Radar-based evaluation of lameness detection in ruminants: preliminary results

Francesco Fioranelli; Haobo Li; Julien Le Kernec; Valentina Busin; Nicholas Jonsson; George King; Martin Tomlinson; Lorenzo Viora

doi:10.1109/imbioc.2019.8777830

Radar-based evaluation of lameness detection in ruminants: preliminary results

Francesco Fioranelli (Lead / Corresponding author)
, Haobo Li
, Julien Le Kernec
, Valentina Busin
, Nicholas Jonsson
, George King
, Martin Tomlinson
, Lorenzo Viora

Biomedical Engineering

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Abstract

This paper presents preliminary results on using radar systems and micro-Doppler signatures to evaluate lameness in ruminants. Lameness is regarded as a major welfare and economic problem for animals such as cattle and sheep. As evaluation methods are typically based on time-consuming, subjective scoring by trained veterinary clinicians, there is scope for automatic methods that can improve repeatability and reliability. Our initial results on a relatively large sample of 51 dairy cows and 75 sheep show promising performance, with accuracy above 80% for cows and above 90% for sheep in the most favorable cases.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The IEEE MTT-S 2019 International Microwave Biomedical Conference
Subtitle of host publication	IMBioC 2019 proceedings
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	978-153867395-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/imbioc.2019.8777830
Publication status	Published - May 2019
Event	The IEEE MTT-S 2019 International Microwave Biomedical Conference - International conference hotel of Nanjing, Nanjing, China Duration: 6 May 2019 → 8 May 2019

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Conference	The IEEE MTT-S 2019 International Microwave Biomedical Conference
Abbreviated title	IMBioC 2019
Country/Territory	China
City	Nanjing
Period	6/05/19 → 8/05/19

Keywords

Lameness sensing
radar micro-Doppler
Spectrograms
Supervised learning
Veterinary radar applications

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Fioranelli, F, Li, H, Le Kernec, J, Busin, V, Jonsson, N, King, G, Tomlinson, M & Viora, L 2019, Radar-based evaluation of lameness detection in ruminants: preliminary results. in The IEEE MTT-S 2019 International Microwave Biomedical Conference : IMBioC 2019 proceedings., 8777830, IEEE, The IEEE MTT-S 2019 International Microwave Biomedical Conference, Nanjing, China, 6/05/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/imbioc.2019.8777830

Radar-based evaluation of lameness detection in ruminants: preliminary results. / Fioranelli, Francesco (Lead / Corresponding author); Li, Haobo; Le Kernec, Julien et al.
The IEEE MTT-S 2019 International Microwave Biomedical Conference : IMBioC 2019 proceedings. IEEE, 2019. 8777830.

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