Skip to main content
Figure 4 | Veterinary Research

Figure 4

From: Research perspectives on animal health in the era of artificial intelligence

Figure 4

Identifying relevant strategies to control bovine paratuberculosis at a regional scale (adapted from [76]). Classically, identifying relevant strategies means defining them a priori and comparing them, e.g., by modelling. Only a small number of alternatives can be considered. If all alternatives are considered as in the figure, it results in a multitude of scenarios whose analysis becomes challenging. Here, each point corresponds to the epidemiological situation after 9 years of pathogen spread over a network of 12 500 dairy cattle herds for a given strategy (asterisk: no control). Initially, 10% of the animals are infected on average in 30% of the herds. The blue dots correspond to the most favourable strategies. Mobilizing AI approaches in such a framework, especially optimization under constraints, would facilitate the identification of relevant strategies by exploring the space of possibilities in a more targeted manner.

Back to article page