USF’s Ryan Carney and Sriram Chellappan are part of an NIH-funded effort to establish an International Center for Excellence for Malaria Research in Africa. The duo will lead the project’s image-driven mosquito surveillance efforts by training local scientists to use mosquitodashboard.org, a tool they developed to integrate hundreds of thousands of mosquito observations from various platforms into an interactive, real-time data portal, using photos people upload from their smartphones.
“We are the only team that we know of globally that can successfully enable anatomy-based classification from a single photo to identify mosquitoes,” says Chellappan. The new funding will allow the team to refine their algorithms and add additional species for automated ide
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