Please cite this article as: Costa, C., Antonucci, F., Boglione, C., Menesatti, P., Vandeputte, M., Chatain, B., Automated sorting for size, sex and skeletal anomalies of cultured seabass using external shape analysis, Aquacultural Engineering (2010Engineering ( ), doi:10.1016Engineering ( /j.aquaeng.2012 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.Page 1 of 34 A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t Highlights > Tools for on-line sorting of sea bass based on size, sex and abnormalities was developed. > Tools are based on image analysis and utilizing outline morphometry. > These analyses are combined with the multivariate techniques. > For the size estimation the regression efficiency resulted equal to 0.9772. > The discrimination efficiency for sex and malformation estimation was equal to 82.05% and 88.21% respectively.
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AbstractIn aquaculture, automation of fish processing by computer vision could reduce operating costs, improving product quality and profit. Currently fish are mechanically sorted by size, but market constraints require that externally malformed fish be removed as well.Additionally fish farmers screen for sex, in order to exploit the higher growth potential of females. The aim of this study was the development of methodological tools applicable to Squares Discriminant Analysis models used to select sex and malformed fish also returned high discrimination efficiencies (82.05% and 88.21%, respectively). The implementation of a similar approach within an on-line sorting machine would allow for real-time live fish processing.