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Similar to FTIR, the PLS-DA ensembles for the e-nose data increase the rates of fresh<br />

and spoiled samples, while the semi-fresh accuracies are equal to 0%. Even though<br />

linear and nonlinear SVMs generate higher percentages of correctly classified<br />

samples ( ), PLS-DA demonstrates better classification accuracies for the fresh<br />

samples compared to the SVMs. Finally, in the case of linear and nonlinear (RBF)<br />

SVMs, both fresh and semi-fresh accuracies significantly decrease, while the<br />

prediction rates of the majority class approximate 100%.<br />

To summarise the previous observations, as with raw data, the highest per-class<br />

accuracies for the semi-fresh samples are recorded in the case of FTIR data when<br />

SVMs are applied. In addition, the high overall accuracies of HPLC are justified by<br />

the nearly perfect class predictions of fresh and spoiled samples, especially for the<br />

linear classifiers (PLS-DA and SVMs). Finally, based on the e-nose class predictions<br />

it is obvious that the implemented classifiers have no discriminative power to<br />

correctly classify the semi-fresh samples; it appears that the boundaries of both the<br />

linear and nonlinear classifiers are dominated by the majority class, thus resulting in<br />

outstanding class predictions for the spoiled samples.<br />

According to Section 4.3.2.1, it is obvious that e-nose is a dominant technique that<br />

strongly influences the outcome of the integration and analysis process. In the case of<br />

GPA, the class accuracies from the pairwise fusion of either FTIR or HPLC with<br />

e-nose verify this hypothesis. Based on Figure 4-10, the high fresh and semi-fresh<br />

accuracies obtained by standalone FTIR and HPLC decrease once the integration is<br />

performed, for all the different types of classifiers. Furthermore, the integrated<br />

datasets present at least 80% in the class predictions of spoiled samples. This is to be<br />

expected, not only because spoiled samples constitute the majority class, but also<br />

because the standalone e-nose data most often resulted in high percentages of<br />

correctly classified spoiled samples. For the integrated dataset of FTIR and HPLC, the<br />

overall accuracies and class predictions of both linear and nonlinear models<br />

demonstrate similar results. After the integration, the spoiled accuracies increase for<br />

all three classifiers, while the performance of fresh samples drops for the linear<br />

models (PLS-DA and linear SVMs). The most noteworthy improvement from<br />

standalone to integrated datasets for all individual classes (sensory scores) was<br />

documented for the RBF SVMs. Finally, in the integration of all three datasets, it<br />

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