Suchendra M. Bhandarkar

1. Introduction Ensuring the safety and quality of poultry products is of high importance in the poultry industry, as contamination with foreign materials (FMs) poses severe health risks to consumers and can lead to high economic losses to the industry due to product recalls [1]. Non-biological FMs, such as rubber, plastic, and metal fragments, are common contaminants introduced inadvertently during the deboning, trimming, portioning, and packaging processes in poultry processing plants [2,3].

3.3. Blob-Level Detection Performance The rationale behind the blob-detection analysis is that even if every pixel of an FM is not accurately identified, detecting a significant portion of the FM can still enable flagging it as an FM. The performance of the blob detection is summarized in Table 3. Most models exhibited similar scores for both the JI and ODACC due to the absence of false positives.