Collaborative project: Use of innovative data analysis and artificial intelligence for udder health management, incorporating the latest research approaches in bulk milk analysis and image-based animal identification – subproject A (IQexpert)

A complex decision tree for selective dry cow therapy was developed and validated in 20 practical farms. It has been digitized and integrated into the prototype of an AI expert system. For the farm- and cow-specific recommendation for selective dry cow therapy, the expert system networks with the relevant databases and communicates with the user to consider further information. The decisive criteria for the given recommendation can be viewed in an archive.The individual cell count of the genotyped cows was determined weekly from the tank milk on the farms using the GenoCells® method. The DNA markers for six mastitis pathogens and three antibiotic resistance genes are placed on the GenoCells® prototype chip. The inclusion of this procedure in the decision tree is being examined.