Research on nondestructive detection of pine nut quality based on terahertz imaging

Terahertz imaging for non-invasive classification of healthy and cimiciato-infected hazelnuts

“…These results offer a fast and easy method to predict if a whole nut is healthy or cimiciato-infected. Other recent approaches have obtained similar results on pine nuts or walnuts [ [47] , [48] , [49] ], for example, but in all these cases, the system consists of a point-wise acquisition of raster-scanned images followed by a complicated image processing analysis that also involves the use of artificial intelligence techniques. This means that the setup is expensive and bulky, the acquisition is slow and data processing requires large computational resources.…”