Microscopic Detection Approach of Chinese Herbal Medicine Base on YOLOv8

The detection of Traditional Chinese Medicinals(TCM) is essential to ensure quality and authenticity. Manual detection methods are inefficient and costly. Nevertheless, the integration of microscopic equipment with YOLOv8 in TCM (TCM) detection enhances performance and efficiency, lowers costs, and mitigates the risk of subjective misjudgment by inspectors during the manual detection process. Through the application of YOLOv8 to microscope equipment for target detection and by leveraging the dataset of Chinese medicine microscope images developed by our team, we have implemented a Chinese medicine microscope detection approach, namely TCM-YOLOv8, which can enhance detection efficiency and accuracy. This method effectively detects the microscopic cellular characteristics of TCM. It offers reliable detection even in the face of common challenges such as cellular blurring, incompleteness, and overlap in the microscopic cell detection of TCM.