General waste is commonly managed to reduce pollution. Similarly, medical waste can be classified and managed to not only reduce pollution but also mitigate health risks and accidental injuries. Medical waste includes a variety of materials such as those contaminated with body fluids, sharps waste, and chemical waste. This study evaluates modern Artificial Intelligence methods for classifying medical waste such as facemasks, gloves, and syringes. Various classification models, including CNN, ResNet50, YOLO v3, and YOLO v4, were used and compared. YOLO v4 achieves a higher mAP (89.21%), surpassing YOLO v3 and other YOLO models used in waste classification studies. YOLO v4 was then tested in object detection and successfully identified masks, gloves, and syringes. Further performance evaluations are necessary to enhance the detection of medical waste and other objects in various applications.


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    Title :

    Medical Waste Detection and Classification Through YOLO Algorithms


    Additional title:

    Lect. Notes in Networks, Syst.



    Conference:

    International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications ; 2023 ; Taicang December 06, 2023 - December 08, 2023



    Publication date :

    2024-11-29


    Size :

    12 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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