Consumer demand for high-quality healthy food is increasing; therefore, meat processors
require the means toassess their products rapidly, accurately, and inexpensively. Traditional …

The main goal of this chapter was to review the state of the art in the recent advances in
sheep and goat meat products research. Research and innovation have been playing an …

Aims of the study were to evaluate the routine ultrasound scanning plus subjective muscle
scoring system for meat sheep in Austria in terms of (1) their ability to predict carcass quality …

Twenty Pelibuey ewes were used to assess the relationship between ultrasound
measurements (USM) and carcass traits. Animals were slaughtered, and the left half of each …

Since the first use in examination of soft tissue in 1950, the ultrasound technique has had an
enormous success as an excellent diagnostic tool for the medical field. As a consequence of …

In this chapter the use of real-time ultrasonography to predict in vivo carcass composition
and meat traits will be reviewed. The chapter begins by discussing background and …

This study aimed to investigate the performance of least‐squares support vector machines to
predict carcass characteristics in Tan sheep using noninvasive in vivo measurements. A …

The objectives of this experiment were to evaluate the accuracy of ultrasonography to
measure subcutaneous fat thickness (SFT) and LM traits (area, depth, and width) in live …

Ultrasonography was used as a noninvasive method for quantitative estimation of the
subcutaneous and abdominal adipose tissue depots in dairy cattle. The prediction model …

The objectives were to study the relationship between in vivo ultrasound measurements and
cold carcass measurements at 4 anatomical points along the backbone of lambs and to …