Objective scoring of footpad dermatitis in broiler chickens using image segmentation and a deep learning approach: camera-based scoring system

• Main Authors: C. Kaewtapee, S. Thepparak, C. Rakangthong, C. Bunchasak, A. Supratak
• Other Authors: Kasetsart University
• Format: Article
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/73152
• Institution: Mahidol University

1. Footpad dermatitis (FPD) can be used as an important indicator of animal welfare and for economic evaluation; however, human scoring is subjective, biased and labour intensive. This paper proposes a novel deep learning approach that can automatically determine the severity of FPD based on images...