IMAGE ANALYSIS/CONSUMER
UNDERSTANDING
Although high-quality images contain a huge amount of information about the
microstructure, food researchers like to extract quantitative data from the images
that can be correlated with relevant physical characteristics of the products. This
will offer tools to modify the production process or composition to obtain the
required structure. Combined observation of the microstructure, extraction of quantitative
data, and modeling of the microstructure based on characteristics of the
structuring elements should point to the optimal product. 2-D image analysis is a
well developed technique to extract quantitative data. The power of today’s computer