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Detection of Microplastics Using Machine Learning

2019 30 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Zenon Chaczko, Peter Wajs-Chaczko, David Tien, Yousef Haidar

Summary

Researchers reviewed and demonstrated machine learning approaches for detecting and classifying microplastics in environmental samples, finding that automated image analysis and spectral classification methods can improve the speed and accuracy of microplastic monitoring compared to manual methods.

Body Systems

Monitoring the presence of micro-plastics in human and animal habitats is fast becoming an important research theme due to a need to preserve healthy ecosystems. Microplastics pollute the environment and can represent a serious threat for biological organisms including the human body, as they can be inadvertently consumed through the food chain. To perceive and understand the level of microplastics pollution threats in the environment there is a need to design and develop reliable methodologies and tools that can detect and classify the different types of the microplastics. This paper presents results of our work related to exploration of methods and techniques useful for detecting suspicious objects in their respective ecosystem captured in hyperspectral images and then classifying these objects with the use of Neural Networks technique.

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