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Keel bone fractures can affect up to 80% of laying hens, posing welfare and production problems. Therefore, genetic selection to reduce keel fractures is important. However, the lack of a reliable, automated, and heritable phenotypes for keel bones makes this a challenging task. The aim of this study was to (1) develop automated analyses of radiographic images to phenotype keel bones, and (2) investigate whether the proposed phenotypes are heritable and genetically correlated with the post-dissection scores of keel bone fractures and deviations. A total of 1051 laying hens (Bovans Brown and Lohmann Brown) from a commercial farm were x-rayed, followed by keel bone dissection and scoring for deviations and fractures. Furthermore, blood was sampled for genotyping using 50\u00a0K Illumina SNP chips. 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Estimates of genetic correlations of keel geometry with keel deviation and fractures ranged from -0.57 to 0.72.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Automated methods were developed for measuring keel bone radiopacity and geometry. Keel concave area was found to be a reliable and heritable phenotype that breeding companies can use to reduce keel deviations and fractures. These methods can also be adapted to measure other bones (e.g., tibiotarsal) or objects (e.g., eggs), allowing breeders to quickly compute phenotypes for keel, tibia, and egg size from the same radiographic image. 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