Open AccessArticle
The Use of Multilayer Perceptron Artificial Neural Networks to Detect Dairy Cows at Risk of Ketosis
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Department of Animal Reproduction, Anatomy and Genomics, Faculty of Animal Science, University of Agriculture in Krakow, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
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Department of Genetics, Animal Breeding and Ethology, Faculty of Animal Science, University of Agriculture in Krakow, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
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Academic Editors: Donald C Beitz and Kiro Petrovski
Received: 12 November 2021
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Revised: 22 January 2022
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Accepted: 26 January 2022
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Published: 29 January 2022
Simple Summary
Ketosis is a serious metabolic disease in high-yield dairy cows, that affects productive herds throughout the world. Subclinical ketosis is one of the most dominant metabolic disorders in dairy herds during early lactation, so early detection and prevention are important for both economic and animal welfare reasons. Neural networks, which offer a high degree of accuracy in predicting various phenomena and processes where there is no clear causal correlation or there are no rules that allow the establishment of a logical cause-and-effect relationship, can be used to address problems related to prediction, classification, or control. A Multi-Layer perceptron (MLP) is a feedforward artificial neural network model that takes input data for a set of proper output. This study investigated the performance of four algorithms used to train MLP networks. The experimental results demonstrate that the MLP network model improved the accuracy of process recognition of subclinical ketosis in dairy cows. The received artificial model’s results were saved in the predictive model markup language (PMML) and can be used to describe the learning set, the algorithm used in the data mining application and related information.