Cow gait scores and kinematic gait data: Can people see gait irregularities?

Animal Welfare

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 433-439

  Van Nuffel, A ^a,b   Sprenger, M ^b   Tuyttens, F A M ^b   Maertens, W ^b  

^a Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research ^*  (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Automatic detection; Dairy cows; Gait score; Kinematic gait data; Lameness

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ANIMAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; FEMALE; GAIT; KINEMATICS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; VIDEORECORDING; VISION;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 70449631443     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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