Automatic counting of Aedes Aegypti eggs deposited in ovitrap by algorithm of Digital Image Processing and Artificial Neural Network

摘要

According to World Health Organization, Dengue is identified as one of the main pandemic viral disease in tropical and semi-tropical countries in the world. A lot of researches have divulged that the use of ovitraps has itself shown a simple and inexpensive alternative for monitoring and controlling Dengue vector, Aedes Aegypti, but generally the process of counting Dengue mosquito eggs in ovitraps is performed manually. This paper describes a proposal for automatic counting of Aedes Aegypti eggs deposited in ovitraps by Digital Image Processing techniques associated to an Artificial Neural Network.