Research Note: A deep learning method segments chicken keel bones from whole-body X-ray images

ABSTRACT: Most commercial laying hens suffer from sternum (keel) bone damage including deviations and fractures. X-raying hens, followed by segmenting and assessing the keel bone, is a key to automating the monitoring of keel bone condition. The aim of the current work is to train a deep learning mo...

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Main Authors: Moh Sallam, Samuel Coulbourn Flores, Dirk Jan de Koning, Martin Johnsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-11-01
Series:Poultry Science
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579124007934