Dengue-Infected Mosquito Detection with Uncertainty Evaluation based on Monte Carlo Dropout

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dengue fever, infected mosquitoes, Long Short-Term Memoru, Monte Carlo dropout, uncertainty

Abstract

Considering Aedes mosquitoes are a principal vector of the Dengue virus causing, in the worst case, the death of infected people, accurate detection of infected Aedes mosquitoes is very important to prevent the further spread of the virus. In this paper, we propose a detection algorithm for infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes by Dengue Virus-2 using their wingbeat signals. The proposed algorithm uses Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) as a classifier of the input wingbeat signal into healthy mosquitoes and infected mosquitoes. All living beings, even if they are of the same species, have different characteristics depending on the season in which they are born, temperature, humidity, food, etc. This individual difference perhaps influences the level of infection, although it is fed by the same infected blood. Considering these differences between individuals, we introduce an uncertainty measure based on Monte-Carlo dropout. The proposed algorithm detects approximately 5% of uncertainty data from all input wingbeat signals in the test set and provides a classification accuracy of 94.87% without any uncertainty.

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Author Biographies

Israel Torres, Instituto Politecnico Nacional

Israel Torres was born in México. He received the B.S. degree in communications and electronic engineering with acoustic specialty in 2022 and Currently he courses M.S. degree in microelectronics Engineering both from Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) His principal research interest are: sound and image processing, AI, ML, RL, positional encoding, deep dream, LLM & MML

Mariko Nakano, Instituto Politecnico Nacional

Mariko Nakano received the bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The University of Electro Communication, Tokyo, in 1983 and 1985, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in science from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico, in 1999. She is currently a professor in the Graduate and Research Section, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico. Her research interests include image processing, information security, and machine learning. To date, she has supervised 20 doctoral theses and 72 master's theses.

Jorge Armando Cime-Castillo, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publico

Jorge Armando Cime Castillo earned his biologist degree in 2013, and his M. S. in 2005 from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, his PhD in Science from the Institute of Biomedical at UNAM 2014, he was a fellow of the National Council of Science and Technology at the National Institute of Public Health's Center. He has also completed research stays at the Institute of Science and Technology in Lille, France, and at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas in 2015. Currently he joined the National Institute of Public Health. And is a researcher in Medical Sciences and level I of the National System of Researchers Mexico (SNI)

Enrique Escamilla-Hernandez, Instituto Politecnico Nacional

Enrique Escamilla Hernández received his degree in Electronics Engineering from the UAM in Mexico City in 1997. Subsequently, in 2002 and 2006, he received his Master of Science degree in Microelectronics Engineering and his Ph.D. degree in Communications and Electronics, respectively, from the ESIME Culhuacan at IPN Mexico. In 2008, he joined the Graduate Studies and Research Section of the ESIME, Culhuacan, where he is currently a full-time professor. His research interests are in the fields of pattern recognition, digital signal processing, and electronic design

Osvaldo Lopez-Garcia, Instituto Politecnico Nacional

Osvaldo López García received his degree in communications and electronic engineering from Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN) in 2000. Beginning as professor of communication in Escuela Superior de Ingenieria Mecanica y Electrica (ESIME) Culhuacan in 2001, In 2005, head of dept. of material resources and in 2012 head of Graduate department. From 2019 until now he is head of Graduate Section of ESIME Culhuacann.

Humberto Lanz Mendoza, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publico

Cuahutemoc Juan Humberto Lanz Mendoza obtained a degree in biology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1985, a Master of Science in Immunology from the National School of Sciences of the National Polytechnic Institute in 1989, and a Doctor of Science in Immunology in 1992 from the same institution. He was a fellow of the National Council of Sciences and Technology (CONACYT). He completed postdoctoral studies at the University of Stockholm, at the Polytechnic School of Zurich (ETH) and at the Insect Research Center of the University of Arizona. He joined the National Institute of Public Health in 1998, where he is currently Director of the Area of Infection and Immunity, Level “F” Researcher, and Level III in the National System of Researchers.

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Published

2025-01-08

How to Cite

Torres, I., Nakano, M., Cime-Castillo, J. A., Escamilla-Hernandez, E., Lopez-Garcia, O., & Lanz Mendoza, H. (2025). Dengue-Infected Mosquito Detection with Uncertainty Evaluation based on Monte Carlo Dropout. IEEE Latin America Transactions, 23(2), 135–143. Retrieved from https://latamt.ieeer9.org/index.php/transactions/article/view/9221