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Combating marine plastic litter and microplastics: an assessment of the effectiveness of relevant international, regional and subregional governance strategies and approaches
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This study used machine learning algorithms to classify microplastic particles by polymer type from hyperspectral imaging data, aiming to automate time-consuming manual spectral analysis. The trained model achieved greater than 90% classification accuracy on test samples, offering a pathway to high-throughput automated microplastic identification that could significantly reduce laboratory processing time in monitoring programs.
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