The detection of aflatoxin B in raw food materials represents a topic of great interest worldwide because of the huge health and economic impact of aflatoxin contamination. In this paper, we present an original approach to aflatoxin detection, using a portable instrument to acquire fluorescence images, among other spectral responses. The acquired images are processed by combining a color space conversion from the RGB scale to Y′CbCr, and a neural network approach to encode a vector of features. After a feature reduction using a Receiving Operating Curve method, two-class and three-class classification tasks of contaminated vs non-contaminated samples are accomplished. This procedure has been applied to artificially contaminated grained almond samples in the range of 0–320.2 ng/g, achieving an overall classification accuracy between 84.7% and 93.0%, depending on the number of classes. Thus, in this setting, we show that good classification performance can be achieved using only an image acquisition and analysis approach. The proposed procedure can represent a cheap, rapid, non-destructive yet sensitive method for the assessment of aflatoxin B contamination in food matrices, and its monitoring and tracing throughout the food chain.

Bertani, F.r., Mencattini, A., Gambacorta, L., De Ninno, A., Businaro, L., Solfrizzo, M., et al. (2024). Aflatoxins detection in almonds via fluorescence imaging and deep neural network approach. JOURNAL OF FOOD COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS, 125 [10.1016/j.jfca.2023.105850].

Aflatoxins detection in almonds via fluorescence imaging and deep neural network approach

Mencattini A.;De Ninno A.;Martinelli E.
2024-01-01

Abstract

The detection of aflatoxin B in raw food materials represents a topic of great interest worldwide because of the huge health and economic impact of aflatoxin contamination. In this paper, we present an original approach to aflatoxin detection, using a portable instrument to acquire fluorescence images, among other spectral responses. The acquired images are processed by combining a color space conversion from the RGB scale to Y′CbCr, and a neural network approach to encode a vector of features. After a feature reduction using a Receiving Operating Curve method, two-class and three-class classification tasks of contaminated vs non-contaminated samples are accomplished. This procedure has been applied to artificially contaminated grained almond samples in the range of 0–320.2 ng/g, achieving an overall classification accuracy between 84.7% and 93.0%, depending on the number of classes. Thus, in this setting, we show that good classification performance can be achieved using only an image acquisition and analysis approach. The proposed procedure can represent a cheap, rapid, non-destructive yet sensitive method for the assessment of aflatoxin B contamination in food matrices, and its monitoring and tracing throughout the food chain.
2024
Pubblicato
Rilevanza internazionale
Articolo
Esperti anonimi
Settore ING-INF/07
English
Aflatoxin B rapid detection
Colour space conversion
Image analysis
Machine learning
Portable instrument
Bertani, F.r., Mencattini, A., Gambacorta, L., De Ninno, A., Businaro, L., Solfrizzo, M., et al. (2024). Aflatoxins detection in almonds via fluorescence imaging and deep neural network approach. JOURNAL OF FOOD COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS, 125 [10.1016/j.jfca.2023.105850].
Bertani, Fr; Mencattini, A; Gambacorta, L; De Ninno, A; Businaro, L; Solfrizzo, M; Gerardino, A; Martinelli, E
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