Research perspectives on animal health in the era of artificial intelligence

Veterinary Research

Facundo Muñoz¹  Jean-François Guégan²  Raphaël Duboz³  Xavier Bailly⁴  Gaël Beaunée⁵  Sébastien Picault⁵  Pauline Ezanno⁵  Hervé Monod⁶ 

[1] ASTRE, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Montpellier, France;ASTRE, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Montpellier, France;MIVEGEC, IRD, CNRS, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France;Comité National Français Sur Les Changements Globaux, Paris, France;ASTRE, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Montpellier, France;Sorbonne Université, IRD, UMMISCO, Bondy, France;INRAE, EpiA, Theix, France;INRAE, Oniris, BIOEPAR, Nantes, France;Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, Jouy-en-Josas, MaIAGE, France;

关键词: Animal disease;    Data;    Livestock;    Modelling;    Artificial intelligence;    Decision support tool;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13567-021-00902-4

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) approaches in animal health (AH) makes it possible to address highly complex issues such as those encountered in quantitative and predictive epidemiology, animal/human precision-based medicine, or to study host × pathogen interactions. AI may contribute (i) to diagnosis and disease case detection, (ii) to more reliable predictions and reduced errors, (iii) to representing more realistically complex biological systems and rendering computing codes more readable to non-computer scientists, (iv) to speeding-up decisions and improving accuracy in risk analyses, and (v) to better targeted interventions and anticipated negative effects. In turn, challenges in AH may stimulate AI research due to specificity of AH systems, data, constraints, and analytical objectives. Based on a literature review of scientific papers at the interface between AI and AH covering the period 2009–2019, and interviews with French researchers positioned at this interface, the present study explains the main AH areas where various AI approaches are currently mobilised, how it may contribute to renew AH research issues and remove methodological or conceptual barriers. After presenting the possible obstacles and levers, we propose several recommendations to better grasp the challenge represented by the AH/AI interface. With the development of several recent concepts promoting a global and multisectoral perspective in the field of health, AI should contribute to defract the different disciplines in AH towards more transversal and integrative research.

【 授权许可】

CC BY