Applications of Spectroscopy Combined with Machine Learning in Food Quality and Safety: Second Edition
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Analytical Methods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 360
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food safety; food quality; food authenticity; hyperspectral imaging; NIR; machine learning
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Interests: deep learning; hyperspectral imaging; plant phenotyping
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The first edition (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/foods/special_issues/1O3R8F3GGG) of this Special Issue was incredibly successful. We would like to express our gratitude to everyone involved for their participation and acknowledge the support of a number of high-profile scientists. The use of spectroscopy combined with machine learning in food quality and safety continues to represent a pivotal issue today, and it is for this reason that we believe that it is time for a second edition to be launched, which will hopefully prove to be as successful as the first.
Food quality and safety are attracted increasing attention due to improvements in living standards and the emergence of negative food incidents. There is increasing awareness of the utilization of reliable detection technologies to achieve food authentication and traceability. Spectroscopy can reveal the internal chemical properties of food; numerous techniques, including infrared spectroscopy, hyperspectral imaging, terahertz spectroscopy, and Raman spectroscopy, are currently being increasingly implemented to authenticate and trace a wide range of foods.
Spectroscopy combined with machine learning has been widely proven to represent an effective food analysis technology, including traditional algorithms (linear regression, support vector machine, logistic regression, random forest, and back propagation neural networks) and deep learning. This Special Issue will focus on food quality, safety, variety, and origin. It will provide the latest original research on food in relation to spectroscopy and machine learning.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Preprocessing methods for food spectral data;
- The extraction of spectral features related to food properties based on machine learning;
- The prediction of food internal quality, microorganisms, and harmful substances;
- The identification of adulteration and authenticity;
- The traceability of variety and origin;
- The establishment of food spectral fingerprints.
Prof. Dr. Zhengjun Qiu
Dr. Lei Zhou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- infrared spectroscopy
- hyperspectral imaging
- machine learning
- deep learning
- convolutional neural networks
- food quality
- food safety
- food authentication
- food traceability
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