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Machine vision system for online inspection of freshly slaughtered chickens

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A machine vision system was developed and evaluated for the automation of online inspection to differentiate freshly slaughtered wholesome chickens from systemically diseased chickens. The system consisted of an electron-multiplying charge-coupled-device (EMCCD) camera used with an imaging spectrograph and controlled by a computer to obtain line-scan images quickly on a chicken processing line of a commercial poultry plant. The system scanned chicken carcasses on an eviscerating line operating at a speed of 140 chickens per minute. An algorithm was implemented in the system to automatically recognize individual carcasses entering and exiting the field of view, to locate the region of interest (ROI) of each chicken, to extract useful spectra from the ROI as inputs to the differentiation method, and to determine the condition for each carcass as being wholesome or systemically diseased. The system can acquire either hyperspectral or multispectral images without any cross-system calibration. The essential spectral features were selected from hyperspectral images of chicken samples. The differentiation of chickens on the processing line was then carried out using multispectral imaging. The high accuracy obtained from the evaluation results showed that the machine vision system can be applied successfully to automatic online inspection for chicken processing.

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  1. Food Safety Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, 20705, USA

    Chun-Chieh Yang, Kuanglin Chao & Moon S. Kim

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Yang, CC., Chao, K. & Kim, M.S. Machine vision system for online inspection of freshly slaughtered chickens. Sens. & Instrumen. Food Qual. 3, 70–80 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11694-008-9067-8

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