Utilization of EfficientNet-B0 to Identify Oncomelania Hupensis Lindoensis as a Schistosomiasis Host

Schistosomiasis caused by the Schistosoma japonicum worm is a significant health problem in Indonesia, especially in endemic areas such as the Napu Plateau and Bada Plateau. The main problem in controlling this disease is the difficulty in rapid and accurate identification of Oncomelania hupensis lindoensis snails as intermediate hosts of the parasite. This research aims to develop an artificial intelligence-based system that can efficiently identify the snail species. The stages of this research include collecting snail image data from the Central Sulawesi Provincial Health Office, consisting of 2100 images covering seven snail species, then processed through preprocessing and augmentation stages. The model applied was EfficientNet-B0. The results showed that the EfficientNet-B0 model achieved 98.80% training accuracy and 98.33% validation accuracy. Confusion matrix testing showed good performance, with an accuracy of 98% and for the species Oncomelania hupensis lindoensis had a recall of 93%, precision of 100%, F1-score of 97%, and the resulting AUC value of 99.7%. This research successfully developed an efficient identification system, which is expected to help health surveillance personnel in accelerating the identification process of schistosomiasis intermediate hosts.