Applying knowledge-based expert system to meat grading

The author presents an ongoing project, which has the immediate objective of developing a knowledge-based expert system to assist meat graders and an ultimate objective of automating the meat grading process through applications of image processing, pattern recognition, and expert systems. A voice-input, knowledge-based system for grading carcass beef has been developed and tested. The meat grader provides input for the system in the form of carcass characteristics by speaking into a microphone headset. on reception of the characteristics of the carcass, the knowledge-based system reasons through the production rules to reach quality and yield grades for the carcass.<
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