Background:An e-nose or an e-tongue is a group of gas sensors or chemical sensors that simulate human nose or human tongue.Both e-nose and e-tongue have showngreat promise and utility in improving assessments of food ...Background:An e-nose or an e-tongue is a group of gas sensors or chemical sensors that simulate human nose or human tongue.Both e-nose and e-tongue have showngreat promise and utility in improving assessments of food quality characteristics compared with traditional detection methods.Scope and approach:This review summarizes the application of e-nose and e-tongue in determining the quality-related properties of foods.The working principles,applications,and limitations of the sensors employed by electronic noses and electronic tongueswere introduced and compared.Widelyemployed pattern recognition algorithms,including artificial neural network(ANN),convolutional neural network(CNN),principal component analysis(PCA),partial least square regression(PLS),and support vector machine(SVM),were introduced and compared in this review.Key findings and conclusions:Overall,e-nose or e-tongue combining pattern recognition algorithms are very powerful analytical tools,which are relatively low-cost,rapid,and accurate.E-nose and e-tongue are also suitable for both in-line and off-line measurements,which are very useful in monitoring food processing and detecting the end product quality.The user of e-nose and e-tongue need to strictly control sample preparation,sampling,and data processing.展开更多
文摘Background:An e-nose or an e-tongue is a group of gas sensors or chemical sensors that simulate human nose or human tongue.Both e-nose and e-tongue have showngreat promise and utility in improving assessments of food quality characteristics compared with traditional detection methods.Scope and approach:This review summarizes the application of e-nose and e-tongue in determining the quality-related properties of foods.The working principles,applications,and limitations of the sensors employed by electronic noses and electronic tongueswere introduced and compared.Widelyemployed pattern recognition algorithms,including artificial neural network(ANN),convolutional neural network(CNN),principal component analysis(PCA),partial least square regression(PLS),and support vector machine(SVM),were introduced and compared in this review.Key findings and conclusions:Overall,e-nose or e-tongue combining pattern recognition algorithms are very powerful analytical tools,which are relatively low-cost,rapid,and accurate.E-nose and e-tongue are also suitable for both in-line and off-line measurements,which are very useful in monitoring food processing and detecting the end product quality.The user of e-nose and e-tongue need to strictly control sample preparation,sampling,and data processing.