MedBin: A lightweight End-to-End model-based method for medical waste management

IF 7.1 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL Waste management Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI:10.1016/j.wasman.2025.114742
Xiazhen Xu , Chenyang Wang , Qiufeng Yi , Jiaqi Ye , Xiangfei Kong , Shazad Q Ashraf , Karl D. Dearn , Amir M. Hajiyavand
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The surge in medical waste has highlighted the urgent need for cost-effective and advanced management solutions. In this paper, a novel medical waste management approach, “MedBin,” is proposed for automated sorting, reusing, and recycling. A comprehensive medical waste dataset, ”MedBin-Dataset“ is established, comprising 2,119 original images spanning 36 categories, with samples captured in various backgrounds. The lightweight ”MedBin-Net“ model is introduced to enable detection and instance segmentation of medical waste, enhancing waste recognition capabilities. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, achieving an average precision of 0.91, recall of 0.97, and F1-score of 0.94 across all categories with just 2.51 M parameters (where M stands for million, i.e., 2.51 million parameters), 5.20G FLOPs (where G stands for billion, i.e., 5.20 billion floating-point operations per second), and 0.60 ms inference time. Additionally, the proposed method includes a World Health Organization (WHO) Guideline-Based Classifier that categorizes detected waste into 5 types, each with a corresponding disposal method, following WHO medical waste classification standards. The proposed method, along with the dedicated dataset, offers a promising solution that supports sustainable medical waste management and other related applications. To access the MedBin-Dataset samples, please visit https://universe.roboflow.com/uob-ylti8/medbin_dataset. The source code for MedBin-Net can be found at https://github.com/Wayne3918/MedbinNet.
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Waste management
Waste management 环境科学-工程:环境
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审稿时长
39 days
期刊介绍: Waste Management is devoted to the presentation and discussion of information on solid wastes,it covers the entire lifecycle of solid. wastes. Scope: Addresses solid wastes in both industrialized and economically developing countries Covers various types of solid wastes, including: Municipal (e.g., residential, institutional, commercial, light industrial) Agricultural Special (e.g., C and D, healthcare, household hazardous wastes, sewage sludge)
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