Determination of Soluble Solid Content in Strawberry Using Hyperspectral Imaging Combined with Feature Extraction Methods

Abstract

Hyperspectral imaging combined with feature extraction methods were applied to determine soluble sugar content (SSC) in mature and scatheless strawberry. Hyperspectral images of 154 strawberries covering the spectral range of 874-1,734 nm were captured and the spectral data were extracted from the hyperspectral images, and the spectra of 941~1,612 nm were preprocessed by moving average (MA). Nineteen samples were defined as outliers by the residual method, and the remaining 135 samples were divided into the calibration set (n = 90) and the prediction set (n = 45). Successive projections algorithm (SPA), genetic algorithm partial least squares (GAPLS) combined with SPA, weighted regression coefficient (Bw) and competitive adaptive reweighted sampling (CARS) were applied to select 14, 17, 24 and 25 effective wavelengths, respectively. Principal component analysis (PCA) and wavelet transform (WT) were applied to extract feature information with 20 and 58 features, respectively. PLS models were built based on the full spectra, the effective wavelengths and the features, respectively. All PLS models obtained good results. PLS models using full-spectra and features extracted by WT obtained the best results with correlation coefficient of calibration (r(c)) and correlation coefficient of prediction (r(p)) over 0.9. The overall results indicated that hyperspectral imaging combined with feature extraction methods could be used for detection of SSC in strawberry.