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Nonetheless, employing contact thermometers for rectal temperature measurement proves to be time-intensive, labor-demanding, and hygienically suboptimal. Addressing the issues of minimal automation and temperature measurement accuracy in sow temperature monitoring, this study introduces an automatic temperature monitoring method for sows, utilizing a segmentation network amalgamating YOLOv5s and DeepLabv3+, complemented by an adaptive genetic algorithm-random forest (AGA-RF) regression algorithm. In developing the sow vulva segmenter, YOLOv5s was synergized with DeepLabv3+, and the CBAM attention mechanism and MobileNetv2 network were incorporated to ensure precise localization and expedited segmentation of the vulva region. Within the temperature prediction module, an optimized regression algorithm derived from the random forest algorithm facilitated the construction of a temperature inversion model, predicated upon environmental parameters and vulva temperature, for the rectal temperature prediction in sows. Testing revealed that vulvar segmentation IoU was 91.50%, while the predicted MSE, MAE, and R2 for rectal temperature were 0.114 \u00b0C, 0.191 \u00b0C, and 0.845, respectively. The automatic sow temperature monitoring method proposed herein demonstrates substantial reliability and practicality, facilitating an autonomous sow temperature monitoring.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23229128","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,13]],"date-time":"2023-11-13T02:46:47Z","timestamp":1699843607000},"page":"9128","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Instance Segmentation and Ensemble Learning for Automatic Temperature Detection in Multiparous Sows"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Hongxiang","family":"Xue","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210031, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Breeding Equipment, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210031, China"}]},{"given":"Mingxia","family":"Shen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Breeding Equipment, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210031, China"},{"name":"College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210031, China"}]},{"given":"Yuwen","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210031, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Breeding Equipment, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210031, China"}]},{"given":"Haonan","family":"Tian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Breeding Equipment, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210031, China"},{"name":"College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210031, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-8037-9630","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zihao","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210031, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Breeding Equipment, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210031, China"}]},{"given":"Jinxin","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210031, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Breeding Equipment, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210031, China"}]},{"given":"Peiquan","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Breeding Equipment, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210031, China"},{"name":"College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210031, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"437","article-title":"Application of infrared thermography to measure body temperature of sows","volume":"82","author":"Traulsen","year":"2010","journal-title":"Z\u00fcchtungskunde"},{"key":"ref_2","first-page":"268","article-title":"Infrared thermography to evaluate lameness in pregnant sows","volume":"55","author":"Amezcua","year":"2014","journal-title":"Can. 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