BCBC Conference 2020 - Werner Brand ’Deep learning and its application in livestock industry’

SRUC geneticist/programmer, Werner Brand presented at the British Cattle Breeders Club conference on ’Deep learning and its application in livestock industry’. Deep learning is a modern tool used to build powerful predictive equations from a wide range of data sources by creating artificial neural networks to simulate an animal brain. EGENES and SRUC have been successful in training deep learning models for application in the livestock industry. These include predicting pregnancy and TB status in dairy cow