Selected Papers from 2023 IEEE International Workshop on Measurements and Applications in Veterinary and Animal Sciences

A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615).

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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Animals is based on the first IEEE International Workshop Onmeasurements and Applications in Veterinary and Animal Sciences 2023, organized by University of Napoli Federico II. Keynote speakers at the conference were Dr. Bernadette O’Brien, who focused on precision farming applied to a pasture grazing milk production system; Dr. Tomar Norton clarified how Precision Livestock Farming can enhance the sustainability of our livestock production systems; and Dr. João L. Saraiva gave a presentation entitled “Non-invasive indicators of fish welfare”. The workshop included 12 sessions, indicating the wide range of possible applications of smart technologies, and they were named as follows: Measurements in veterinary surgery and gynecology; Innovation and sustainability of PLF; New Advances in Animal Housing, Equipment and Manure Management Strategies for Minimizing Impacts; Rapid and low-cost technologies for large-scale phenotyping in livestock; Metrology in Food Control System; Measurement of animal welfare in livestock; Sustainable productivity and mitigation of environmental impact in livestock systems; From feed to food: assessment of quality, impact and welfare in animal production; IoT-Based innovative technologies for precision livestock farming; Enhancing Precision Animal Science with Big data and Genomics; Precision mini-livestock farming; and a General Session, which included a variety of different topics.

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Dr. Nicola Francesco Addeo
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Keywords

  • 2023 IEEE International Workshop
  • veterinary science
  • animal science
  • precision livestock farming
  • metrology

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Evaluation of Mud Worm (Polydora spp.) Infestation in Cupped (Crassostrea gigas) and Flat Oyster (Ostrea edulis) Broodstocks: Comparison between Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computed Tomography
by Livio Galosi, Fabrizio Dini, Marina C. T. Meligrana, Lorenzo Gennari, Elena Tamburini and Alessandra Roncarati
Animals 2024, 14(2), 242; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14020242 - 12 Jan 2024
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The Polichete worms of the genus Polydora are considered very destructive for oysters, excavating channels in their shell and inducing oysters to create mud blisters in response to the irritation, interfering with their physiology and ethology. The parasite also causes important economic damage [...] Read more.
The Polichete worms of the genus Polydora are considered very destructive for oysters, excavating channels in their shell and inducing oysters to create mud blisters in response to the irritation, interfering with their physiology and ethology. The parasite also causes important economic damage for oyster farmers, as products with a high degree of infestation cannot be commercialized. The present study aims to evaluate whether two non-invasive advanced diagnostic techniques, computed tomography scans (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), are suitable to show the alterations induced by this parasite on live Crassostrea gigas and Ostrea edulis oyster broodstocks. A CT scan is also able to identify small lesions in the shell during the first stage of infection. MRI allows for the visualization of the advanced status of the lesions when blisters occupy the inner surface of the shell and can impact the health status and the economic value of the mollusk. Both techniques resulted in satisfactory spatial resolution, and no motion artifacts were reported, thus enabling the authors to faithfully visualize in vivo the damage caused by the parasite. Full article
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