Image processing tools in the study of environmental contamination by microplastics: reliability and perspectives.

ABSTRACT: Microplastic pollution is one of the greatest environmental concerns for contemporary times and the future. In the last years, the number of publications about microplastic contamination has increased rapidly and the list is daily updated. However, the lack of standard analytical approaches might generate data inconsistencies, reducing the comparability among different studies. The present study investigates the potential of two image processing tools (namely the shapeR package for R and ImageJ 1.52v) in providing an accurate characterization of the shape of microplastics using a restricted set of shape descriptors. To ascertain that the selected tools can measure small shape differences, we perform an experiment to verify the detection of pre-post variations in the shape of different micr

SUBMITTER: Valente T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9813107 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature