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Image Analysis of Representative Food Structures: Application of the Bootstrap Method

Journal

JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE
Volume 74, Issue 6, Pages R65-R72

Publisher

WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3841.2009.01220.x

Keywords

image analysis; microscopy; microstructure; representative elementary area; sampling; size distribution

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  1. CONICYT

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Images (for example, photomicrographs) are routinely used as qualitative evidence of the microstructure of foods. In quantitative image analysis it is important to estimate the area (or volume) to be sampled, the field of view, and the resolution. The bootstrap method is proposed to estimate the size of the sampling area as a function of the coefficient of variation (CVBn) and standard error (SEBn) of the bootstrap taking sub-areas of different sizes. The bootstrap method was applied to simulated and real structures (apple tissue). For simulated structures, 10 computer-generated images were constructed containing 225 black circles (elements) and different coefficient of variation (CVimage). For apple tissue, 8 images of apple tissue containing cellular cavities with different CVimage were analyzed. Results confirmed that for simulated and real structures, increasing the size of the sampling area decreased the CVBn and SEBn. Furthermore, there was a linear relationship between the CVimage and CVBn. For example, to obtain a CVBn = 0.10 in an image with CVimage = 0.60, a sampling area of 400 x 400 pixels (11% of whole image) was required, whereas if CVimage = 1.46, a sampling area of 1000 x 100 pixels (69% of whole image) became necessary. This suggests that a large-size dispersion of element sizes in an image requires increasingly larger sampling areas or a larger number of images.

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