Scoring of swine lung images: a comparison between a computer vision system and human evaluators

Today, we are bringing you a paper recently published in Veterinary Research. This collaboration between the MycoLab at the University of Minnesota, Texas A&M, HIPRA Laboratories, and the University of Barcelona aimed at comparing scoring of cranioventral pulmonary consolidation by computer vision system and by a human evaluator.

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AI brings 30 years of data to the real world

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Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus impacts as much as half of all swine breeding farms in the United States. It’s one of the most costly issues the swine industry faces. The virus now costs the U.S. pork industry $1.2 billion per year in lost production, an 80-percent increase in the last decade. 

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Summary: The evaluation of an artificial intelligence system for estrus detection in sows

This is our Friday rubric: every week a new Science Page from the Bob Morrison’s Swine Health Monitoring Project. The previous editions of the science page are available on our website.

In this week’s Science Page, researchers Steven Verhoeven, Ilias Chantziaras, Elise Bernaerdt , Michel Loicq , Ludo Verhoeven and Dominiek Maes share the results of a study done on the accuracy of estrus detectus using AI technology on three commercial Belgian farms.

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