Early Detection of Avian Diseases Based on Thermography and Artificial Intelligence

Author:

Sadeghi Mohammad1,Banakar Ahmad1ORCID,Minaei Saeid1,Orooji Mahdi2,Shoushtari Abdolhamid3,Li Guoming4ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Biosystems Engineering Department, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 14117-13116, Iran

2. Department of Medical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 14117-13116, Iran

3. Department of Poultry Disease, Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute, Karaj 31976-19751, Iran

4. Department of Poultry Science, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA

Abstract

Non-invasive measures have a critical role in precision livestock and poultry farming as they can reduce animal stress and provide continuous monitoring. Animal activity can reflect physical and mental states as well as health conditions. If any problems are detected, an early warning will be provided for necessary actions. The objective of this study was to identify avian diseases by using thermal-image processing and machine learning. Four groups of 14-day-old Ross 308 Broilers (20 birds per group) were used. Two groups were infected with one of the following diseases: Newcastle Disease (ND) and Avian Influenza (AI), and the other two were considered control groups. Thermal images were captured every 8 h and processed with MATLAB. After de-noising and removing the background, 23 statistical features were extracted, and the best features were selected using the improved distance evaluation method. Support vector machine (SVM) and artificial neural networks (ANN) were developed as classifiers. Results indicated that the former classifier outperformed the latter for disease classification. The Dempster–Shafer evidence theory was used as the data fusion stage if neither ANN nor SVM detected the diseases with acceptable accuracy. The final SVM-based framework achieved 97.2% and 100% accuracy for classifying AI and ND, respectively, within 24 h after virus infection. The proposed method is an innovative procedure for the timely identification of avian diseases to support early intervention.

Funder

University of Georgia

Iranian National Science Foundation

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

General Veterinary,Animal Science and Zoology

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