An autoencoder and artificial neural network-based method to estimate parity status of wild mosquitoes from near-infrared spectra.

ABSTRACT: After mating, female mosquitoes need animal blood to develop their eggs. In the process of acquiring blood, they may acquire pathogens, which may cause different diseases in humans such as malaria, zika, dengue, and chikungunya. Therefore, knowing the parity status of mosquitoes is useful in control and evaluation of infectious diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, where parous mosquitoes are assumed to be potentially infectious. Ovary dissections, which are currently used to determine the parity status of mosquitoes, are very tedious and limited to few experts. An alternative to ovary dissections is near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), which can estimate the age in days and the infectious state of laboratory and semi-field reared mosquitoes with accuracies between 80 and 99%. No study has tes

SUBMITTER: Milali MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7302571 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature