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5.5 Conclusion<br />

In order to verify the generalisation ability of the implemented multivariate analysis<br />

pipeline, the constructed statistical tools were tested upon three new individual<br />

real-world case studies featuring different types of data (beef fillets, minced beef,<br />

pork), which have been analysed using a variety of instruments (FTIR, HPLC, Raman<br />

and e-nose) under different temperatures and packaging. By analysing the new case<br />

studies, we were able to show that significant results can be obtained on further<br />

datasets. In addition, by a direct comparison of their results, some noteworthy<br />

conclusions were drawn.<br />

HPLC proved to be the best instrumental technique for the chosen application of<br />

assessing meat freshness. Standalone HPLC data, both prior and after the application<br />

of PCA, consistently demonstrated the highest percentages of correctly classified<br />

samples (%CC). Thus, we can conclude that the provided HPLC data contained<br />

abundances of several specific chemical compounds associated with and denoting<br />

spoilage. Conversely, the FTIR, Raman and e-nose data were the measurements of<br />

raw sensors with no prior feature selection or mapping to specific compounds. Also, it<br />

is obvious that the HPLC data present higher classification accuracies for kernelbased<br />

(RBF) SVMs. On the contrary, the overall accuracies of the simple<br />

spectroscopic data by FTIR are clearly profiting by the application of linear<br />

classifiers, and especially by the application of traditional chemometric methods such<br />

as PLS-DA. In this instance, the nonlinear mapping by RBF SVMs has been found<br />

unfit. Finally, the e-nose data did not demonstrate any discriminative information, and<br />

its classification results proved to be statistically non-significant.<br />

As far as the integrated datasets are concerned, CPCA was consistently found to be a<br />

better data fusion technique than GPA. More specifically, CPCA clearly improves the<br />

outcome of the integration by combining the strongest features of the initial datasets,<br />

while GPA appears to be dominated by the weakest experimental technique.<br />

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