Image Dataset of Aedes and Culex Mosquito Species

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Reshma Pise (Vishwakarma University , India)Mayawadee Aungmaneeporn (Kasetsart University, Thailand)Prawit Chumchu (Kasetsart University, Thailand)
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- Reshma Pise
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- 10.21227/m05g-mq78
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Abstract
Mosquito bites result in the deaths of more than 1 million people every year. Certain species of mosquitos like Aedes are the main vector of arboviruses that cause Dengue, Malaria and Yellow fever. Image based mosquito species classification can be helpful to implement strategies to prevent the spread of mosquito borne disease. Automated mosquito species classification can aid in laborious and time consuming task of entomologists besides enhancing accuracy.
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The dataset consists of images of two species of mosquitoes namely Aedes and Culex .
There are 810 images of Aedes and 594 images of Culex class.