Design of an intelligent identification and sorting system used for classification of multiobjective medical waste
Medical waste contains lots of viruses and bacteria.To intelligently sort medical waste from the source,an in-telligent sorting platform based on machine vision and the Delta mechanism was developed,and a three-stage multiob-jective recognition-indexes-sorting(MWRIS)algorithm was proposed.In the first stage,the IE-YOLOv4 algorithm of data enhancement and expansion was proposed to establish a medical waste identification model,which was compared with five models,including Faster R-CNN,RetinaNet,and CenterNet.In the second stage,the index classification mod-el was used to manage the classification rules.In the third stage,the positioning sorting algorithm was used to guide tar-get positioning and grabbing.For the sorting prototype integrated with the MWRIS algorithm,2 217 medical sample im-ages of 14 kinds were collected,and the medical waste sorting experiment was completed.The results showed that the MWRIS algorithm using IE-YOLOv4 can significantly improve the accuracy of medical waste identification to 99.30%,the accuracy rate of target positioning in the sorting experiment reaches 96.17%,and the final classification accuracy reaches 86.67%,verifying the effectiveness of the proposed medical waste identification and sorting system.