Applications of computer vision systems for meat safety assurance in abattoirs: A systematic review

Introduction in 2017–2019 of the new EU legislation on official controls food production allowed use computer vision systems (CVSs) as complementary tools meat inspection bovines, pigs and poultry. A systematic literature review was performed to identify analyse relevant articles reporting performances CVSs used abattoirs for ante- post-mortem veterinary safety assurance, including detecting carcass/organ contamination lesions. In this review, 62 were identified analysed. There 35 CVS performance detection lesions 27 carcass contamination. broiler chicken, pig bovine assurance reported 53, 5 4 articles, respectively. Not all developed validated, only three results from real-time evaluation an abattoir vs veterinarian. Most measures (i.e., sensitivity specificity) >80%. high specificity a low number false positives) is importance business operator order minimise waste, whereas negatives) required wholesome safe meat. At present, existing overall chicken carcasses organs demonstrate very sensitivities but suboptimal specificities, indicating need further development optimisation.