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2 Development of the multivariate analysis<br />

pipeline for the detection of meat spoilage<br />

2.1 Introduction<br />

This chapter introduces a first prototype of the constructed multivariate analysis<br />

pipeline for the analysis of standalone heterogeneous data obtained by various<br />

analytical techniques. The pipeline was designed and implemented upon a single case<br />

study using samples of shelf life beef fillets stored in air at 0, 5, 10, 15 and 20°C. The<br />

first step of the analysis includes the application of unsupervised methods for the<br />

extraction of prominent features, dimensionality reduction and the investigation of<br />

underlying patterns in the data. The datasets are subsequently imported into<br />

multi-class machine learning models, which include PLS-DA and SVMs.<br />

Classification ensembles were implemented as a means of enhancing the<br />

generalisation performance of the individual models. Finally, thorough model<br />

validation and evaluation methods were applied to ensure that the performance<br />

metrics are representative of real-world application, as well as to provide an<br />

indication of the statistical significance of the results.<br />

2.2 Materials and Methods<br />

2.2.1 Case study 1: “Shelf life beef fillets stored in air at 0, 5, 10, 15<br />

and 20°C”<br />

2.2.1.1 Sample Preparation<br />

The first case study of this thesis investigates shelf life beef fillets stored in air at 0, 5,<br />

10, 15 and 20°C (Argyri, 2010). A detailed explanation of the experimental<br />

techniques and the methodology used in order to obtain the data for this case study<br />

can be found in Argyri (2010), Argyri et al. (2010) and Panagou et al. (2010).<br />

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