. Liu ◽  
B. Wei ◽  
L. Zhang ◽  
...  

AbstractThe feasibility of non-destructive detection and classification of in-shell insect-infested almonds was examined by using multispectral imaging (MSI) technology combined with chemometrics. Differentiation of reflectance spectral data between intact and insect-infested almonds was attempted by using analytical approaches based on principal component analysis and support vector machines, classification accuracy rates as high as 99.1% in the calibration set and 97.5% in the prediction set were achieved. Meanwhile, the in-shell almonds were categorized into three classes (intact, slightly infested and severely infested) based on the degree of damage caused by insect infestation and were characterized quantitatively by the analysis of shell/kernel weight ratio. A three-class model for the identification of intact, slightly infested and severely infested almonds yielded acceptable classification performance (95.6% accuracy in the calibration set and 93.3% in the prediction set). These results revealed that MSI technology combined with chemometrics may be a promising approach for the non-destructive detection of hidden insect damage in almonds and could be used for industrial applications.


2014 ◽  
Vol 154 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. LIU ◽  
W. LIU ◽  
X. LU ◽  
W. CHEN ◽  
F. CHEN ◽  
...  

SUMMARYSoybean is an important oil- and protein-producing crop and over the last few decades soybean genetic transformation has made rapid strides. The probability of occurrence of transgene flow should be assessed, although the discrimination of conventional and transgenic soybean seeds and their hybrid descendants is difficult in fields. The feasibility of non-destructive discrimination of conventional and glyphosate-resistant soybean seeds and their hybrid descendants was examined by a multispectral imaging system combined with chemometric methods. Principal component analysis (PCA), partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLSDA), least squares-support vector machines (LS-SVM) and back propagation neural network (BPNN) methods were applied to classify soybean seeds. The current results demonstrated that clear differences among conventional and glyphosate-resistant soybean seeds and their hybrid descendants could be easily visualized and an excellent classification (98% with BPNN model) could be achieved. It was concluded that multispectral imaging together with chemometric methods would be a promising technique to identify transgenic soybean seeds with high efficiency.


2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaowen Hu ◽  
Lingjie Yang ◽  
Zuxin Zhang ◽  
Yanrong Wang

It is hard to remove sweet clover seeds from alfalfa seed lots by conventional methods, affecting the purity of seed lots and resulting losses in for alfalfa hay production as well as seed yield. However, the discrimination of sweet clover seed contaminates in alfalfa seed lots is difficult without special training. In this study, multispectral imaging with object-wise multivariate image analysis was evaluated for its potential to separate sweet clover and alfalfa seeds. Principal component analysis (PCA), linear discrimination analysis (LDA), partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLSDA), AdaBoost and support vector machine (SVM) methods were applied to classify seeds of sweet clover and alfalfa according to their morphological features and spectral traits or a combination thereof. The results showed that an excellent classification could be achieved based on a combination of morphological features and spectral data in a tested data set. Seed classification accuracy was up to 99.58% in a validation set with the LDA model, which was better than the PLSDA (68.19%), AdaBoost (96.95%) and SVM (98.47%) models. Thus, multispectral imaging together with chemometric multivariate analysis is a promising technique to identify sweet clover seeds in alfalfa seed lots with high efficiency.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiqi Hong ◽  
Yong He

Longjing tea is one of China’s protected geographical indication products with high commercial and nutritional value. The geographical origin of Longjing tea is an important factor influencing its commercial and nutritional value. Hyperspectral imaging systems covering the two spectral ranges of 380–1030 nm and 874–1734 nm were used to identify a single tea leaf of Longjing tea from six geographical origins. Principal component analysis (PCA) was conducted on hyperspectral images to form PCA score images. Differences among samples from different geographical origins were visually observed from the PCA score images. Support vector machine (SVM) and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) models were built using the full spectra at the two spectral ranges. Decent classification performances were obtained at the two spectral ranges, with the overall classification accuracy of the calibration and prediction sets over 84%. Furthermore, prediction maps for geographical origins identification of Longjing tea were obtained by applying the SVM models on the hyperspectral images. The overall results illustrate that hyperspectral imaging at both spectral ranges can be applied to identify the geographical origin of single tea leaves of Longjing tea. This study provides a new, rapid, and non-destructive alternative for Longjing tea geographical origins identification.


2014 ◽  
Vol 926-930 ◽  
pp. 961-964
Author(s):  
Jiao Jiao Yin

Because the reflectivity of astaxanthin vary in different bands (mainly 400nm-600nm), so we use the visible-near infrared spectra technique to irradiate the salmon. Because in daily life, people grade the salmon flesh with a color card. In this paper, we first use principal component analysis to reduce the dimensionality of the spectral data of salmon, then use linear discriminant analysis method, least squares support vector machine classification method to distinguish the flesh quality. The correct classification rates are 60%and73.3%. The results show that we can use visible – near infrared spectra to distinguish the quality of the salmon which doesn’t be dissected.


2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (No. 6) ◽  
pp. 538-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Sanaeifar ◽  
S.S. Mohtasebi ◽  
M. Ghasemi-Varnamkhasti ◽  
H. Ahmadi ◽  
J. Lozano

Potential application of a metal oxide semiconductor based electronic nose (e-nose) as a non-destructive instrument for monitoring the change in volatile production of banana during the ripening process was studied. The proposed e-nose does not need any advanced or expensive laboratory equipment and proved to be reliable in recording meaningful differences between ripening stages. Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Soft Independent Modelling of Class Analogy (SIMCA) and Support Vector Machines (SVM) techniques were used for this purpose. Results showed that the proposed e-nose can distinguish between different ripening stages. The e-nose was able to detect a clear difference in the aroma fingerprint of banana when using SVM analysis compared with PCA and LDA, SIMCA analysis. Using SVM analysis, it was possible to differentiate and to classify the different banana ripening stages, and this method was able to classify 98.66% of the total samples in each respective group. Sensor array capabilities in the classification of ripening stages using loading analysis and SVM and SIMCA were also investigated, which leads to develop the application of a specific e-nose system by applying the most effective sensors or ignoring the redundant sensors.  


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Wei Liu ◽  
Xue Xu ◽  
Changhong Liu ◽  
Lei Zheng

The detection of authenticity is essential to the development and management of Thai jasmine rice industry. In this study, the multispectral imaging system (405–970 nm) was used for the detection of adulteration in Thai jasmine rice combined with chemometric methods including principal component analysis (PCA), partial least squares (PLS), least squares-support vector machines (LS-SVM), and backpropagation neural network (BPNN). Three varieties of rice that were similar to Thai jasmine rice in appearance were selected to perform the classification and quantitative prediction experiments by multispectral images. For the classification experiment, four varieties of rice samples could be easily classified with accuracy achieved to 92% by the BPNN model. For the quantitative prediction of adulteration proportion experiments, the results showed that, among the different chemometric methods, LS-SVM achieved the best prediction performance comparing the results of coefficient of determination, root-mean-square error (RMSEP), bias, and residual predictive deviation (RPD). It can be concluded that multispectral imaging technology with chemometric methods can be applied in the rapid and nondestructive detection of authenticity of Thai jasmine rice.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Αθηνά Ροπόδη

Τη σημερινή εποχή, οι καταναλωτές απαιτούν συνεχή επιβεβαίωση της προέλευσης, της ποιότητας και της συμμόρφωσης με την ετικέτα των τροφίμων που αγοράζουν. Για το λόγο αυτό, οι βιομηχανίες τροφίμων, οι έμποροι και οι αρχές είναι αναγκαίο να αναπτύξουν προηγμένες, αποτελεσματικές και χαμηλού κόστους λύσεις για τη διασφάλιση της ποιότητας και τον εντοπισμό δόλιων πρακτικών. Σε αυτό το πλαίσιο, η μελέτη αυτή εστιάζει (α) στην πολυφασματική απεικόνιση (Multispectral Imaging-MSI), (β) την φασματοσκοπία υπέρυθρου με μετασχηματισμό Fourier (Fourier Transform Infrared -FTIR spectrometry) και (γ) την εφαρμογή προηγμένων μεθόδων ανάλυσης δεδομένων και μηχανικής μάθησης. Όσον αφορά την ποιότητα, εξετάστηκε η αποτελεσματικότητα των προαναφερόμενων μεθόδων σε σχέση με (α) τον εντοπισμό της μη-συμμόρφωσης με την ετικέτα ή/και δόλιων πρακτικών και (β) τη μικροβιολογική αλλοίωση. Οι ακόλουθες αναλύσεις, έλαβαν χώρα:Στην 1η περίπτωση, εξετάστηκε η νοθεία του μοσχαρίσιου κιμά με χοιρινό. Χρησιμοποιήθηκαν 220 πολυφασματικές εικόνες δειγμάτων από 4 ανεξάρτητες πειραματικές διαδικασίες (κομμάτια κρέατος διαφορετικής προέλευσης). Η νοθεία έγινε με βήμα 10% w/w, δημιουργώντας 11 κατηγορίες (συμπεριλαμβανομένων των ανόθευτων χοιρινών και μοσχαρίσιων δειγμάτων). Μετά από ένα στάδιο προεπεξεργασίας της εικόνας, εφαρμόστηκαν η Ιεραρχική Ανάλυση Συστάδων (Hierarchical Cluster Analysis - HCA) και Ανάλυση Κυρίων Συνιστωσών (Principal Component Analysis - PCA). Παρατηρήθηκαν δε σημαντικές διαφορές μεταξύ των διαφορετικών κομματιών κρέατος και των διαφορετικών κλάσεων όταν και τα τρία πρώτα ζευγάρια κομματιών κρέατος συμπεριλήφθηκαν στην ανάλυση. Μετά την κατάτμηση των δεδομένων σε σετ εκπαίδευσης και επικύρωσης, τα δεδομένα του τέταρτου ζεύγους χρησιμοποιήθηκαν για ανεξάρτητη επικύρωση και εφαρμόστηκαν οι μέθοδοι Γραμμικής Διακριτικής Ανάλυσης και Μερικών Ελαχίστων Τετραγώνων Linear Discriminant Analysis - LDA, Partial least-squares discriminant analysis – PLSDA) για 11 και για 3 (ανόθευτα χοιρινά, μοσχαρίσια και νοθευμένα) κλάσεις. Στην περίπτωση των 11 κλάσεων, 98.48% και 96.97% των δειγμάτων κατηγοριοποιήθηκαν εντός μιας ±10% κατηγορίας για LDA και PLSDA αντίστοιχα, ενώ στην περίπτωση των τριών επιτεύχθηκε σωστή κατηγοριοποίηση 98.48%. Τα αποτελέσματα της ανεξάρτητης επικύρωσης ήταν λιγότερο ακριβή για την LDA, αλλά με την PLSDA όλα τα δείγματα κατηγοριοποιήθηκαν σωστά, αποδεικνύοντας ότι το ποσοστό 10% είναι εντός των ορίων ανίχνευσης.Στην δεύτερη περίπτωση, 110 δείγματα κιμά τριών διαφορετικών κομματιών κρέατος από μοσχάρι και άλογο και επιπλέον εικόνες που ελήφθησαν μετά από 6, 24 και 48 ώρες χρησιμοποιήθηκαν για την ανίχνευση νοθείας. Η PCA χρησιμοποιήθηκε για οπτικοποίηση των δεδομένων, ενώ οι μέθοδοι PLSDA και Random Forest (RF) για κατηγοριοποίηση μεταξύ διαφορετικών ποσοστών νοθείας (4 κλάσεις), ανόθευτων μοσχαρίσιων, ανόθευτων αλογίσιων και νοθευμένων, ανόθευτων και νοθευμένων, και τέλος μεταξύ φρέσκων και συντηρημένων δειγμάτων. Τα μοντέλα κατά την ανεξάρτητη επικύρωση δεν είχαν υψηλή ακρίβεια. Στο τέλος, προτιμήθηκε η χρήση μηχανών διανυσμάτων υποστήριξης (Support Vector Machines – SVMs) σε δύο στάδια προκειμένου να διαχωριστούν τα φρέσκα από τα συντηρημένα δείγματα και μετά τα νοθευμένα από τα ανόθευτα. Έτσι, επιτεύχθηκε ποσοστό σωστής κατηγοριοποίησης 95.31% στο ανεξάρτητο σετ επικύρωσης.Στην τρίτη περίπτωση, ελήφθησαν πολυφασματικές εικόνες και φάσματα FTIR από κιμά επτά διαφορετικών κομματιών και από αντίστοιχα αποψυγμένα δείγματα που είχαν καταψυχθεί στους -20°C για 7 και 32 μέρες (συνολικά 105 εικόνες και φάσματα). Η PCA χρησιμοποιήθηκε για τη διερεύνηση των δεδομένων, ενώ PLSDA και SVM πέτυχαν 100% σωστή κατηγοριοποίηση μεταξύ φρέσκων και αποψυγμένων κατά την επικύρωση και την ανεξάρτητη επικύρωση με χρήση πολυφασματικών εικόνων. Η FTIR ήταν λιγότερο ακριβής με 93.3 και 96.7% αντίστοιχα.Στην 4η και 5η περίπτωση, διερευνήθηκε η αλλοίωση του βοδινού κιμά. Στην 4η περίπτωση, χρησιμοποιώντας τη διαδικτυακή εφαρμογή “MeatReg”, χρησιμοποιήθηκαν επτά διαφορετικές μέθοδοι για την εκτίμηση του μικροβιακού πληθυσμού. Τα δεδομένα αποτελούνταν από 105 δείγματα συντηρημένα σε δυο διαφορετικές συσκευασίες -αέρας και modified air packaging (MAP - 20% CO2/ 80% O2)- και δύο θερμοκρασίες (4 και 10°C), μικροβιολογικές αναλύσεις (Pseudomonads, Lactobacilli, B. thermosphacta and Enterobacteriaceae, Ολική Μεσόφιλη Χλωρίδα - ΟΜΧ). Τα δεδομένα πολυφασματικής απεικόνισης και FTIR συγκρίθηκαν με αυτά από ηλεκτρονική μύτη, υγρή χρωματογραφία υψηλής απόδοσης (HPLC) και αέρια χρωματογραφία/ φασματοσκοπία μάζας (GC-MS). Τα αποτελέσματα διαφοροποιήθηκαν αρκετά ανάλογα το είδος του οργάνου και της ομάδας μικροοργανισμών. Παρόλα αυτά υπήρξε καλή ακρίβεια, με την μέθοδο RF να δίνει τα καλύτερα αποτελέσματα.Ομοίως στην 5η περίπτωση, 168 δείγματα βοδινού κιμά αναλύθηκαν ως προς την ΟΜΧ, ενώ παράλληλα έγιναν μετρήσεις FTIR. Τα δείγματα είχαν συντηρηθεί σε αέρα και MAP στους 4 και 10°C. Χρησιμοποιήθηκε μία προσέγγιση βασισμένη στην μεθοδολογία των ensemble μοντέλων, όπου η εκτίμηση της αλλοίωσης έγινε βάσει μίας μίξης αποτελεσμάτων επιμέρους νευρωνικών δικτύων (artificial neural networks). Το μέσο τετραγωνικό σφάλμα της πρόβλεψης ήταν 0.16 (log CFU/g)^2.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nirzari Gupta ◽  
Jason D. Rodriguez ◽  
Huzeyfe Yilmaz

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic created an increased demand for hygiene supplies such as hand sanitizers. In response, a large number of new domestic or imported hand sanitizer products entered the US market. Some of these products were later found to be out of specification. Here, to quickly assess the quality of the hand sanitizer products, a quantitative, through-container screening method was developed for rapid and non-destructive screening. Using spatially offset Raman spectroscopy (SORS) and support vector regression (SVR), active ingredients (e.g., type of alcohol) of 173 commercial and in-house products were identified and quantified regardless of the container material or opacity. Alcohol content in hand sanitizer formulations were predicted with high accuracy $$(R^2\, > \,0.98)$$ ( R 2 > 0.98 ) using SVR and $$94\%$$ 94 % of the substandard test samples were identified. In sum, a SORS-SVR method was developed and used for testing medical countermeasures used against COVID-19, demonstrating a potential for high-volume testing during public health threats.


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