arXiv Machine Learning
Learning from waste: Machine Learning for health risk prediction and computer vision-based sorting in Ghana
Read the original on arXiv Machine Learning →The study applies machine learning to address Ghana’s solid waste disposal challenges, using a Random Forest classifier to predict illness categories from waste practices and demographics, achieving a macro F1 score of 0.63. A MobileNetV2 image classifier was also developed for automated waste sorting, reaching 88.2% accuracy and a macro F1 of 0.87 on 415 images. These quantitative results confirm a previously qualitative link between waste disposal and health, while demonstrating the feasibility of low‑cost, camera‑based sorting in resource‑constrained settings.
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