Automatic cough detection for bovine respiratory disease in a calf house

Bovine Respiratory Disease &

Year in and year out, diseases of the respiratory system are a major cause of illness and death in cattle from 6 weeks to two years of age. Sadly, this is as true today as it was 30 years ago despite development of new and improved vaccines, new broad spectrum antibiotics, and increased fundamental knowledge as to the cause of disease. WHY? I don‟t have the answer and I doubt if anyone does. As...

Bovine Respiratory Disease

In this session we will take an evidence-based medicine approach to ancillary therapy of bovine respiratory disease, bovine toxic mastitis, bovine neonatal enteric disease, and retained placenta/metritis. The literature reviewed here is not presented as being allinclusive, but rather as a summary of many commonly cited articles on these subjects. The citations are primarily peer reviewed, but s...

Sensor-based System for Automatic Cough Detection and Classification

Cough detection and classification present necessary tools for the evaluation of pathology severity in chronic illnesses. In literature, several approaches have been proposed for this aim. The latter presented a relative success since none of them allow a standardized exploitation and interpretation of sensors results in order to provide an efficient cough detection and classification. This pap...

Calf respiratory disease and pen microenvironments in naturally ventilated calf barns in winter.

Relationships between air quality, a variety of environmental risk factors, and calf respiratory health were studied in 13 naturally ventilated calf barns during winter. A minimum of 12 preweaned calves were randomly selected and scored for the presence of respiratory disease in each barn. An air sampling device was used to determine airborne bacteria colony-forming units per cubic meter (cfu/m...

Isolation and characterization of a bovine herpesvirus 3 From cases of calf pneumonia in Iran