TY - CHAP A1 - Maniyattu, Georgekutty Jose A1 - Geegy, Eldho A1 - Leiter, Nina A1 - Wohlschläger, Maximilian A1 - Versen, Martin A1 - Laforsch, Christian T1 - Development of a neural network to identify plastics using Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy T2 - 2022 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS) N2 - Plastics have become a major part of human’s daily life. An uncontrolled usage of plastic leads to an accumulation in the environment posing a threat to flora and fauna, if not recycled correctly. The correct sorting and recycling of the most commonly available plastic types and an identification of plastic in the environment are important. Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy shows a high potential in sorting and identifying plastic types. A data-based and an image-based classification are investigated using python programming language to demonstrate the potential of a neural network based on fluorescence lifetime images to identify plastic types. The results indicate that the data-based classification has a higher identification accuracy compared to the image-based classification. KW - fluorescence lifetime imaging KW - FLIM KW - neural networks KW - plastic identification Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881372 SP - 1 EP - 6 ER -