A user-friendly software to easily count Anopheles egg batches

Mollahosseini, Ali; Rossignol, Marie; Pennetier, Cédric; Cohuet, Anna; Anjos, António dos; Chandre, Fabrice; Shahbazkia,  Hamid Reza

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A user-friendly software to easily count Anopheles egg batches

2012-06-19Journal article

dc.contributor.author	Mollahosseini, Ali
dc.contributor.author	Rossignol, Marie
dc.contributor.author	Pennetier, Cédric
dc.contributor.author	Cohuet, Anna
dc.contributor.author	Anjos, António dos
dc.contributor.author	Chandre, Fabrice
dc.contributor.author	Shahbazkia, Hamid Reza
dc.date.accessioned	2012-11-22T22:51:33Z
dc.date.available	2012-11-22T22:51:33Z
dc.date.issued	2012-06-19
dc.date.updated	2012-10-17T06:14:05Z
dc.description.abstract	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/∼hshah/eggcounter/.	por
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dc.identifier.citation	Parasites & Vectors. 2012 Jun 19;5(1):122	por
dc.identifier.doi	10.1186/1756-3305-5-122
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/1865
dc.language.iso	eng	por
dc.peerreviewed	yes	por
dc.publisher	BiomedCentral	por
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
dc.title	A user-friendly software to easily count Anopheles egg batches	por
dc.type	journal article
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oaire.citation.issue	122	por
oaire.citation.title	Parasites & Vectors	por
oaire.citation.volume	5	por
person.familyName	Shahbazkia
person.givenName	Hamid Reza
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person.identifier.orcid	0000-0002-5661-0612
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