РАЗРАБОТКА МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКОЙ МОДЕЛИ ОПРЕДЕЛЕНИЯ СОСТОЯНИЯ КОПЫТ КРУПНОГО РОГАТОГО СКОТА НА ОСНОВЕ ПРОФИЛЕЙ ТЕРМОГРАММ

Abstract

Inflammation in the cow hooves leads to a decrease in milk yield and may cause early culling of animals. Early diagnosis of the disease provides a reduction in the cost of treatment, allows maintaining the health and milk production of animals. The use of infrared thermography to determine the temperature of cattle limbs is a fast and non-invasive way to obtain reliable information about the animal’s health. To develop a mathematical model for determining the state of cattle limbs based on the profiles of hoof thermograms, the authors processed the data of 20 cows of the Yaroslavl breed, which are on the 2nd-4th lactation, with a lactation period ranging between months 1 and 7. The data array was formed using a Guide C400M thermal imager in the IR range. Data on the physiological state of cattle were entered into the Matlab R2019b program. For color gradation, the RGB color space was selected. The presented mathematical model for processing the profile of thermograms makes it possible to collect information on the spatial and temporal dynamics of cattle hoof temperatures by thermophysiological categories. When determining the state of the limbs, the areas of spatio-temporal distribution of temperature in the hoof are identified in the form of a transformed segmentation profile of the thermogram into a matrix, where RGB is assigned to the pixels from each fragment of the area, indicating a certain temperature. Exceeding the values R > 230, G > 103, B < 0 symbolizes a temperature above 40°C and means the presence of inflammation in the hoof. The developed algorithm will allow a farm veterinarian to automatically receive information about the state of the hooves of each cow, determine the focus of inflammation, its location, and diagnose the disease.