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classification models since they produced consistently higher overall accuracies<br />

( ) than PLS-DA. Among the analytical techniques, HPLC proved to be the most<br />

diagnostic technique for the assessment of meat freshness, with classification<br />

accuracies around 80%. On the contrary, e-nose did not demonstrate any<br />

discriminative information, and its results proved to be statistically non-significant.<br />

Thus, we can conclude that the provided HPLC data contained abundances of several<br />

specific chemical compounds associated with and denoting spoilage. Conversely, the<br />

FTIR, Raman and e-nose data were the measurements of raw sensors with no prior<br />

feature selection or mapping to specific compounds. At a per-class level, the semifresh<br />

samples were consistently difficult to classify, whether they constituted the<br />

majority or minority class. Furthermore, in the majority of cases, CPCA produced<br />

higher overall and per-class accuracies ( ) than GPA. For case study 4, the<br />

obtained by CPCA managed to exceed not only the outcome of GPA but also the<br />

overall accuracy recorded by standalone HPLC, equal to 80%. This proves that the<br />

comprehensive fusion of valuable information from complementary analytical<br />

techniques may indeed result in greater performance. This observation proves that the<br />

fusion of the most discriminative information from complementary analytical<br />

techniques may indeed result in greater classification performance.<br />

In this research, in addition to the implementation of the analysis pipeline, great<br />

importance was also given in the development of powerful visualisation techniques as<br />

a means of enhancing the interpretability of the obtained results. Chapter 6 highlights<br />

the necessity for designing informative yet also aesthetically pleasing graphs. The<br />

graphical methods and web technologies presented in the chapter were used to<br />

construct the graphs throughout the thesis, demonstrate the outcome of the various<br />

analyses. The generated graphs, ranging from high-quality static images to<br />

reproducible reports and interactive web-based plots, proved to be more efficient as<br />

means of data representation than other traditional visualisation methods.<br />

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