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Microplastics_SEM
Summary
Scientists developed a computer program that can automatically find and identify tiny plastic particles (called microplastics) in detailed microscope images. This new tool makes it much faster and more accurate to detect microplastics in things like food, water, and air samples. This matters because microplastics are everywhere in our environment and may affect human health, but until now it was very slow and difficult for researchers to study them properly.
Here are the datasets for the paper (Automatic quantification and classification of microplastics in scanning electron micrographs via deep learning) published the Science of the Total Environment. The complete training dataset of semantic segmentation and shape classification is in dataset1.zip. The dataset of instance segmentation is present in multiple forms in dataset2.zip. The experiment setting for each micrograph was recorded together with the original SEM micrographs and all ground-truth labels in the file dataset3.zip. Main results were saved in result.zip. Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153903 Code link: https://github.com/benjamin3344/Microplastics_Unet Updates on 2026-02-22: Pre-trained weights for models of different sizes (4*5 fold) are included in result_weights.zip. Any further cooperation can be addressed to Professor Jane Howe.