Infected mosquito detection system using spectral analysis

Abstract

Considering that an accurate detection of infected mosquitos may directly avoid the propagation of mosquito-borne disease; in this paper, we propose a detection system of infected mosquitos by Dengue virus type II, that uses seven spectral feature measures, which are applied to the spectrogram estimated from wingbeat signal emitted by mosquitos flight. To evaluate the proposed system, we construct our own dataset with 20 infected Aedes aegypti by Dengue and 20 healthy ones. Seven spectral analysis methods, such as Spectral Rolloff, Spectral Centroide, etc., are applied to the spectrogram obtained by using the Short Time Fourier Transform (STFT) to generate feature vectors with 15 elements. These are feed into common machine learning techniques, such as Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) and Logistic Regression to detect the infected mosquitos differentiating form the healthy ones. Evaluation results show that, the best detection accuracy (84.32) is provided by the KNN with K3.