Re:The Opioid Detection Challenge
by sudosteph on Monday March 25, 2019 @07:17PM
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Wow, they must be really desperate to think this was a good idea. Maybe it's their last ditch effort to say "we tried everything" before petitioning for a change of laws to open up more packages for inspection.
It's kinda silly, the only sample data is for positive detection of opiods from xray images. They don't give you any examples of things that are false positives or give you dimensions of the packages in the images or details on what was actually in those xray images (like weight or something could be good info?). So yeah, maybe you could set up some machine learning thing to be like "ooh it looks like powder!" but they don't give you info about how long it even takes to take those xray images or the size of those machines or how frequently they get used currently, all of which are appear to be factors in their selection process.
It's kinda silly, the only sample data is for positive detection of opiods from xray images. They don't give you any examples of things that are false positives or give you dimensions of the packages in the images or details on what was actually in those xray images (like weight or something could be good info?). So yeah, maybe you could set up some machine learning thing to be like "ooh it looks like powder!" but they don't give you info about how long it even takes to take those xray images or the size of those machines or how frequently they get used currently, all of which are appear to be factors in their selection process.