E-Nose Identification of Milk Somatic Cell Count
Abstract
Mastitis is a common disease among dairy animals which causes serious economic losses. It can be diagnosed via diverse clinical findings, while milk somatic cell count (SCC) is accepted as a key indicator. However, determination of SCC with traditional methods is time consuming and laborious. This paper focuses on the ability of electronic nose (e-nose) system containing 12 different metal oxide sensors (MOS) to discriminate milks with somatic cell counts (SCC) above a threshold value. Milk samples were collected from dairy farms around Biga district of Çanakkale province, Turkey. Forty-six samples were analyzed using standard protocols in laboratory, then exposed to DiagNose II e-nose system. Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) was used to discriminate between Non-Mastitic (N-M) / Mastitic (M) samples depending on sensor responses. Results showed that 8 of 12 sensors were responded to milk samples. Thus, performances of several ANNs models with different topologies were tested using 8 sensor responses. ANNs was trained using 28 samples, and remaining 18 samples were used in validation step. Among tested models, the results of the lowest overall errors for training and validation steps were found to be 35.71 % and 38.89 % respectively. To improve the performance, Principal Components Analysis (PCA) performed for dimension reduction and three components were selected to be included in ANNs model instead of 8 sensors. Performing of PCA prior to ANNs provided decreased overall errors for training (10.7 %) and validation (0 %). However, the actual performance of the system should be tested using new dataset.
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Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
Engineering
Journal Section
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Publication Date
May 27, 2016
Submission Date
February 23, 2016
Acceptance Date
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Year 2016 Volume: 2 Number: 1