A machine using ultrasound and AI can gauge the fattiness of a tuna fish

Kawasaki, Japan – Seafood lovers know that fatty marbleing makes tuna shashimi and sushi so delicious, so for art, it is the level of fish fatines that are used to determine its quality and price.

Generally, several people evaluate how fat is the tuna by cutting the tail with a giant knife, an operation that takes about 60 seconds per fish.

But now a machine called Sonophai uses the ultrasound wave to work in 12 seconds, managed by a person without previous knowledge on how to engrave the fish.

The Japanese agency Fujitosu behind the technology invited journalists for Sonophai’s protest this week, which is a mixture of “Sono” to Fujitsu, and “AI,” or “Sound” for artificial intelligence. The name refers to its elements but it also means “the son of I”.

A conveyor belt transports the entire frozen tuna fish, transporting a machine to a machine in the form of about one meter (3 feet), which gives the ultrasound wave beam. Censors lift the waves to draw a zigzaging diagram on a screen to indicate the fatinase of the fish.

Fatty meat absorbs low sound waves than fat meat and sorts real data from AI “noise” or irregularities.

The beginning of the technology is Sonophai’s president, Heshi Ishida, who produces food-producing equipment, also leads Ishida Tech Co., it is safe, more sanitary and skilled.

“The taste of fatty fish is good, your tongue looks better and he is called ‘Toro’,” he said. “Demand abroad is increasing because Sushi culture is now praised around the world.”

There is a grading system for beef fat and expected odor, but Fujitsu is monitoring the AI ​​Hydeto Okada, which is new to determine the quality of the toon.

Sonophai uses the same technology as medical ultrasound scans where high-frequency audible sound waves are absorbed or bounced to create a video that is not visible as fetus inside the mother’s womb. Unlike CT scan or X-ray, it does not use radiation, which can damage the tissue.

Chris Edwards, a medical doctor and professor at Queensland University of Technology, who trained goldsmiths, or who trained healthcare professionals in ultrasound, used to see how ultrasound can be used to see a human liver fatinas associated with diabetes and other health problems.

“They can look at a fish and compare with the other and say ‘Oh, anyone who has got more fat than her,” ”he told the Associated Press in an interview.

However, Sonofai will not be near the Sushi chef around you.

Fish-processing outfits and phishing companies are probably buyers. The machine will be sold for about 30 million yen ($ 207,000) in June, first in Japan but will expand to the United States and other places. They will also work on future upgrades for tests for fresh, sight and other features of tuna and other fish varieties.

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Yuri Kazayma is on the thread: https://www.threds.net/@yurikageyama

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