Classification of cow milk using artificial neural network developed from the spectral data of single- and three-detector spectrophotometers.

Journal: Food chemistry
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Abstract

Spectra data from two instruments (UV-Vis/NIR and FT-NIR) consisting of three and one detectors, respectively, were employed in order to discriminate the geographical origin of milk as a way to detect adulteration. Initially, principal component analysis (PCA) was used to see if clusters of milk from different origins are formed. Separation between samples of different origins were not observed with PCA, hence, feed-forward multi-layer perceptron artificial neural network (MLP-ANN) models were designed. ANN models were developed by changing the number of input variables and the best models were chosen based on high values of generalized R-square and entropy R-square, as well as small values of root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute deviation (Mean Abs. Dev), and -loglikelihood while considering 100% classification rate. Based on the results, whether the spectra data was collected from a single or three detector instrument the same clustering was observed based on geographical origin.

Authors

  • Shima Behkami
    Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G2W1, Canada; Department of Chemistry, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia. Electronic address: behkamis@yahoo.com.
  • Sharifuddin M Zain
    Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G2W1, Canada. Electronic address: smzain@um.edu.my.
  • Mehrdad Gholami
    Department of Chemistry, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, P.O. Box 465, Marvdasht, Iran.
  • Mohd Fared Abdul Khir
    Photonics R&D, Mimos Berhad, Technology Park Malaysia, 57000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Electronic address: mfared@mimos.my.