Using muzzle prints to manage disease outbreaks in cattle

Using muzzle prints to manage disease outbreaks in cattle

An agtech startup is analyzing images of cow muzzles to predict illness several days before the cattle become symptomatic.

Shekhar Gupta, CEO and founder of MyAnIML, says the AI-driven technology uses the company’s proprietary facial recognition software, and has been 99.4% effective in predicting bovine pinkeye, “As the cows start to get sick, but are not symptomatic yet, their muzzle starts to change. For example, it either flattens out or darkens, there are so many different things that happen.