Analysis and classification of commercial ham slice images using directional fractal dimension features

Meat Science

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 313-320

  Mendoza, Fernando ^a   Valous, Nektarios A ^a   Allen, Paul ^b   Kenny, Tony A ^b   Ward, Paddy ^b   Sun, Da Wen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ASHTOWN FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Colour image texture; Directional fractal dimensions; Ham characterization; Ham classification; Ham slices; Image variogram; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949089572     PISSN: 03091740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2008.08.009     Document Type: Article

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