An attempt at estrus detection in cattle by continuous measurements of ventral tail base surface temperature with supervised machine learning

• Main Authors: Shogo HIGAKI (Author), Hongyu DARHAN (Author), Chie SUZUKI (Author), Tomoko SUDA (Author), Reina SAKURAI (Author), Koji YOSHIOKA (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The Society for Reproduction and Development, 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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We aimed to determine the effectiveness of estrus detection based on continuous measurements of the ventral tail base surface temperature (ST) with supervised machine learning in cattle. ST data were obtained through 51 estrus cycles on 11 female cattle (six Holsteins and five Japanese Blacks) using...