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The amount and chemical state of myoglobin are often relevant to meat color, which is one of the important characteristics of meat freshness and wholesomeness. To precisely determine OxyMb and MetMb contents in mutton, the feasibility of optimization detection technology of spectral image fusion was explored. Three methods were used to select characteristic wavelengths while textural features of muscle tissue were derived. Compared among all models, LSSVM models coupled with spectra and textural parameters all performed better than these PLSR models. The iVISSA-COR-LSSVM model for OxyMb prediction achieved a good performance of R2 C = 0.9525, RMSEC = 2.2955, R2 P = 0.8956, and RMSEP = 3.0036. The more effective prediction performances emerged from VCPA-IRIV-COR-LSSVM model with R2 C = 0.8809, RMSEC = 2.2009, R2 P = 0.8353, and RMSEP = 3.2096 for MetMb. In final, the pseudo color maps of OxyMb and MetMb distribution were generated. This study demonstrated that the data fusion method furnishes a new approach to rapidly evaluate myoglobin content. • Better results were obtained by iVISSA and VCPA-IRIV identified wavebands. • Data fusion was used for enhancing hyperspectral prediction performance of myoglobin value. • LSSVM models built for predicting OxyMb and MetMb contents showed good results. • Distribution maps of OxyMb and MetMb values were visualized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The detection of meat texture is of great value because it is the key factor that drives consumer purchasing decisions. In this study, a hyperspectral imaging (HSI) system was utilized to determine the texture parameters of Tan mutton. In order to observe the influence of mutton spectra during different refrigeration periods for modeling, hyperspectral images of the Tan mutton samples were collected in the 900–1700 nm spectral range, and the correction models of Tan mutton texture parameters were established. The four machine learning algorithms, such as partial least squares regression (PLSR), least squares support vector machine (LSSVM), random forest (RF), and decision trees (DT), were developed to establish the spectral models based on the characteristic bands selected by different extraction strategies including interval variable iterative space shrinkage approach (iVISSA), competitive adaptive reweighted sampling (CARS), successive projection algorithm (SPA) and variable combination population analysis (VCPA). The results showed that the LSSVM-iVISSA-CARS models exhibited excellent performance in predicting hardness and gumminess with root-mean-square errors (RMSEP) of 5.259 and 3.051 as well as the coefficient of determination for the prediction data set (R p 2) of 0.986 and 0.984 respectively. Good performances were achieved with R p 2 of 0.987 and RMSEP of 4.970 with the LSSVM-iVISSA-SPA model for chewiness, respectively. Therefore, HSI has potential for the evaluation and prediction of texture parameters in Tan mutton. • Spectra at 900–1700 nm was applied for detecting texture parameters of Tan mutton. • The OSC and MC methods were both utilized to preprocess X-block and Y-block. • Informative wavelengths were selected using iVISSV-CARS and iVISSV-SPA approaches. • The LSSVM model yielded the best result in predicting hardness, gumminess and chewiness of Tan mutton. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]