Many scientific papers have been written concerning gas sensors for different sensor
applications using several sensing principles. This review focuses on sensors and sensor …

Electronic tongue systems are multisensor devices dedicated to automatic analysis of
complicated composition samples and to the recognition of their characteristic properties …

Abstract The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) algorithm has attracted an ever increasing amount
of interest among researches and practitioners in a wide variety of elds. The SOM and a …

The field of electronic noses, electronic instruments capable of mimicking the human
olfactory system, has developed rapidly in the past ten years. There are now at least 25 …

Quantitative analysis of gases, by means of semiconductor sensor arrays and pattern-
recognition techniques such as artificial neural networks, has been the goal of a great deal …

The human olfactory system is still regarded as the most important 'analytical instrument'for
the assurance of odour quality in many industries, such as food and drinks. Until recently …

An electronic nose based system, which employs an array of inexpensive commercial tin-
oxide odour sensors, has been used to analyse the state of ripeness of bananas. Readings …

Probabilistic neural networks (PNN), learning vector quantization (LVQ) neural networks,
back-propagation artificial neural networks (BP-ANN), soft independent modeling of class …

Food flavor, appearance, and texture are the sensory properties that influence food
acceptance, and among these, flavor is usually the decisive factor for the choice of a …

Electronic noses are a new class of analytical instruments anticipated to have an impact in
many areas. They are based around an array of sensors each having a partial specificity …