Towards a Feasible and Robust Technique for Non-invasive Food Analysis

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Issue		BIO Web Conf. Volume 195, 2025 2025 9^th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics (ICBEB 2025)


Article Number		02001
Number of page(s)		10
Section		Biomedical Imaging, Modeling and Visualization Technologies
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/202519502001
Published online		14 November 2025

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