Abstract
AbstractConventional monitoring methods for disease vectors, pollinators or agricultural pests require time-consuming trapping and identification of individual insects. Automated optical sensors that detect backscattered near-infrared modulations created by flying insects are increasingly used to identify and count live insects, but do not inform about the health status of individual insects. Here we show that deep learning in trained convolutional neural networks in conjunction with sensors is a promising emerging method to detect infected insects. Health status was correctly determined in 85.6% of cases as early as two days post infection with a fungal pathogen. The ability to monitor insect health in real-time potentially has wide-reaching implications for preserving pollinator biodiversity and the rapid assessment of disease carrying individuals in vector populations.One sentence summaryAutomated optical sensors distinguish between fungus-infected and healthy insects.
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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