diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-package.yml b/.github/workflows/python-package.yml
index 0f45e676..51be3796 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-package.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-package.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ on: push
 jobs:
   build:
 
-    runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
         # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
         # flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
 
-        flake8 . --ignore=E222,E402,E226,E241,E203,E202,E271,E201,E221  --count --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=200 --statistics
+        flake8 . --ignore=E222,E402,E226,E241,E203,E202,E271,E201,E221,C901  --count --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=200 --statistics
     - name: Test with pytest
       run: |
         IS_CI_RUNNER=True pytest
diff --git a/examples/image_to_annotations.py b/examples/image_to_annotations.py
index 6103daa0..1051b861 100644
--- a/examples/image_to_annotations.py
+++ b/examples/image_to_annotations.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ def image_to_annotations(img_fn: str, out_dir: str) -> None:
     detection_results = json.loads(resp.content)
 
     # error check detection_results
-    if type(detection_results) == dict and 'code' in detection_results.keys() and detection_results['code'] == 404:
+    if isinstance(detection_results, dict) and 'code' in detection_results.keys() and detection_results['code'] == 404:
         assert False, f'Error performing detection. Check that drawn_humanoid_detector.mar was properly downloaded. Response: {detection_results}'
 
     # order results by score, descending
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ def image_to_annotations(img_fn: str, out_dir: str) -> None:
     pose_results = json.loads(resp.content)
 
     # error check pose_results
-    if type(pose_results) == dict and 'code' in pose_results.keys() and pose_results['code'] == 404:
+    if isinstance(pose_results, dict) and 'code' in pose_results.keys() and pose_results['code'] == 404:
         assert False, f'Error performing pose estimation. Check that drawn_humanoid_pose_estimator.mar was properly downloaded. Response: {pose_results}'
 
     # if more than one skeleton detected, abort
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 632a3ce5..15a547e9 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     python_requires='>=3.8.13',
     install_requires=[
         'numpy== 1.23.3',
-        'scipy==1.9.3',
+        'scipy==1.10.0',
         'scikit-image==0.19.3',
         'scikit-learn==1.1.2',
         'shapely==1.8.5.post1',