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Autori principali: García-Vico, Ángel Miguel, Seker, Huseyin, Afzal, Muhammad
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00806
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author García-Vico, Ángel Miguel
Seker, Huseyin
Afzal, Muhammad
author_facet García-Vico, Ángel Miguel
Seker, Huseyin
Afzal, Muhammad
contents Coccidiosis, a disease caused by the Eimeria parasite, represents a major threat to the poultry and rabbit industries, demanding rapid and accurate diagnostic tools. While deep learning models offer high precision, their significant energy consumption limits their deployment in resource-constrained environments. This paper introduces a novel two-stage Spiking Neural Network (SNN) architecture, where a pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network is first converted into a spiking feature extractor and then coupled with a lightweight, unsupervised SNN classifier trained with Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP). The proposed model sets a new state-of-the-art, achieving 98.32\% accuracy in Eimeria classification. Remarkably, this performance is accomplished with a significant reduction in energy consumption, showing an improvement of more than 223 times compared to its traditional ANN counterpart. This work demonstrates a powerful synergy between high accuracy and extreme energy efficiency, paving the way for autonomous, low-power diagnostic systems on neuromorphic hardware.
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spellingShingle Energy-Efficient Eimeria Parasite Detection Using a Two-Stage Spiking Neural Network Architecture
García-Vico, Ángel Miguel
Seker, Huseyin
Afzal, Muhammad
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Machine Learning
Coccidiosis, a disease caused by the Eimeria parasite, represents a major threat to the poultry and rabbit industries, demanding rapid and accurate diagnostic tools. While deep learning models offer high precision, their significant energy consumption limits their deployment in resource-constrained environments. This paper introduces a novel two-stage Spiking Neural Network (SNN) architecture, where a pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network is first converted into a spiking feature extractor and then coupled with a lightweight, unsupervised SNN classifier trained with Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP). The proposed model sets a new state-of-the-art, achieving 98.32\% accuracy in Eimeria classification. Remarkably, this performance is accomplished with a significant reduction in energy consumption, showing an improvement of more than 223 times compared to its traditional ANN counterpart. This work demonstrates a powerful synergy between high accuracy and extreme energy efficiency, paving the way for autonomous, low-power diagnostic systems on neuromorphic hardware.
title Energy-Efficient Eimeria Parasite Detection Using a Two-Stage Spiking Neural Network Architecture
topic Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00806