Molecular characterization of anopheline mosquitoes from the goat malaria‐endemic areas of Thailand

Nguyen, Anh Hoang; Nugraheni, Yudhi Ratna; Nguyen, Thi Thanh Hai; Aung, Aung; Narapakdeesakul, Duriyang; Kaewlamun, Winai; Asada, Masahito; Kaewthamasorn, Morakot

doi:10.1111/mve.12638

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“…In the study, archived mosquito species identified by expert entomologists were used 16 , 49 , 50 . Images were photographed by using two-independent equipment including a camera-adhere mobile phone and a Nikon SMZ745 microscope mounted to a Nikon DS series digital camera (Table 1 ).…”

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Automatic identification of medically important mosquitoes using embedded learning approach-based image-retrieval system

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Mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever and malaria are the top 10 leading causes of death in low-income countries. Control measure for the mosquito population plays an essential role in the fight against the disease. Currently, several intervention strategies; chemical-, biological-, mechanical- and environmental methods remain under development and need further improvement in their effectiveness. Although, a conventional entomological surveillance, required a microscope and taxonomic key for identification by professionals, is a key strategy to evaluate the population growth of these mosquitoes, these techniques are tedious, time-consuming, labor-intensive, and reliant on skillful and well-trained personnel. Here, we proposed an automatic screening, namely the deep metric learning approach and its inference under the image-retrieval process with Euclidean distance-based similarity. We aimed to develop the optimized model to find suitable miners and suggested the robustness of the proposed model by evaluating it with unseen data under a 20-returned image system. During the model development, well-trained ResNet34 are outstanding and no performance difference when comparing five data miners that showed up to 98% in its precision even after testing the model with both image sources: stereomicroscope and mobile phone cameras. The robustness of the proposed—trained model was tested with secondary unseen data which showed different environmental factors such as lighting, image scales, background colors and zoom levels. Nevertheless, our proposed neural network still has great performance with greater than 95% for sensitivity and precision, respectively. Also, the area under the ROC curve given the learning system seems to be practical and empirical with its value greater than 0.960. The results of the study may be used by public health authorities to locate mosquito vectors nearby. If used in the field, our research tool in particular is believed to accurately represent a real-world scenario.

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“…Those archived samples obtained were collected from four-different provinces in Thailand 16 . ( c ) archived mosquito samples obtained from Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University 49 , 50 , were also captured by both stereomicroscope and mobile phone’s cameras. …”

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