Due to the increasing consumption of food products and demand for food quality and safety, most food processing facilities in the United States utilize machines to automate their processes, such as cleaning, inspection and grading, packing, storing,...
As living standards have improved, consumer demand for high-quality dried abalone has increased. Traditional abalone grading is achieved through slice analysis (sampling analysis) combined with human experience. However, this method has several issue...
Corn silage is the main feed in the diet of dairy cows and other ruminant livestock. Silage corn feed is very susceptible to spoilage and corruption due to the influence of aerobic secondary fermentation during the silage process. At present, silage...
Core acquisition is essential to the success of the remanufacturing business. The value of sorting and grading cores into nominal-quality classes has been certified in industry and academia. In this paper, we investigate how many unsorted cores of un...
This study aimed to quantitatively evaluate the potential health effects of exposure to major air pollutants inside newly manufactured automobiles and to develop a grading system for automobile indoor air quality based on this assessment. To achieve...
Mango is a high-value agricultural commodity, and accurate and efficient appearance quality grading and defect inspection are critical for export-oriented markets. This study proposes a dual-pipeline deep learning framework for automated mango assess...
Background: Low-temperature stress significantly restricts maize germination, seedling growth and development, and yield formation. However, traditional methods of evaluating maize seedling quality are inefficient. This study established a method of...
Grading the quality of fresh cut flowers is an important practice in the flower industry. Based on the flower maturing status, a classification method based on deep learning and depth information was proposed for the grading of flower quality. Firstl...
To address the challenges of poor instance segmentation accuracy, real-time performance trade-offs, high miss rates, and imprecise edge localization in tomato grading and harvesting robots operating in complex scenarios (e.g., dense growth, occluded...
As a traditional edible and medicinal fungus in China, Oudemansiella raphanipes has high economic benefits. In order to achieve the automatic classification of Oudemansiella raphanipes into four quality levels using their image dataset, a quality gra...
Phalaenopsis orchids are one of Taiwan’s key floral export products, and maintaining consistent quality is crucial for international competitiveness. To improve production efficiency, many orchid farms outsource the early flask seedling stage t...
Laver (Pyropia spp.) is a major seaweed that is cultivated and consumed globally. Although quality standards for laver products have been established, traditional physicochemical analyses and sensory evaluations have notable drawbacks regarding rapid...
Urban river networks have the characteristics of medium and micro scales, complex water quality, rapid change, and time–space incoherence. Aiming to monitor the water quality accurately, it is necessary to extract suitable features and establish a un...
In commercial herbal markets, Polygoni Multiflori Radix (PMR, the tuberous roots of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb.), a commonly-used Chinese medicinal material, is divided into different grades based on morphological features of size and weight. While...
In this study, a deep learning-based system for apple defect detection and quality grading was developed, integrating various advanced image-processing technologies and machine learning algorithms to enhance the automation and accuracy of apple quali...
Cymbidium goeringii (Rchb. f.) is a traditional Chinese flower with highly valued biological, cultural, and artistic properties. However, the valuation of Rchb. f. mainly relies on subjective judgment, lacking a standardized digital evaluation and gr...
As a traditional delicacy in China, preserved eggs inevitably experience instances of substandard quality during the production process. Chinese preserved egg production facilities can only rely on experienced workers to select the preserved eggs. Ho...
This study proposes a vision-based framework for automated inspection and quality grading of beef steaks by integrating fat marbling distribution analysis and lean-meat color evaluation. In frozen beef products, surface frost often generates specular...
Citrus fruit size is a core quality attribute that determines commercial value and market acceptance. In postharvest processing, rapid, accurate, and non-destructive diameter estimation is an essential prerequisite for automated grading, yet existing...
Oudemansiella raphanipes is valued for its rich nutritional content and medicinal properties, but traditional manual grading methods are time-consuming and labor-intensive. To address this, deep learning techniques are employed to automate the gradin...
The dried rhizome of Atractylodes lancea (RAL) is a widely used traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Its quality evaluation and origin authentication have long relied on time-consuming chromatographic methods, which are poorly suited for rapid, on-sit...
Morchella is an edible mushroom with medical applciations. To explore the correlation between the texture indices of Morchella and to establish a sensory quality evaluation system, the texture quality characteristics of 214 Morchella germplasm resour...
Apples are one of the most widely planted fruits in the world, with an extremely high annual production. Several issues should be addressed to avoid the damaging of samples during the quality grading process of apples (e.g., the long detection period...
With the increasing demand for high-quality, healthy, and nutritious food, hairtails have good potential for development in both domestic and international markets. In particular, Zhoushan hairtail is known as one of the best-tasting hairtail in the...
I define information from a philosophical perspective as a category that indicates the presence of indirect existence, which is a self-display by material entities (with direct existence) of the status and trajectory of that existence. In this paper,...
This study assesses the quality of pure maple syrup sold online to consumers. It aims to determine how likely consumers are to receive syrup that meets legal grading standards. Grade A clarity, color, density, and flavor tests were performed using vi...
In the design and manufacturing of pressure vessels, the quality of welded joints and their operational safety are critical considerations. Weld quality classification is closely linked to its impact on fatigue performance. In this study, aluminum al...
The Entropy Weight Method (EWM) is a prevalent and objective technique for assigning weights in water quality assessment. However, engineering practice has shown that distortion phenomena occur in water quality assessment results based on the EWM. Th...
Tianshanhong (TSH), black tea products originating from the Ningde Tianshan Mountain, has gained significant recognition in the market. However, the chemical characteristics contributing to the flavor of TSH have not yet been reported. To systematica...
This paper describes a holistic quality model (HQM) and assessment to support decision-making processes in construction. A graded concrete slab serves as an example to illustrate how to consider technical, environmental, and social quality criteria a...
Understanding water quality is crucial for environmental management and policy formulation. However, existing methods for assessing water quality are often unable to fully integrate with multi-source remote sensing data. This study introduces a metho...
The eating quality evaluation of rice is raising further concerns among researchers and consumers. This research is aimed to apply lipidomics in determining the distinction between different grades of indica rice and establishing effective models for...
Progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) for WHO grade 2 and 3 intracranial meningiomas are poorly described, and long-term results and data evaluating the routine use of supplementary fractionated radiotherapy (RT) or stereotactic r...
Conventional methods for assessing the quality of components mass produced using injection molding are expensive and time-consuming or involve imprecise statistical process control parameters. A suitable alternative would be to employ machine learnin...
Water quality grade is an intuitive element for people to understand the condition of water quality. However, in situ water quality grade measurements are often labor intensive, which makes measurement over large areas very costly and laborious. In r...
Background and Objectives: Eustachian tube (ET) dysfunction links adenoidal disease to persistent middle ear dysfunction in children, yet the independent contribution of ET orifice obstruction grade to audiological outcomes and health-related quality...
The appearance quality of fruits affects consumers’ judgment of their value, and grading the quality of fruits is an effective means to improve their added value. The purpose of this study is to transform the grading of pear appearance quality...
The simultaneous diagnosis of diseases and evaluation of age quality grades in tea leaves are critical for precision agriculture and the economic valuation of tea products. Although deep learning has shown promise in agricultural vision tasks, curren...
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With the increasing demands of consumers for product grade, the C2B model of high-grade e-commerce emerges as required. In order to solve the problem of coordination and cooperation between e-commerce platforms and manufacturers, and to further devel...
Rose tea is a type of flower tea in China’s reprocessed tea category, which is divided into seven grades, including super flower, primary flower, flower bud, flower heart, yellow flower, scattered flower, and waste flower. Grading rose tea into...
Fat deposition is important to carcass value and some palatability characteristics. Carcasses with higher USDA quality grades produce more value for producers and processors in the US system and are more likely to have greater eating satisfaction. Us...
The grading of beef appearance quality is crucial for standardizing market circulation and promoting the upgrading of the beef cattle industry. China’s current beef quality grading system, which relies primarily on human sensory-based visual as...
Atractylodes macrocephala Rhizoma (AMR) is a frequently used medicinal herb for treating gastrointestinal disorders, with its quality influenced by factors such as origin and cultivation duration. Traditional quality control methods for AMR are time-...
Ginseng is an important medicinal plant widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional methods for evaluating the visual quality of ginseng have limitations. This study presents a new method for grading ginseng’s appearance quality us...
This study aims to construct a graded evaluation method for the construction quality of Highway Prefabricated Beam Bridges, in order to support refined quality control beyond the traditional “qualified/unqualified” judgment. Existing eval...
The prices of different quality river crabs on the market can vary several times. Therefore, the internal quality identification and accurate sorting of crabs are particularly important for improving the economic benefits of the industry. Using exist...
Ready-made Chinese herbal medicine (RMCHM) is one of the most common types of synergistic herbal medicine used worldwide. It is based on composite herbal formulae (CHF), which makes quality control of this kind of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) d...
Assessing plum quality solely based on the external appearance of the peel may lead to inaccurate results. This paper proposes a multimodal data fusion technique based on deep learning, which evaluates plum quality by fusing color image data and spec...
Peaches are a popular fruit appreciated by consumers due to their eating quality. Quality evaluation of peaches is important for their processing, inventory control, and marketing. Eleven quality indicators (shape index, volume, mass, density, firmne...
Purpose: To assess oncological outcomes, toxicities, quality of life (QoL) and sexual health (SH) of low-grade glioma (LGG) patients treated with pencil-beam scanning proton therapy (PBS-PT). Material and methods: We retrospectively analyzed 89 patie...
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