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SynthesisToxins2024

Machine Learning Applied to the Detection of Mycotoxin in Food: A Systematic Review.

Alan Inglis, Andrew C Parnell, Natarajan Subramani, Fiona M Doohan

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Synthesis in Toxins, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Alan InglisHamilton Institute, Eolas Building, Maynooth University, W23 F2H6 Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-1151-6657
Andrew C ParnellHamilton Institute, Eolas Building, Maynooth University, W23 F2H6 Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0001-7956-7939
Natarajan SubramaniSchool of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, D04 C1P1 Dublin, Ireland.
Fiona M DoohanSchool of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, D04 C1P1 Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-1953-6070

Funding

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) and The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) 2021R460SFI Centre for Research Training in Foundations of Data Science 18/CRT/6049SFI Research Centre award 12/RC/2289\_P2
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mycotoxins, toxic secondary metabolites produced by certain fungi, pose significant threats to global food safety and public health. These compounds can contaminate a variety of crops, leading to economic losses and health risks to both humans and animals. Traditional lab analysis methods for mycotoxin detection can be time-consuming and may not always be suitable for large-scale screenings. However, in recent years, machine learning (ML) methods have gained popularity for use in the detection of mycotoxins and in the food safety industry in general due to their accurate and timely predictions. We provide a systematic review on some of the recent ML applications for detecting/predicting the presence of mycotoxin on a variety of food ingredients, highlighting their advantages, challenges, and potential for future advancements. We address the need for reproducibility and transparency in ML research through open access to data and code. An observation from our findings is the frequent lack of detailed reporting on hyperparameters in many studies and a lack of open source code, which raises concerns about the reproducibility and optimisation of the ML models used. The findings reveal that while the majority of studies predominantly utilised neural networks for mycotoxin detection, there was a notable diversity in the types of neural network architectures employed, with convolutional neural networks being the most popular.

Indexed as

Food ContaminationMachine LearningMycotoxinsAnimalsHumansNeural Networks, ComputerMycotoxinsfood safetymachine learningmycotoxinpredictive modelsystematic review

Identifiers

PMID38922162
PMCPMC11209146

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