{"id":30387,"date":"2018-10-02T10:12:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T14:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/?p=30387"},"modified":"2018-10-02T10:12:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T14:12:50","slug":"ai-may-be-monitoring-water-supplies-someday-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/ai-may-be-monitoring-water-supplies-someday-soon.htm","title":{"rendered":"AI May be Monitoring Water Supplies Someday Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right now, when an expert at a water treatment plant detects cyanobacteria in a sample, they have to take action quickly. Some treatment facilities can handle cyanobacteria, but many smaller systems can&#8217;t, and separate water supplies such as those from private wells are typically not tested at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-018-27406-0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recent feasibility study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of new artificial intelligence (AI) water monitoring technology may mean an easier, more cost-effective solution for water treatment plants\u2014especially for smaller and more rural municipalities. A team from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uwaterloo.ca\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University of Waterloo (UW)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has developed AI software that can identify and count various types of cyanobacteria in water samples. UW systems design engineering professor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uwaterloo.ca\/systems-design-engineering\/profile\/a28wong\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alexander Wong<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> spoke to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EM<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about the technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Automating a painstaking process<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe thought this might be interesting to investigate because when people are doing this type of water analysis, they need to do it manually,\u201d explains <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eng.uwaterloo.ca\/~a28wong\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Wong<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cNot that many people even have the expertise to do it, and even if they do, the need to do it manually means looking at the samples and counting every single microorganism inside them, which is a really painstaking process. So we thought, &#8216;Well, we think this is something that can be automated,&#8217; mainly because of our backgrounds in AI. So our thought was, given our expertise in artificial intelligence, maybe we can leverage the machine to help us with this task so we can do it much faster and much more frequently.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30390\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30390\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AI_watermonitor_schematic-600x115.jpg\" alt=\"AI\" width=\"600\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AI_watermonitor_schematic-600x115.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AI_watermonitor_schematic-300x58.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AI_watermonitor_schematic-768x148.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AI_watermonitor_schematic.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Schematic of overall process of image acquisition and analysis. (Credit: Jin et al., https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-018-27406-0\/figures\/1.)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The result was an AI system that uses a microscope and software to analyze water samples, searching for algae cells, and categorizing and counting any cells it finds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe user has to take a sample and put it under the microscope, and the AI will then actually observe what the microscope captures,\u201d details Dr. Wong. \u201cThen it will be able to tell the user what type of cells it is seeing in the sample as well as the number of that type of cell, which is really quite critical, because these criteria are used to judge, for example, whether the water is safe, whether treatment needs to take place and whether there are aspects of treatment that need to be changed. It&#8217;s not just based on what&#8217;s in there, but also the amount that is in there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Systems like this work a little bit like IBM&#8217;s Watson, which is learning to mimic human thinking by slogging through millions of medical images and learning which are problematic. Although it can\u2019t think like a human doctor yet, it can process a vast amount of data, learn, and remember\u2014finding patterns that a human might miss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe have the machine learn from past patterns so that it&#8217;s able to identify what makes a particular specimen the way it is,\u201d Dr. Wong describes. \u201cWe&#8217;re catching these cues using artificial intelligence as opposed to having to be completed by hand. Our goal is to help experts be able to do what they need to do faster, more reliably, more consistently, more accurately.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Finding a potentially deadly contaminant in water<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The current state of the art for testing water samples for cyanobacteria usually involves sending samples out to labs where specialists can manually analyze them\u2014a process that can take days, with potential public health crises and important policy decisions hanging in the balance. Some municipalities have their own automated systems, but these are very expensive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is still a need for someone to physically take water samples, but that&#8217;s not as difficult a task. Once the sample is in place, the system will microscopically examine the samples, and do the counting and sorting.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30391\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30391\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AI_watermonitor_algae-in-water-600x464.jpg\" alt=\"AI\" width=\"600\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AI_watermonitor_algae-in-water-600x464.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AI_watermonitor_algae-in-water-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AI_watermonitor_algae-in-water-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AI_watermonitor_algae-in-water.jpg 928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Algae in a water sample from Lake Erie. (Credit: David Zapotosky, EPA, https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/sites\/production\/files\/styles\/large\/public\/2017-11\/toledo_water_intake_hab_photo_credit_to_david_zapotosky.jpg.)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cInstead of having to send a sample off, a municipality can just have this set up in their facility, take a bit of that water sample and put it under the microscope, which doesn&#8217;t take special expertise, and they&#8217;ll get the information and be able to make their judgment directly based on it,\u201d adds Dr. Wong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An AI-powered solution right inside a treatment plant would mean fast, frequent testing at a much lower cost\u2014and a rapid warning, for any user.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe really see the promise of this technique, especially with the level of consistency we&#8217;re able to get right now, and we think this is quite a promising path that will allow for continuous, large-scale monitoring,\u201d remarks Dr. Wong. \u201cWe also think it will be very cost-effective in comparison because right now the level of expertise that&#8217;s required to do this properly means that very few people are able to do it. This could greatly help municipalities that really don&#8217;t have people on staff, and free them from needing to actually send samples by plane. It could really be a game changer when things are thoroughly tested and planned out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Getting ready for AI<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the next two to three years, the team plans to refine the technology, and the machine learning that&#8217;s driving the system will benefit from that refinement process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNow that we know this is feasible, we&#8217;re planning on conducting a more thorough examination,\u201d comments Dr. Wong. \u201cRight now the number of types of cells that we&#8217;re analyzing is limited. There are many harsher types of environments out there where the water is not as clean. Maybe when the system analyzes water that has many contaminants in it, that might make it harder for the AI. On the flip side, when we actually examine these more challenging situations, we might be able to get new insights that we can then leverage as we teach the system.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the team works to improve the technology until it is ready for continuous monitoring, they will eventually test the system in the field. In the meantime, Dr. Wong hopes decision-makers in the industry are already thinking about AI and how to develop policies for the technology, which is on its way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think this technology is going to help drive the field, and that&#8217;s something that leadership right now should be thinking about: how to prepare for it,\u201d states Dr. Wong. \u201cLike anything else, there are two sides. Many people are very negative about AI technologies in the field; they don&#8217;t quite understand it. Other people really embrace it. But to me, it&#8217;s the time now to think of not only what&#8217;s going to happen, but also to be ready to eventually deploy technology like this. Because even if the tech is ready, if the people are not, that makes it very hard to adopt it in any widespread way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Top image: Dr. Alex Wong. 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