Comparison of manual and automated body condition scoring of commercial dairy cattle
The AUT system failed to detect animals classified as underconditioned by the operators and underestimated the condition of cows classified as overconditioned by the operators. Currently, without improvements to the algorithm, the clinical usefulness of such an AUT system for body condition scoring is limited.
Authors
- Sophie A. Mahendran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2170-7112)
- Tom Angel
Institutions
- Royal Veterinary College (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Veterinary Record
- Published
- 2024-08-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.4535
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Reproductive Physiology in Livestock
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.84