@article{fdi:010057178,
  title = {{A} user-friendly software to easily count {A}nopheles egg batches},
  author = {{M}ollahosseini, {A}. and {R}ossignol, {M}. and {P}ennetier, {C}{\'e}dric and {C}ohuet, {A}nna and dos {A}njos, {A}. and {C}handre, {F}abrice and {S}hahbazkia, {H}. {R}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{B}ackground: {S}tudies on malaria vector ecology and development/evaluation of vector control strategies often require measures of mosquito life history traits. {A}ssessing the fecundity of malaria vectors can be carried out by counting eggs laid by {A}nopheles females. {H}owever, manually counting the eggs is time consuming, tedious, and error prone. {M}ethods: {I}n this paper we present a newly developed software for high precision automatic egg counting. {T}he software written in the {J}ava programming language proposes a user-friendly interface and a complete online manual. {I}t allows the inspection of results by the operator and includes proper tools for manual corrections. {T}he user can in fact correct any details on the acquired results by a mouse click. {T}ime saving is significant and errors due to loss of concentration are avoided. {R}esults: {T}he software was tested over 16 randomly chosen images from 2 different experiments. {T}he results show that the proposed automatic method produces results that are close to the ground truth. {C}onclusions: {T}he proposed approaches demonstrated a very high level of robustness. {T}he adoption of the proposed software package will save many hours of labor to the bench scientist. {T}he software needs no particular configuration and is freely available for download on: http://w3.ualg.pt/~hshah/eggcounter/.},
  keywords = {},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{P}arasites and {V}ectors},
  volume = {5},
  numero = {},
  pages = {122},
  ISSN = {1756-3305},
  year = {2012},
  DOI = {10.1186/1756-3305-5-122},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010057178},
}