Optimization of convolutional neural network hyperparameters for automatic classification of adult mosquitoes

Autor: Matias Valdenegro-Toro, Bruna Aparecida Souza Machado, Otavio Gonçalvez Vicente Ribeiro-Filho, Alex Álisson Bandeira Santos, Roberto Badaró, Luis Octavio Arriaga Camargo, Frank Kirchner, Daniel Motta
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Male
Computer science
Entropy
Overfitting
Disease Vectors
medicine.disease_cause
computer.software_genre
Convolutional neural network
Mosquitoes
Dengue fever
Dengue
0302 clinical medicine
Aedes
Medicine and Health Sciences
Image Processing
Computer-Assisted

Chikungunya
Multidisciplinary
biology
Artificial neural network
Zika Virus Infection
Physics
Eukaryota
Insects
Culex
Infectious Diseases
Physical Sciences
Viruses
Medicine
Thermodynamics
Female
Chikungunya virus
Research Article
Computer and Information Sciences
Aedes albopictus
Arthropoda
Neural Networks
Infectious Disease Control
Science
030231 tropical medicine
Aedes aegypti
Mosquito Vectors
Aedes Aegypti
Machine learning
03 medical and health sciences
parasitic diseases
medicine
Animals
Automation
Laboratory

business.industry
fungi
Organisms
Biology and Life Sciences
Zika Virus
Dengue Virus
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
Invertebrates
Culex quinquefasciatus
Insect Vectors
Species Interactions
030104 developmental biology
Culicidae
Chikungunya Fever
Artificial intelligence
business
computer
Zoology
Entomology
Arboviruses
Neuroscience
Zdroj: PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 7, p e0234959 (2020)
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: The economic and social impacts due to diseases transmitted by mosquitoes in the latest years have been significant. Currently, no specific treatment or commercial vaccine exists for the control and prevention of arboviruses, thereby making entomological characterization fundamental in combating diseases such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika. The morphological identification of mosquitos includes a visual exam of the samples. It is time consuming and requires adequately trained professionals. Accordingly, the development of a new automated method for realizing mosquito-perception and -classification is becoming increasingly essential. Therefore, in this study, a computational model based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) was developed to extract features from the images of mosquitoes and then classify the species Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, and Culex quinquefasciatus. In addition, the model was trained to detect the mosquitoes of the genus Aedes. To train CNNs to perform the automatic morphological classification of mosquitoes, a dataset, which included 7,561 images of the target mosquitoes and 1,187 images of other insects, was acquired. Various neural networks, such as Xception and DenseNet, were used for developing the automatic-classification model based on images. A structured optimization process of random search and grid search was developed to select the hyperparameters set and increase the accuracy of the model. In addition, strategies to eliminate overfitting were implemented to increase the generalization of the model. The optimized model, during the test phase, obtained the balanced accuracy (BA) of 93.5% in classifying the target mosquitoes and other insects and the BA of 97.3% in detecting the mosquitoes of the genus Aedes in comparison to Culex. The results provide fundamental information for performing the automatic morphological classification of mosquito species. Using a CNN-embedded entomological tool is a valuable and accessible resource for health workers and non-taxonomists for identifying insects that can transmit infectious diseases.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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