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A user-friendly software to easily count Anopheles egg batches

2012-06Journal article Open Access
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dc.contributor.authorMollahosseini, Ali
dc.contributor.authorRossignol, Marie
dc.contributor.authorPennetier, Cedric
dc.contributor.authorCohuet, Anna
dc.contributor.authorDos Anjos, António
dc.contributor.authorChandre, Fabrice
dc.contributor.authorShahbazkia, Hamid Reza
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-07T14:57:59Z
dc.date.available2018-12-07T14:57:59Z
dc.date.issued2012-06
dc.description.abstractBackground: Studies on malaria vector ecology and development/evaluation of vector control strategies often require measures of mosquito life history traits. Assessing the fecundity of malaria vectors can be carried out by counting eggs laid by Anopheles females. However, manually counting the eggs is time consuming, tedious, and error prone. Methods: In this paper we present a newly developed software for high precision automatic egg counting. The software written in the Java programming language proposes a user-friendly interface and a complete online manual. It allows the inspection of results by the operator and includes proper tools for manual corrections. The user can in fact correct any details on the acquired results by a mouse click. Time saving is significant and errors due to loss of concentration are avoided. Results: The software was tested over 16 randomly chosen images from 2 different experiments. The results show that the proposed automatic method produces results that are close to the ground truth. Conclusions: The proposed approaches demonstrated a very high level of robustness. The adoption of the proposed software package will save many hours of labor to the bench scientist. The software needs no particular configuration and is freely available for download on: http://w3.ualg.pt/(similar to)hshah/eggcounter/.
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/1756-3305-5-122
dc.identifier.issn1756-3305
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/11795
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherBMC
dc.relationMalaria Transmission Blocking by Vaccines, Drugs and Immune Mosquitoes: Efficacy Assessment and Targets
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectReproductive fitness
dc.subjectStephensi mosquitos
dc.subjectMolecular-forms
dc.subjectGambiae diptera
dc.subjectMalaria vector
dc.subjectFecundity
dc.subjectInfection
dc.subjectArabiensis
dc.subjectCulicidae
dc.subjectSurvival
dc.titleA user-friendly software to easily count Anopheles egg batches
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.awardTitleMalaria Transmission Blocking by Vaccines, Drugs and Immune Mosquitoes: Efficacy Assessment and Targets
oaire.awardURIinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/223736/EU
oaire.citation.endPage7
oaire.citation.startPage1
oaire.citation.titleParasites and Vectors
oaire.citation.volume5
oaire.fundingStreamFP7
person.familyNameAnjos
person.familyNameShahbazkia
person.givenNameAntónio
person.givenNameHamid Reza
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project.funder.identifierhttp://doi.org/10.13039/501100008530
project.funder.nameEuropean Commission
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