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A high-throughput study of visceral organs in CT-scanned pigs.
Scientific reports - 1 Jun 2022
Nordbø Øyvind, Sagevik Rune, Kongsro Jørgen, Mikkelsen Kevin, Gjuvsland Arne B, Gaustad Ann-Helen, Olsen Dan, Remme Espen W, Grindflek Eli
Abstract excerpt
It has been debated whether intensive selection for growth and carcass yield in pig breeding programmes can affect the size of internal organs, and thereby reduce the animal's ability to handle stress and increase the risk of sudden deaths. To explore the respiratory and circulatory system in pigs, a deep learning based computational pipeline was built to extract the size of lungs and hearts from CT-scan images....
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