基于电子鼻检测的奶牛产后子宫炎早期预警模型初步研究

doi:10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2026.01.048

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The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of the early warning model for metritis in dairy cows established by electronic nose detection. The detection of volatile organic compounds （VOCs） in feces and blood samples of 50 healthy dairy cows and 22 metritis cows before onset by electronic nose， preliminary analysis of data by orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis （OPLS-DA） model. The training set and test set were divided according to 7∶3， the early warning model was established and the performance of the electronic nose in predicting metritis was evaluated. The results showed that， the feces and blood of healthy and metritis dairy cows were clearly distinguished and clustered respectively. In this study feces are the best sample source for establishing an early warning model. Five different machine learning algorithms， namely decision tree （DT）， random forest （RF）， K-nearest neighbors （KNN）， eXtreme gradient boosting （XGBoost）， and linear discriminant analysis （LDA）， were used to build models. Predictive efficiency is analyzed in conjunction with model evaluation metrics and receiver operating characteristic curves （ROC）. It was found that the test set accuracy （ACC） reached 0.88、0.96、0.88、0.91、0.98. Area under curve （AUC） was 0.86、0.98、0.95、0.98 and 1.00. As a result， the RF and LDA models perform the best in terms of predictive performance. The electronic nose has a high accuracy in predicting the occurrence of uterine infections. In conclusion， the detection of fecal VOCs of dairy cows before onset by electronic nose can achieve the purpose of early warning of metritis inflammation and has a great application prospect in the early diagnosis of dairy cow diseases.

Key words: metritis, electronic nose, machine learning algorithm, early warning

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S857.23

WANG Fang, GANG Huasheng, ZHANG Rong, DUAN Hongwei, HU Junjie. A Preliminary Study on the Early Warning Model of Postpartum Metritis in Dairy Cows based on Electronic Nose Detection[J]. Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica, 2026, 57(1): 553-563.

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排名 Rank	特征名称 Sensor	评分 Score	排名 Rank	特征名称 Sensor	评分 Score
1	S6	0.030 995	17	S25	0.000 110
2	S3	0.001 080	18	S1	0.000 097
3	S28	0.000 940	19	S14	0.000 082
4	S27	0.000 692	20	S29	0.000 075
5	S9	0.000 424	21	S8	0.000 073
6	S2	0.000 417	22	S16	0.000 071
7	S19	0.000 367	23	S11	0.000 062
8	S18	0.000 356	24	S17	0.000 059
9	S26	0.000 341	25	S7	0.000 055
10	S15	0.000 276	26	S5	0.000 039
11	S23	0.000 227	27	S21	0.000 033
12	S32	0.000 214	28	S4	0.000 024
13	S24	0.000 203	29	S31	0.000 014
14	S10	0.000 165	30	S20	0.000 009
15	S30	0.000 148	31	S12	0.000 002
16	S13	0.000 115	32	S22	0.000 000

数据集Dataset	评价指标 Evaluation metrics	DT	RF	KNN	XGBoost	LDA
Train	ACC	0.84	0.94	0.77	0.91	0.98
	TPR	0.86	0.94	0.89	0.89	0.99
	TNR	0.86	0.94	0.89	0.89	0.99
	PPV	0.85	0.98	0.85	0.90	0.97
Test	ACC	0.88	0.96	0.88	0.91	0.98
	TPR	0.86	0.94	0.89	0.89	0.99
	TNR	0.86	0.94	0.89	0.89	0.99
	PPV	0.85	0.98	0.85	0.90	0.97
	Precision	0.92	0.95	0.97	0.92	1.00
	Recall	0.89	1.00	0.84	0.95	0.97
	F1 Score	0.91	0.97	0.90	0.94	0.99

A Preliminary Study on the Early Warning Model of Postpartum Metritis in Dairy Cows based on Electronic Nose Detection

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