Non-destructive seed detection in mandarins: Comparison of automatic threshold methods in FLASH and COMSPIRA MRIs

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 189-198

  Barreiro, P ^a   Zheng, C ^b   Sun, Da Wen ^b   Hernandez Sanchez N ^c   Perez Sanchez J M ^c   Ruiz Cabello, J ^c  

^a Electrotechnical Section   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Citrus; Classification; Fruit; Image analysis; Internal quality

Indexed keywords

CITRUS;

EID: 37149011175     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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