With over 3,500 mosquito species described, accurate species identification of the few implicated in disease transmission is critical to mosquito borne disease mitigation. Yet this task is hindered by limited global taxonomic expertise and specimen damage consistent across common capture methods. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are promising with limited sets of species, but image database requirements restrict practical implementation. Using an image database of 2,696 specimens from 67 mosquito species, we address the practical open-set problem with a detection algorithm for novel-species. Closed-set classification of 16 known species achieved 97.04±0.87% accuracy independently, and 89.07±5.58% when cascaded with novelty detection. Closed-set classification of 39 species produces a macro F1-score of 86.07±1.81%. This demonstrates an accurate, scalable, and practical computer vision solution to identify wild-caught mosquitoes for implementation in biosurveillance and targeted vector control programs, without the need for extensive image database development for each new target region.
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Competing interest reported. AG, MG, TF, and SP are owners of VecTech, a company developing precision environmental health tools.
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With over 3,500 mosquito species described, accurate species identification of the few implicated in disease transmission is critical to mosquito borne disease mitigation. Yet this task is hindered by limited global taxonomic expertise and specimen damage consistent across common capture methods. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are promising with limited sets of species, but image database requirements restrict practical implementation. Using an image database of 2,696 specimens from 67 mosquito species, we address the practical open-set problem with a detection algorithm for novel-species. Closed-set classification of 16 known species achieved 97.04±0.87% accuracy independently, and 89.07±5.58% when cascaded with novelty detection. Closed-set classification of 39 species produces a macro F1-score of 86.07±1.81%. This demonstrates an accurate, scalable, and practical computer vision solution to identify wild-caught mosquitoes for implementation in biosurveillance and targeted vector control programs, without the need for extensive image database development for each new target region.
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This preprint is available for download as a PDF.
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