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基于热红外图像的奶牛乳区温度分布与乳房炎识别方法
引用本文:郭艳娇, 杨圣慧, 迟宇, 吴聪明, 许红岩, 沈建忠, 郑永军. 基于热红外图像的奶牛乳区温度分布与乳房炎识别方法[J]. 农业工程学报, 2022, 38(2): 250-259. DOI: 10.11975/j.issn.1002-6819.2022.02.028
作者姓名:郭艳娇  杨圣慧  迟宇  吴聪明  许红岩  沈建忠  郑永军
作者单位:中国农业大学工学院,北京 100083;中国农业大学动物医学院,动物源食品安全检测技术北京市重点实验室,北京 100193;内蒙古伊利实业集团股份有限公司,呼和浩特 010110;中国农业大学工学院,北京 100083;现代农业装备与设施教育部工程研究中心,北京 100083
基金项目:国家奶牛产业技术体系(CARS-36)
摘    要:乳房炎是影响奶牛健康与牛奶品质的主要疾病之一,是健康养殖的监控重点,该研究提出了一种基于热红外图像的奶牛乳区温度分布测量与乳房炎识别方法。通过现场采集的健康与患病共189头荷斯坦奶牛挤奶前后的后乳区热红外图像样本,提出了左右后乳区自动识别方法,确定了后乳区的特征区域及识别乳房炎的数据最佳采集时间为挤奶前。通过线剖法获取奶牛特征区域内的温度值点,建立乳区温度分布拟合方程,经分析发现91.9%的健康奶牛乳区温度拟合线的斜率小于0,斜率范围为-0.083~-0.001;92.1%的患病奶牛乳区温度拟合线的斜率大于0,斜率范围为0.001~0.093,可根据温度拟合线斜率的正负实现奶牛乳房炎的自动识别。与加州乳房炎检测(California Mastitis Test,CMT)法对比试验,结果表明:健康奶牛左右后乳区的识别准确率均值为76%,患病奶牛的左右后乳区识别准确率均值为75%。该研究提出的方法可为牧场奶牛健康管理与乳房炎的快速在线识别提供参考。

关 键 词:图像识别  温度  红外热成像  奶牛乳房炎  温度分析
收稿时间:2021-09-16
修稿时间:2022-01-07

Recognizing mastitis using temperature distribution from thermal infrared images in cow udder regions
Guo Yanjiao, Yang Shenghui, Chi Yu, Wu Congming, Xu Hongyan, Shen Jianzhong, Zheng Yongjun. Recognizing mastitis using temperature distribution from thermal infrared images in cow udder regions[J]. Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering (Transactions of the CSAE), 2022, 38(2): 250-259. DOI: 10.11975/j.issn.1002-6819.2022.02.028
Authors:Guo Yanjiao  Yang Shenghui  Chi Yu  Wu Congming  Xu Hongyan  Shen Jianzhong  Zheng Yongjun
Affiliation:1.College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China;2.Beijing Key Laboratory of Detection Technology for Animal Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China;3.Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co Ltd, Hohhot 010110, China;4.Modern Agricultural Equipment and Facilities Engineering Research Center, Beijing 100083, China
Abstract:Abstract: Mastitis is one of the most common infectious diseaases resulting in the persistent and inflammatory response to the udder tissue of the dairy cow. This infection of microorganisms has posed a great threat to the milk yield, quality, and even be fatal to the cow. The severe losses have significantly been triggered to hinder the sustainable development of the dairy farming industry. Therefore, it is highly urgent to promptly and accurately monitor the udder health of cows. In this study, a new mastitis identification was presented to real-time measure the temperature distribution in the udder region of cows using a thermal infrared imaging system. A sample of 189 Holstein cows was collected in sites. A California Mastitis Test (CMT) was performed on the 142 infected and 47 uninfected cows. The mammary gland and the mammary gland pool areas were selected as the feature regions of interest (ROI), due to the anatomical structure of the udder and external factors. A regional temperature measurement toolbox of AnalyzIR was utilized to acquire the average, the minimum, and the maximum temperature of the feature ROI. An optimal time before milking was determined to collect the data during mastitis identification. A single-factor analysis of variance was also conducted to evaluate the temperature difference before and after milking, and the temperature measurement on both uninfected and infected cows. Meanwhile, the temperature differences demonstrated that the temperature of the mammary gland pool area in the uninfected cows was much lower than that of the mammary gland area, whereas, there was a much higher temperature reading of the mammary gland pool area in the infected cows, compared with the mammary gland area. Furthermore, a lines section was employed to divide the left and right udder regions of cows, particularly ranging from the mammal gland area to the mammal gland pool area. Every pixel on the section of the lines corresponded to a specific temperature value. These values were then acquired to find out the distribution tendency. As such, the temperature values on the section of the lines were well fitted to statistically analyze the associated slopes. The slope analysis revealed that 91.9% of healthy cows shared a slope of less than 0, with a slope range of -0.082 61 to -0.001 04, whereas, 92.1% of diseased cows presented a slope of greater than 0, with the values ranging from 0.000 76 to 0.092 99. Thus, automatic identification of mastitis in cows was achieved using the positive or negative slope of the temperature fitted lines. Three segmentations of gray-scale threshold were selected to calculate the rates of detection, false, and accuracy during imaging processing, including the fixed threshold, the iterative, and the OTSU algorithm. The fixed threshold was then determined as the optimized algorithm to recognize the right or left udder. Correspondingly, the dairy cow mastitis was identified to combine with the line section and the positive or negative of the fitting line slopes. In addition, the thermal infrared images of the 139 cows were collected before and after the milking happened. A comparison was then made on the measurement and automatically diagnostic data of CMT. It was found that the average diagnostic accuracies were 76% and 75%, respectively, under the left and right milk areas of uninfected and infected dairy cows. Finally, the proposed recognition can be widely expected to effectively identify dairy cow mastitis in real applications. The finding can offer a promising potential framework to monitor cow mastitis in a contactless manner.
Keywords:image identification   temperature   infrared thermal imaging   cow mastitis   temperature analysis
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