AI developed to identify mosquito types

Yellow fever mosquitoes transmit dreadful diseases such as dengue fever. (Photo = Shutterstock)

AISpecies of Autumn Mosquito(kind)Studies have shown that it is possible to find.

British scientific journal New Scientist[New Scientist]Song Quan Ong of the University of Sabah in Malaysia(Song-Quan Ong)and Hamdan Ahmad of the Malaysian University of Science(Hamdan Ahmad) The research team led by the professor(Temples of the Egyptians), Asian tiger mosquito(Aedes albopictus), southern house mosquito(Five-faced mosquito) conducted about AI reported the results of the experiment.

According to the journal, the researchers wanted to train an artificial intelligence to build a smartphone app that could track these three disease-causing mosquito species.. To do this, two pictures of each mosquito were taken, one immediately after landing on a human hand., The other was after being shattered by human hands.. like this 1,500images of dogs were collected.

mosquitoes with dengue fever, malaria, Kills more people than any other pest because it can transmit diseases like Zika virus fever. AIUse mosquito species(kind)automatically identify their presence globally, making it easier to track their presence around the world. AImust learn images of numerous mosquitoes.

The research team collected data by taking numerous pictures of mosquitoes for AI training. (Photo = Shutterstock)

However, capturing images of live mosquitoes is not as easy as you might think.. The moment people feel they have been bitten by a mosquito, Because they use their hands or tools to strike them down.. Therefore, there is a need for artificial intelligence tools that recognize both live and dead mosquitoes.. this AI Only tools can track the three types of mosquitoes most responsible for spreading disease.

Distinguish between before and after death

Researchers volunteered to help image these mosquitoes 3We recruited people and photographed the live mosquitoes immediately after landing on the hand and the mosquitoes that were caught and dead after landing.. Some mosquitoes bite volunteers before they die, Other mosquitoes were killed before they got a chance to suck blood. Professor Song Quan Ong “We aim to create images similar to real life”said.

Researchers used half of the live mosquitoes and half of the dead and scattered mosquitoes. 1,500After creating two images, we use this data set to create two different AItrained to recognize mosquitoes on human skin.

The AI can also identify species of mosquitoes that have been killed and scattered by the blow. (Photo = Shutterstock)

As a result with better performance AIis the exact species(kind)could guess. trained like this AIcan trigger a smartphone app that people can use to identify mosquitoes they encounter and It will help researchers track these insects.

Research efforts have also been made in the past to automatically identify mosquitoes.. A research group around the world 15Species of mosquito sex, inside(Genus), bell(kind), to classify by type AItrained. the other team 67Trained artificial intelligence to identify species of mosquito. Each data set built its own data set that could, in theory, be combined with the latest data set.. Janelle Kure of the University of Rhode Island(Janelle Kure) the professor “The more images of mosquitoes, the better”said.