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Artificial intelligence: a new paradigm in the swine industry - Pig Progress

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Machine learning is one of the artificial intelligence models frequently used for modeling, prediction, and management of swine farming. Machine learning models mainly include algorithms of a decision tree, clustering, a support vector machine, and the Markov chain model focused on disease detection, behaviour recognition for postural classification, and sound detection of animals. The researchers from North Carolina State University and Smithfield Premium Genetics* demonstrated the application of machine learning algorithms to estimate body weight in growing pigs from feeding behaviour and feed intake data. Feed intake, feeder occupation time, and body weight information were collected from 655 pigs of 3 breeds (Duroc, Landrace, and Large White) from 75 to 166 days of age. 2 machine learning algorithms (long short-term memory network and random forest) were selected to forecast the body weight of pigs using 4 scenarios. Long short-term memory was used to accurately predict time series data due to its ability in learning and storing long term patterns in a sequence-dependent order and random forest approach was used as a representative algorithm in the machine learning space.