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Aflatoxin-B1 contamination in maize is a major food safety issue across the world. Conventional detection technique of toxins requires highly skilled technicians and is time-consuming. Application of appropriate chemometrics along with hyperspectral imaging (HSI) can identify aflatoxin-B1 infected maize kernels. Present study was undertaken to classify 240 maize kernels inoculated with six different concentrations (25, 40, 70, 200, 300 and 500 ppb) of aflatoxin-B1 by using Vis–NIR HSI. The reflectance spectral data were pre-processed (multiplicative scatter correction (MSC), standard normal variate (SNV), Savitsky–Golay smoothing and their combinations) and classified using partial least square discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) and k-nearest neighbour (k-NN). PLS model was also developed to predict the concentration of aflatoxin-B1in naturally contaminated maize kernels inoculated with Aspergillus flavus. The potential wavelength (508 nm) was selected based on principal component analysis (PCA) loadings to distinguish between sterile and infected maize kernels. PCA score plots revealed a distinct separation of low contaminated samples (25, 40 and 70 ppb) from highly contaminated samples (200, 300 and 500 ppb) without any overlapping of data. The maximum classification accuracy of 94.7% was obtained using PLS-DA with SNV pre-processed data. Across all the combinations of pre-processing and classification models, the best efficiency (98.2%) was exhibited by k-NN model with raw data. The developed PLS model depicted good prediction accuracy (\(R_{CV}^{2}\) = 0.820, SECV = 79.425, RPDCV = 2.382) during Venetian-blinds cross-validation. The results of pixel-wise classification (k-NN) and concentration distribution maps (PLS with raw spectra) were quite close to the result obtained by reference method (HPLC analysis) of aflatoxin-B1 detection.
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Chakraborty, S.K., Mahanti, N.K., Mansuri, S.M. et al. Non-destructive classification and prediction of aflatoxin-B1 concentration in maize kernels using Vis–NIR (400–1000 nm) hyperspectral imaging. J Food Sci Technol 58, 437–450 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13197-020-04552-w
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