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This paper proposes a methodology to count and obtain the length and width averages of a sample of oysters from an image, relying on artificial intelligence (AI), which refers to systems capable of learning and decision-making, and computer vision (CV), which enables the extraction of information from digital images. The proposed approach employs the DBScan clustering algorithm, an artificial neural network (ANN), and a random forest classifier to enable automatic oyster classification, counting, and size estimation from images. As a result of the proposed methodology, the speed in measuring the length and width of the oysters was 86.7 times faster than manual measurement. Regarding the counting, the process missed the total count of oysters in two of the ten images. 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