{"id":516935,"date":"2024-08-20T11:12:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T14:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=516935"},"modified":"2024-08-20T11:12:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T14:12:43","slug":"artificial-intelligence-against-mosquitoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/artificial-intelligence-against-mosquitoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence against mosquitoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_516940\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-516940 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-ia-dengue-2024-04-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-ia-dengue-2024-04-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-ia-dengue-2024-04-800-250x189.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-ia-dengue-2024-04-800-700x529.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-ia-dengue-2024-04-800-120x91.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">LARANJEIRA, C. <em>et al<\/em>. <strong>medRxiv<\/strong>. 2023<\/span>Automated detection: green dots indicate higher risk<span class=\"media-credits\">LARANJEIRA, C. <em>et al<\/em>. <strong>medRxiv<\/strong>. 2023<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the battle between humans and the <em>Aedes aegypti <\/em>mosquito, which transmits dengue fever, a group from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) used AI to identify the insect\u2019s breeding grounds. \u201cWe are testing which has the greatest correlation with the existence of larvae in reality: aerial images obtained by a drone, or street view images,\u201d says computer scientist Camila Laranjeira, a PhD student being supervised by Jefersson Alex dos Santos at UFMG. The secret is to train computational models to recognize features that indicate the existence of breeding sites. In aerial images, the software looks for swimming pools, water tanks, or puddles; at street level, it uses a three-dimensional photography system to examine housing conditions. \u201cA dilapidated property tends to contain lots of rubble, where mosquitoes often breed.\u201d A case study across 200 blocks of Campinas, a city in the interior of S\u00e3o Paulo State, combined this data with information collected by surveillance agents and mosquito traps that confirm the locations of breeding sites. This part of the research was carried out in partnership with a group led by Francisco Chiaravalloti Neto, an epidemiologist from the School of Public Health at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (<em>Jornal da USP<\/em>, March 1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence helps identify breeding sites of the <em>Aedes aegypti<\/em> mosquito","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[260],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-516935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-public-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516952,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516935\/revisions\/516952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516935"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=516935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}