{"id":203542,"date":"2025-01-11T05:12:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T11:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/ai-enabled-technology-is-98-accurate-at-spotting-illegal-contraband"},"modified":"2025-01-11T05:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T11:12:19","slug":"ai-enabled-technology-is-98-accurate-at-spotting-illegal-contraband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/ai-enabled-technology-is-98-accurate-at-spotting-illegal-contraband","title":{"rendered":"AI-enabled technology is 98% accurate at spotting illegal contraband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-enabled-technology-is-98-accurate-at-spotting-illegal-contraband2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trying to spot contraband is a tricky business. Not only is identifying items like narcotics and counterfeit merchandise difficult, but the current most used technology\u2014X-rays\u2014only gives a 2D view, and often a muddy one at that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not like X-raying a tooth, where you just have a tooth,\u201d said Eric Miller, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Tufts. Instead, it\u2019s like X-raying a tooth and getting the entire dental exam room.<\/p>\n<p>But Miller and his research team have now found a possible solution that uses AI with <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/deep+learning\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">deep learning<\/a> to spot items that shouldn\u2019t be there and is accurate 98% of the time. Their findings were published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0952197624018335?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to spot contraband is a tricky business. Not only is identifying items like narcotics and counterfeit merchandise difficult, but the current most used technology\u2014X-rays\u2014only gives a 2D view, and often a muddy one at that. \u201cIt\u2019s not like X-raying a tooth, where you just have a tooth,\u201d said Eric Miller, professor of electrical and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}