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Microplastic Identification via Holographic Imaging and Machine Learning

Researchers combined holographic imaging with machine learning algorithms to automatically identify and classify microplastics in water samples, achieving accurate particle detection without manual microscopy. This automated approach could significantly speed up microplastic monitoring in environmental samples.

2019 Advanced Intelligent Systems 155 citations
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Microplastic pollution monitoring with holographic classification and deep learning

This study used digital holographic microscopy combined with deep learning to classify microplastic particles in water samples, achieving high classification accuracy and demonstrating the potential for automated, high-throughput microplastic monitoring.

2021 Journal of Physics Photonics 67 citations
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Automatic Detection of Microplastics by Deep Learning Enabled Digital Holography

Researchers developed a digital holography system combined with deep learning to automatically detect and identify microplastics in water without manual image analysis. The system processes raw holographic images directly, offering a faster and more scalable approach to microplastic monitoring in environmental samples.

2020 Imaging and Applied Optics Congress 12 citations
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Holographic Classifier: Deep Learning in Digital Holography for Automatic Micro-objects Classification

Researchers developed a deep learning system using digital holography to automatically classify micro-objects such as microplastics and pollutant particles without manual image processing. The system achieved fast, accurate identification, offering a promising automated tool for environmental pollution monitoring.

2020 19 citations
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Digital holographic imaging and classification of microplastics using deep transfer learning

Researchers developed a digital holographic imaging system combined with deep learning to automatically classify and analyze microplastic particles in water samples. Automated imaging and AI-based identification could significantly speed up and standardize microplastic monitoring, reducing the labor-intensive manual counting currently required.

2020 Applied Optics 58 citations
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Digital holographic microplastics detection and characterization in heterogeneous samples via deep learning

Researchers used digital holographic microscopy combined with deep learning to detect and characterize microplastic particles in heterogeneous samples containing algae, microorganisms, and other natural particles. This automated approach could improve the speed and accuracy of environmental microplastic monitoring.

2021 Twelfth International Conference on Information Optics and Photonics 7 citations
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High-throughput microplastic assessment using polarization holographic imaging

Researchers built a portable, low-cost system that uses holographic imaging and polarized light combined with deep learning to automatically detect, count, and classify microplastics in water in real time — without lengthy sample preparation. This tool significantly speeds up microplastic monitoring and could be widely deployed for environmental surveillance.

2024 Scientific Reports 36 citations
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Enhanced classification of microplastic polymers (polyethylene, polystyrene, low‐density polyethylene, polyhydroxyalkanoate) in waterbodies

Researchers developed a new deep learning model to automatically detect and classify different types of microplastic polymers in water from holographic images. The system combines advanced image segmentation with a vision transformer to identify polyethylene, polystyrene, low-density polyethylene, and polyhydroxyalkanoate particles. The approach aims to improve the speed and accuracy of microplastic monitoring in aquatic environments compared to traditional manual methods.

2024 Polymers for Advanced Technologies 4 citations
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Intelligent Digital Holographic systems to counteract microplastic pollution in marine waters

Researchers developed a digital holography system capable of detecting and classifying microplastic particles in seawater in a label-free, high-throughput manner. The system can identify plastic particles that are otherwise invisible to the naked eye and can be adapted for use with microfluidic devices. This technology offers a faster and more compact alternative to traditional microscopy methods for marine microplastic monitoring.

2022 2022 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for the Sea; Learning to Measure Sea Health Parameters (MetroSea) 4 citations
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Microplastic pollution assessment with digital holography and zero-shot learning

Researchers developed a digital holography system combined with zero-shot machine learning to identify and characterize microplastics in environmental samples without requiring labeled training data, offering a promising automated tool for large-scale microplastic monitoring.

2022 APL Photonics 31 citations
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Deep Classification of Microplastics Through Image Fusion Techniques

Deep neural networks were applied to classify microplastic fibers captured via digital holography microscopy, using image fusion techniques on the Holography Micro-Plastic Dataset benchmark. The study demonstrated promising accuracy for distinguishing microplastics from other debris, advancing automated microplastic identification in water quality monitoring.

2024 IEEE Access 8 citations
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On the use of machine learning for microplastic identification from holographic phase-contrast signatures

This study applied machine learning to identify microplastic types from holographic phase-contrast imaging signatures, achieving rapid automated classification. Automated identification tools are important for scaling up microplastic monitoring in marine waters where manual identification is too slow and labor-intensive.

2023 2 citations
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Polarization Holographic Imaging for High-throughput Microplastic Analysis

Researchers developed a polarization holography system integrated with deep learning for high-throughput microplastic detection and analysis in aqueous environments. The system enables dynamic, real-time multimodal monitoring of microplastics by leveraging polarization contrast to distinguish particles in liquid samples.

2023 3 citations
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Nanoplastics in Water: Artificial Intelligence-Assisted 4D Physicochemical Characterization and Rapid In Situ Detection

Researchers developed an artificial intelligence-powered holographic microscopy system that can detect and classify nanoplastics in water in real time, without any sample preparation. The technology identified particles as small as 135 nanometers and tracked their movement in three dimensions. This represents a significant advancement in environmental monitoring, as previous methods required extensive lab processing to detect plastic particles this small.

2024 Environmental Science & Technology 34 citations
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Identification of Microplastics Based on the Fractal Properties of Their Holographic Fingerprint

Researchers developed an AI-enabled holographic imaging approach to identify microplastics in water using the fractal properties of their holographic fingerprints, offering a fast, label-free identification method.

2021 ACS Photonics 57 citations
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Material analysis with polarization holography and machine learning

Researchers developed a polarization holographic imaging system combined with machine learning to identify different materials, demonstrating the approach on microplastic identification. This novel optical method could become a fast, non-destructive tool for classifying microplastics in environmental samples.

2023 1 citations
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Digital holographic approaches to the detection and characterization of microplastics in water environments

This review examines advances in using digital holography as a high-throughput tool for detecting and characterizing microplastics in water. Researchers discuss both the hardware and software developments, including the growing role of artificial intelligence for classification tasks. The study highlights the emergence of field-portable holographic flow cytometers as a promising technology for real-time water monitoring of microplastic contamination.

2023 Applied Optics 20 citations
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Holographic imaging and machine learning for microplastic size and shape analysis in water

Researchers used a portable holographic camera paired with deep-learning AI to rapidly measure the size and shape of microplastics floating in water, finding the lightweight MobileNetV2 model outperformed the larger ResNet101 in classification accuracy. The method offers a cost-effective, field-deployable tool for monitoring microplastics in drinking water at scale.

2025 Emerging contaminants
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Computational polarized holography for automatic monitoring of microplastics in scattering aquatic environments

Researchers developed an integrated imaging system based on computational polarized holography for automatic monitoring of microplastics in aquatic environments. The system enables accurate 3D tracking of dynamic microplastic particles, and a hybrid de-scattering algorithm substantially improves image quality even in turbid water conditions. An unsupervised clustering method was also developed to identify and classify different microplastics based on their multimodal features without manual annotation.

2025 APL Photonics 5 citations
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Complete holography‐based system for the identification of microparticles in water samples

Researchers developed a comprehensive holography-based system for identifying and classifying microparticles — including microplastics — in water samples using microscopic holographic projections, designed for researchers without specialist holography expertise. The system is deployable as part of an autonomous sailboat robot for large-scale environmental monitoring of diverse microplastic types in water bodies.

2023 Journal of Microscopy 4 citations