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Using artificial intelligence to predict aquatic pollution: A comprehensive review

  • Mustafa Saif Al Deen H. Hassan
  • , Nearan A. Al Naqeeb
  • , Mohammed Raoof Al-Musawi
  • , Shaima R. Banoon*
  • , Mustafa Karam Mohammed
  • , Muhammad Bilal
  • , Mohammad Sammany
  • , M. A. Abdelzaher
  • *Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

4 Scopus citations

Abstract

Water contamination, or aquatic pollution, is a significant problem that endangers ecosystems, people's health, and the global economy. Laborious, expensive, and inadequate for real-time evaluations, traditional approaches to tracking and forecasting aquatic contamination include substantial manual sampling and laboratory testing. Pollutants and their origins are already complex, and the wide variety of chemical structures they contain further complicates matters. Because of these constraints, there is an ongoing, intense need for reliable predictions of pollution levels. The most promising method is artificial intelligence (AI), which can effectively interpret noisy data and handle nonlinears systems. When it comes to forecasting different types of water contamination, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are among the most promising advanced AI models. To improve the forecasting accuracy of artificial neural networks (ANNs) for certain classes of pollutants, hybrid techniques, including radial basis function networks and small-world networks, have been developed. The field of water pollution research may also find success with Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). The purpose of this study is to shed light on research into how AI, and more specifically sophisticated models such as artificial neural networks (ANNs) and deep neural networks (DNNs), might improve the precision and effectiveness of pollution prediction.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)50-67
Number of pages18
JournalInternational Journal of Aquatic Biology
Volume13
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2025

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 Iranian Society of Ichthyology.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  2. SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
    SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation

Keywords

  • Artificial neural networks
  • Convolutional neural networks
  • IoT-Based environmental sensing
  • Machine learning
  • Water quality monitoring

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Oceanography
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Aquatic Science
  • Ecology

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