Title: Applications of hyperspectral and optical scattering imaging technique in the detection of food microorganism

Authors: Jing Xu; Long Ma; Jie Wu; Xiaomeng Xu; Ye Sun; Qiang Liu; Leiqing Pan; Kang Tu

Addresses: Department of Food and Bioengineering, Bengbu College, Bengbu, Anhui 233030, China ' Department of Food and Bioengineering, Bengbu College, Bengbu, Anhui 233030, China ' Department of Food and Bioengineering, Bengbu College, Bengbu, Anhui 233030, China ' Department of Food and Bioengineering, Bengbu College, Bengbu, Anhui 233030, China ' College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China ' College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China ' College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China ' College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China; Department of Food and Bioengineering, Bengbu College, Bengbu, Anhui 233030, China

Abstract: Food is very easy to contaminate microorganism during production, processing, storage and transportation, the mass propagation of microorganism can cause food deterioration so that the food-borne pollution and food poisoning will occur with a serious threat to human health. However, the traditional methods for microorganism detection are complicated in process, poor in timeliness or low in sensitivity and are hard to meet the increasing requirements of the rapid and accurate detection, becoming the bottleneck for food quality and safety detection. With collecting the relevant information, then algorithm processing information and finally the relevant models, the modern optical imaging technique can achieve the rapid detection of food quality information. This article reviews in detail the latest developments of hyperspectral imaging and optical scattering techniques in the non-destructive detection of the food microbial contamination and discusses the advantages and deficiency of the various techniques.

Keywords: optical scattering; food microorganism; detection; hyperspectral imaging.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCVR.2018.093073

International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics, 2018 Vol.8 No.3, pp.267 - 282

Received: 04 Mar 2017
Accepted: 26 Jul 2017
Published online: 07 Jul 2018 *

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