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The HiveAnalyzer software supports evaluation of honey bee (apis mellifera) brood trials according to OECD 75 guideline. By its high degree of automation (automated honeycomb alignment, automated cell detection, and automated cell classification), the HiveAnalyzer highly facilitates brood stage assessment.
The software applies the visual analytics methodology combining the vast processing power of computers with the excellent recognition and reasoning capabilities of human experts. The HiveAnalyzer was designed and developed in close cooperation with a leading company in the area of semi-field honey bee trials.
Its workflow allows for rapid and efficient honey bee brood logging and analysis. Data export capabilities (PDF, JSON and CSV) allow for further analysis in external statistics software (such as SPSS, SAS, or MS Excel) and provide reports ready for QA. Various consistency checks and a modern graphical user interface contribute to the usability and user-friendliness of the software. The HiveAnalyzer is available for Windows 11.
Demonstration Videos
The HiveAnalyzer software supports rapid honey bee brood assessment according to OECD guidance document no. 75 by a five stage process.
Sample Aquisition
- Management of several comb images and metadata in a single project
- Automatic detection and extraction of brood trial labels
- Consistency and plausibility checks of the data
Sample Registration
- Automatic registration (alignment) of the honeycomb images
- Assessment of automatic registration confidence
- Computer-assisted manual image alignment also possible
Region of Interest
- Regions of interest (ROI) define the relevant area of the honeycomb
- Definition of arbitrary regions of interest
- Merging and splitting of regions
- Adaption of ROI to cells
Brood Recognition
- Automatic detection of cells on the honeycomb
- Manual insertion and deletion of cells possible
- Automatic recognition (classification) of the brood stage
- Manual annotation (classification) of brood stages possible
- Multiple coordinated views for rapid brood stage annotation
- Batch classification mode for automated processing of multiple honeycombs
- Class list view for visual validation
- Visualization of cell detection and classification confidence
Assessment
- Brood development view shows development stages of a cell side by side
- Various consistency checks enable early error detection
- PDF export of annotated cells as brood state list or in combination with cell images (for QA and GLP)
- CSV and JSON export of brood states for external processing (e.g., Excel, SAS, SPSS)
- Calculation of brood termination rate, brood and compensation indices
- Different statistics and evaluation visualizations
More Features
- Comprehensive settings system for simple customization of the software
- Full undo/redo capabilities
- Software is completely multi-threaded and utilizes recent CPU architectures
- Modern GUI (graphical user interface) that is designed to optimize the annotation process
- Automatic version checks keep the system up-to-date.
- Microsoft Windows 11
