Commentary on Automatic identification of Chagas disease vectors using data mining and deep learning techniques

Ziba Parsons, Shadi Banitaan

Abstract: We appreciate Gurgel-Goncalves et al. for offering their insights and opinions on our research on the automatic identification of vectors for Chagas disease. Our reply will address the key points raised and provide clarification on the following topics: (1) expert supervision, (2) labeling of the dataset, (3) recognition of the results from benchmark methods, (4) quality of training images, and (5) balancing of data.