Table 1.
Number of sirloin cross-section images provided in this study.
Fig 1.
Summary of marbling image data analysis process.
Fig 2.
The recognized marbling particles of the BMS 9 coarse marbling image (left) and the fine marbling image (right).
Table 2.
List of marbling fineness index candidates.
Fig 3.
Image partitioning illustration for F7 marbling fineness index estimation.
Fig 4.
Boxplots for comparison between BMS 9 coarse marbling group and fine marbling group of F7 marbling fineness index by step sizes.
Fig 5.
Significance level of the separation of coarse and fine BMS-9 beef images using F7 index at step sizes from 5 to 95 tiles per image axis.
Fig 6.
Distribution of F7 marbling fineness index at step size = 70 of 4 BMS grades.
Table 3.
Statistics and ANOVA results of F7 marbling fineness index at step size = 70 between groups of 4 grades.