A research team is studying whether artificial intelligence (AI) could play a supportive role in the evaluation of respiratory disease in pigs.

In their recently published study, the team, led by Dr. Robert Valeris-Chacin, an assistant professor at VERO in the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences’ (VMBS) Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, assessed the capabilities of an AI to detect lesions in pig lungs, which can be a sign of pneumonia-causing bacteria.

The team found that while the AI is not yet as accurate as a veterinarian evaluator, it has behaviours that are very similar to a person.

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