A New Way to Identify Mastitis in Cows Using Artificial Intelligence
Mastitis is a disease that is considered an obstacle in dairy farming. Some methods of diagnosing mastitis have been used effectively over the years, but with an associated relative cost that reduces the producer’s profit. In this context, this sector needs tools that offer an early, safe, and non-i...
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| author | Rodes Angelo Batista da Silva Héliton Pandorfi Filipe Rolim Cordeiro Rodrigo Gabriel Ferreira Soares Victor Wanderley Costa de Medeiros Gledson Luiz Pontes de Almeida José Antonio Delfino Barbosa Filho Gabriel Thales Barboza Marinho Marcos Vinícius da Silva |
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| description | Mastitis is a disease that is considered an obstacle in dairy farming. Some methods of diagnosing mastitis have been used effectively over the years, but with an associated relative cost that reduces the producer’s profit. In this context, this sector needs tools that offer an early, safe, and non-invasive diagnosis and that direct the producer to apply resources to confirm the clinical picture, minimizing the cost of monitoring the herd. The objective of this study was to develop a predictive methodology based on sequential knowledge transfer for the automatic detection of bovine subclinical mastitis using computer vision. The image bank used in this research consisted of 165 images, each with a resolution of 360 × 360 pixels, sourced from a database of 55 animals diagnosed with subclinical mastitis, all of which were not exhibiting clinical symptoms at the time of imaging. The images utilized in the sequential learning transfer were those of MammoTherm, which is used for the detection of breast cancer in women. The optimized model demonstrated the most optimal network performance, achieving 92.1% accuracy, in comparison to the model with manual search (86.1%). The proposed predictive methodologies, based on knowledge transfer, were effective in accurately classifying the images. This significantly enhanced the automatic detection of both healthy animals and those diagnosed with subclinical mastitis using thermal images of the udders of dairy cows. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-eb94861e20414c8ab63015516c324b102024-12-27T14:03:38ZengMDPI AGAgriEngineering2624-74022024-11-01644220423210.3390/agriengineering6040237A New Way to Identify Mastitis in Cows Using Artificial IntelligenceRodes Angelo Batista da Silva0Héliton Pandorfi1Filipe Rolim Cordeiro2Rodrigo Gabriel Ferreira Soares3Victor Wanderley Costa de Medeiros4Gledson Luiz Pontes de Almeida5José Antonio Delfino Barbosa Filho6Gabriel Thales Barboza Marinho7Marcos Vinícius da Silva8Department of Agricultural Engineering, Rural Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife 52171-900, PE, BrazilDepartment of Agricultural Engineering, Rural Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife 52171-900, PE, BrazilDepartment of Computing, Rural Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife 52171-900, PE, BrazilDepartment of Statistics and Informatic, Rural Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife 52171-900, PE, BrazilDepartment of Statistics and Informatic, Rural Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife 52171-900, PE, BrazilDepartment of Agricultural Engineering, Rural Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife 52171-900, PE, BrazilDepartment of Agricultural Engineering, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza 60020-181, CE, BrazilDepartment of Agricultural Engineering, Rural Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife 52171-900, PE, BrazilDepartment of Agricultural Engineering, Rural Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife 52171-900, PE, BrazilMastitis is a disease that is considered an obstacle in dairy farming. Some methods of diagnosing mastitis have been used effectively over the years, but with an associated relative cost that reduces the producer’s profit. In this context, this sector needs tools that offer an early, safe, and non-invasive diagnosis and that direct the producer to apply resources to confirm the clinical picture, minimizing the cost of monitoring the herd. The objective of this study was to develop a predictive methodology based on sequential knowledge transfer for the automatic detection of bovine subclinical mastitis using computer vision. The image bank used in this research consisted of 165 images, each with a resolution of 360 × 360 pixels, sourced from a database of 55 animals diagnosed with subclinical mastitis, all of which were not exhibiting clinical symptoms at the time of imaging. The images utilized in the sequential learning transfer were those of MammoTherm, which is used for the detection of breast cancer in women. The optimized model demonstrated the most optimal network performance, achieving 92.1% accuracy, in comparison to the model with manual search (86.1%). The proposed predictive methodologies, based on knowledge transfer, were effective in accurately classifying the images. This significantly enhanced the automatic detection of both healthy animals and those diagnosed with subclinical mastitis using thermal images of the udders of dairy cows.https://www.mdpi.com/2624-7402/6/4/237image analysisdairy cattleconvolutional neural networkinfrared thermography |
| spellingShingle | Rodes Angelo Batista da Silva Héliton Pandorfi Filipe Rolim Cordeiro Rodrigo Gabriel Ferreira Soares Victor Wanderley Costa de Medeiros Gledson Luiz Pontes de Almeida José Antonio Delfino Barbosa Filho Gabriel Thales Barboza Marinho Marcos Vinícius da Silva A New Way to Identify Mastitis in Cows Using Artificial Intelligence AgriEngineering image analysis dairy cattle convolutional neural network infrared thermography |
| title | A New Way to Identify Mastitis in Cows Using Artificial Intelligence |
| title_full | A New Way to Identify Mastitis in Cows Using Artificial Intelligence |
| title_fullStr | A New Way to Identify Mastitis in Cows Using Artificial Intelligence |
| title_full_unstemmed | A New Way to Identify Mastitis in Cows Using Artificial Intelligence |
| title_short | A New Way to Identify Mastitis in Cows Using Artificial Intelligence |
| title_sort | new way to identify mastitis in cows using artificial intelligence |
| topic | image analysis dairy cattle convolutional neural network infrared thermography |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2624-7402/6/4/237 |
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