Applied Sciences,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
15(1), P. 136 - 136
Published: Dec. 27, 2024
Detecting
dead
chickens
in
broiler
farms
is
critical
for
maintaining
animal
welfare
and
preventing
disease
outbreaks.
This
study
presents
an
automated
system
that
leverages
CCTV
footage
to
detect
chickens,
utilizing
a
two-step
approach
improve
detection
accuracy
efficiency.
First,
stationary
regions
the
footage—likely
representing
chickens—are
identified.
Then,
deep
learning
classifier,
enhanced
through
knowledge
distillation,
confirms
whether
detected
object
indeed
chicken.
EfficientNet-B0
employed
as
teacher
model,
while
DeiT-Tiny
functions
student
balancing
high
computational
A
dynamic
frame
selection
strategy
optimizes
resource
usage
by
adjusting
monitoring
intervals
based
on
chickens’
age,
ensuring
real-time
performance
resource-constrained
environments.
method
addresses
key
challenges
such
lack
of
explicit
annotations
along
with
common
farm
issues
like
lighting
variations,
occlusions,
cluttered
backgrounds,
chicken
growth,
camera
distortions.
The
experimental
results
demonstrate
validation
accuracies
99.3%
model
98.7%
significant
reductions
demands.
system’s
robustness
scalability
make
it
suitable
large-scale
deployment,
minimizing
need
labor-intensive
manual
inspections.
Future
work
will
explore
integrating
methods
incorporate
temporal
attention
mechanisms
removal
processes.
Materials,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
18(1), P. 139 - 139
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
The
evaluation
of
the
mechanical
performance
fly
ash-recycled
mortar
(FARM)
is
a
necessary
condition
to
ensure
efficient
utilization
recycled
fine
aggregates.
This
article
describes
design
nine
mix
proportions
FARMs
with
low
water/cement
ratio
and
screens
six
reasonable
flowability.
compressive
strengths
were
tested,
influence
(w/c)
age
on
strength
was
analyzed.
Meanwhile,
backpropagation
neural
network
(BPNN)
model
optimized
by
grey
wolf
optimizer
(GWO),
namely
GWO-BPNN
model,
established
predict
FARM.
input
layer
consisted
w/c,
cement/sand
ratio,
water
reducer,
age,
ash
content,
while
output
strength.
data
set
150
sets
from
this
existing
research
in
literature,
which
70%
used
for
training
30%
validation.
results
show
that
compared
traditional
BPNN,
coefficient
determination
(R2)
increases
0.85
0.93,
mean
squared
error
(MSE)
decreases
0.018
0.015.
convergence
iterations
validation
decrease
108
65.
indicates
GWO
improved
prediction
accuracy
computational
efficiency
BPNN.
characteristic
heat,
kernel
density
estimation,
scatter
matrix,
SHAP
value
all
indicated
w/c
strongly
negatively
correlated
strength,
sand/cement
positively
However,
relationship
between
contents
ash,
not
obvious.
Animals,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
15(8), P. 1114 - 1114
Published: April 11, 2025
Poultry
body
temperature
is
closely
related
to
their
metabolism
and
vital
activities,
which
can
indicate
physiological
status
health.
Therefore,
monitoring
these
changes
by
analyzing
thermal
images
help
in
the
early
accurate
diagnosis
of
diseases
using
a
non-destructive
method.
On
other
hand,
it
very
important
state
part
bird
has
greatest
effect
on
disease.
This
not
only
speeds
up
process
but
also
determines
an
index
for
animal
pathologists.
In
this
study,
intelligent
algorithm
was
presented
with
aim
classification
two
diseases,
Avian
influenza
Newcastle
disease,
hours
disease
transmission.
For
purpose,
three
different
models
were
developed
based
images,
including:
original
background
removal,
head
legs
chicken
separated
YOLO-v8
model.
Then,
features
extracted
from
including
texture
color,
evaluated
all
support
vector
machine
(SVM)
classifier.
Also,
most
effective
introduced
researchers
Relief
feature
selection
algorithm.
The
results
without
chickens
75.89,
83.93,
92.48%,
respectively,
83.04,
91.52,
94.20%
respectively.
model
showed
ability
diagnose
at
8
h
after
infection
accuracy
more
than
90%.
show
that
contribution
texture-related
greater
poultry
diseases.
focusing
feet
areas
will
increase
accuracy,
allows
real
time
stages
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
8
Published: May 13, 2025
This
review
provides
a
thorough
and
organized
overview
of
machine
learning
(ML)
applications
in
predicting
heart
disease,
covering
technological
advancements,
challenges,
future
prospects.
As
cardiovascular
diseases
(CVDs)
are
the
leading
cause
global
mortality,
there
is
an
urgent
demand
for
early
precise
diagnostic
tools.
ML
models
hold
considerable
potential
by
utilizing
large-scale
healthcare
data
to
enhance
predictive
diagnostics.
To
systematically
investigate
this
field,
literature
into
five
thematic
categories
such
as
“Heart
Disease
Detection
Diagnostics,”
“Machine
Learning
Models
Algorithms
Healthcare,”
“Feature
Engineering
Optimization
Techniques,”
“Emerging
Technologies
“Applications
AI
Across
Diseases
Conditions.”
The
incorporates
performance
benchmarking
various
models,
highlighting
that
hybrid
deep
(DL)
frameworks,
e.g.,
convolutional
neural
network-long
short-term
memory
(CNN-LSTM)
consistently
outperform
traditional
terms
sensitivity,
specificity,
area
under
curve
(AUC).
Several
real-world
case
studies
presented
demonstrate
successful
deployment
clinical
wearable
settings.
showcases
progression
approaches
from
classifiers
DL
structures
federated
(FL)
frameworks.
It
also
discusses
ethical
issues,
dataset
limitations,
model
transparency.
conclusions
provide
important
insights
development
artificial
intelligence
(AI)
powered,
clinically
applicable
disease
prediction
systems.
E3S Web of Conferences,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
564, P. 11010 - 11010
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
The
population
living
in
cities
needs
a
variety
of
urban
services,
such
as
solid
waste
management,
sewage,
and
water
supply.
majority
communities
dispose
their
open
dumps
that
are
not
properly
lined,
which
has
an
impact
on
the
land,
water,
air
quality.
Out
fifteen
largest
states
india,
Tamil
Nadu
elevated
rate
urbanisation.
is
now
state
nation
with
greatest
urbanization
nearly
forty-four
percent
according
to
2011
Census.
Nonetheless,
influence
leachate
percolation
was
main
focus
this
investigation.
Samples
were
gathered
from
city’s
environs
disposal
site.
then
divided
age.
It
noted
drinking
had
adverse
effect
health
those
close
dumpsite.
determined
ground
tainted
unsuitable
for
residential
usage,
including
drinking.