Predicting Illness for a Sustainable Dairy Agriculture: Predicting and Explaining the Onset of Mastitis in Dairy Cows

no code implementations • 6 Jan 2021 • Cathal Ryan, Christophe Guéret, Donagh Berry, Medb Corcoran, Mark T. Keane, Brian Mac Namee

Mastitis is a billion dollar health problem for the modern dairy industry, with implications for antibiotic resistance.

Decision Making

Can We Detect Mastitis earlier than Farmers?

no code implementations • 5 Nov 2020 • Cathal Ryan, Christophe Guéret, Donagh Berry, Brian Mac Namee

The aim of this study was to build a modelling framework that would allow us to be able to detect mastitis infections before they would normally be found by farmers through the introduction of machine learning techniques.