The HiveAnalyzer software supports rapid honey bee brood assessment according to OECD guidance document no. 75 by a five stage process:




In the following, we list the key features of the HiveAnalyzer system according to these stages:

  Sample Acquisition
  • 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

  Definition of 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

  Cell Detection and Annotation
  • Automatic detection of cells on the honeycomb
  • Manual insertion and deletion of cells possible
  • Automatic assessment (classification) of the brood stages
  • 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

  Evaluation and Export
  • 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 (ready for QA)
  • 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

  Miscellaneous 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 XP, Windows 7, and Windows 8 supported / optional: Linux support
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