Non-destructively Prediction of Quality Parameters of Dry-Cured Iberian Ham by Applying Computer Vision and Low-Field MRI

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  • Juan Pedro Torres
  • Mar Ávila
  • Andrés Caro
  • Trinidad Pérez-Palacios
  • Daniel Caballero

Computer vision algorithms and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) have been proposed to obtain quality traits of Iberian hams, due to the non-destructive, non-ionizing and innocuous nature of these approaches. However, all the proposals have been based on high-field MRI scanners, which obtain high quality images but also involve very high economical costs. In this paper, low-field MRI devices and three classical texture algorithms were used to predict quality traits of Iberian ham. Prediction equation of quality features were obtained, which estimate the quality parameters as a function of computational textures. The texture features were obtained by applying three well-known classical texture algorithms (GLCM - Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix, GLRLM - Gray Level Run Length Matrix and NGLDM - Neighbouring Gray Level Dependence Matrix) on low-field MRI. Being the first approach that exploits this type of scanner for this purpose in dry-cured meat, the predicted elements were compared and correlated to the results obtained by means of traditional physico-chemical methods. The obtained correlation were higher than 0.7 for almost all the quality traits, reached very good to excellent relationship. These high correlations between both sets of data (traditional and estimated results) prove that low-field MRI combined with texture algorithms could be used to estimate the quality traits of meat products in a non-destructive and efficient way.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPattern Recognition and Image Analysis : 9th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2019, Proceedings
EditorsAythami Morales, Julian Fierrez, José Salvador Sánchez, Bernardete Ribeiro
Number of pages10
Volume1
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2019
Pages498-507
ISBN (Print)978-3-030-31331-9
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-31332-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event9th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2019 - Madrid, Spain
Duration: 1 Jul 20194 Jul 2019

Conference

Conference9th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2019
LandSpain
ByMadrid
Periode01/07/201904/07/2019
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume11867
ISSN0302-9743

    Research areas

  • MRI, Prediction, Quality parameters, Texture algorithms

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