Neural detection of mastitis from dairy herd improvement records

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1063-1071

  Yang, X Z ^a   Lacroix, R ^a   Wade, K M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Bovine mastitis; Detection; Test day records

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0033169159     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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