Title
Acquisition of digital images and identification of aedes aegypti mosquito eggs using classification and deep learning
Date Issued
01 October 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Garcia P.S.C.
Martins R.
Lins Machado Coelho G.L.
Computer Science Department
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
The mosquito Aedes aegypti can transmit some diseases, which makes the study of the proliferation of this vector a necessary task. With the use of traps made in the laboratory, called ovitraps, it is possible to map egg deposition in a community. Through a camera, coupled with a magnifying glass, are acquired images containing the elements (eggs) to be counted. First, the goal is to find pixels with a similar color to mosquito eggs; for that, we take advantage of the slice color method. From these already worked images, a process of transfer learning with a convolutional neural network (CNN) is carried out. The intention is to separate which elements are eggs from the others. In 10% of the test images, the count performed by the model, and the ground truth of the number of eggs was considered weakly correlated. This problem occurs in images that have a high density of eggs or appear black elements that resemble mosquito eggs, but they are not. For the remaining 90% of the test images, the counting was considered to be perfectly correlated.
Start page
47
End page
53
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento Salud pública, Salud ambiental
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85077044204
ISBN
9781728152271
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings - 32nd Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images, SIBGRAPI 2019
ISBN of the container
978-172815227-1
Conference
32nd SIBGRAPI Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images, SIBGRAPI 2019
Sponsor(s)
The authors would like to thank the Epidemiology Laboratory for sharing the work environment and providing a study object for the present study, CAPES and UFOP for their research support.
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