Real-time monitoring the color changes of large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea) fillets based on hyperspectral imaging empowered with artificial intelligence

Vis-NIR hyperspectral imaging (HSI) system combined with artificial neural networks was investigated for the first time to monitor color changes of large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea) fillets during low-temperature storage. Feed-forward neural networks (FNN) empowered with the leaky rectified linear unit (Leaky-Relu) have been developed as a non-linear quantitative analysis model. It presented accurate predictive power for color changes based on optimal spectra (with R2P of 0.908, 0.915, and 0.977; and RMSEP of 1.062, 3.315, and 0.082 for L*, a*, and b*, respectively). In final, the simplified FNN-Leaky-Relu model (S-FNN-L) was utilized to visualize the distribution maps of color parameters in the fillets. The results demonstrated the feasibility of HSI could replace the traditional colorimeter to determine the spatial distribution in the color measurement of fish fillets with a rapid and non-invasive technique.