Research Article

Robust and Automated Internal Quality Grading of a Chinese Green Tea (Longjing) by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Chemometrics

Table 2

Classification results of three grades of Longjing with different preprocessing methods.

ObjectsPreprocessingSensitivitySpecificity

Raw (20a)1.000 (161/161b)0.967 (726/751c)
Grade ISmoothing (20)0.994 (160/161)0.955 (717/751)
D2 (15)0.975 (157/161)0.963 (723/751)
SNV (20)1.000 (161/161)0.979 (735/751)
Raw (20)0.938 (273/291)0.942 (585/621)
Grade IISmoothing (20)0.914 (266/291)0.931 (578/621)
D2 (15)0.924 (269/291)0.957 (594/621)
SNV (20)0.955 (278/291)0.952 (591/621)
Raw (20)0.907 (417/460)1.000 (452/452)
Grade IIISmoothing (19)0.889 (409/460)1.000 (452/452)
D2 (15)0.933 (429/460)0.996 (450/452)
SNV (20)0.924 (425/460)0.996 (450/452)

number of PLSDA components used to distinguish one grade from the other two grades.
bTP/(TP + FN).
cTN/(TN + FP).