Chicken meat production in organic systems involves free-range access where animals can express foraging and locomotor behaviours. These behaviours may promote outdoor feed intake, but at the same time energy expenditure when exploring the outdoor area. More generally, the relationship of range use with metabolism, welfare including health, growth performance and meat quality needs to be better understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study explores the application of Line-field Confocal Optical Coherence Tomography (LC-OCT) imaging coupled with artificial intelligence (AI)-based algorithms to investigate atopic dermatitis (AD), a common inflammatory dermatosis.
Materials And Methods: AD acute and chronic lesions (ADL) were compared to clinically healthy-looking skin (ADNL). LC-OCT was used noninvasively and in real-time to image the skin of AD patients during flare-ups and monitor remissions under topical steroid treatment for 2 weeks.