The SmartStressMonitor project will tackle an important issue. The
\nmillions of laboratory rats and mice used in laboratory experiments each
\nyear are all inspected at least daily by experts to check on their
\nhealth and welfare. However, if a problem occurs, it may not be noticed
\nuntil the next check. We will develop a system to automatically monitor
\nthe animals’ condition so that animal carers can quickly attend to their
\nneeds. <\/p>\n
The project is led by Noldus Information Technology, a
\nDutch company which is the market leader in the field of solutions for
\nmeasuring animals’ behavior and welfare. They will develop special
\nsoftware for efficiently training AI systems to be able to detect
\nbehavioral states which cannot currently be automatically detected.
\nThere are also two German companies. CAE is a technology leader in
\nacoustic cameras and sound field analysis. It will create specialist
\nmicrophone arrays to pick up the sounds that the animals make outside
\nthe range of human hearing. Kubion specialises in AI analysis and they
\nwill develop algorithms to detect pain or discomfort in the animals. <\/p>\n
There
\nare also three academic partners. Those partners will create training
\ndata for the AI, provide key knowledge about how to measure the animals’
\nwelfare and validate the final system. ZETT is the animal facility for
\nthe Heinrich-Heine university of Düsseldorf. They are one of the largest
\nanimal facilities in Germany and they also train animal carers. The
\nparticipants from the Radboud University and Radboud University Medical
\nCentre are both part of the world-famous Donders Institute for brain,
\ncognition and behaviour. They also have a centre housing experimental
\nanimals and they have expertise in measuring the sounds that rodents
\nmake and in improving their welfare.<\/p>\n
The project will result in a
\nprototype of the system for monitoring lab animal welfare. After the
\nproject, the commercial partners will develop it further to a product,
\nwhich they will then bring onto the market. We expect that there will be
\nconsiderable interest both from commercial companies (pharmaceutical
\ncompanies, contract research organisations, etc) and from universities
\nand research institutes in purchasing the system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","pr-category":[278],"pr-priority":[288],"pr-stat":[254],"class_list":["post-42753","projects","type-projects","status-publish","hentry","pr-category-health-care-3","pr-priority-a-more-innovative-programme-area","pr-stat-new"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/42753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/projects"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pr-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pr-category?post=42753"},{"taxonomy":"pr-priority","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pr-priority?post=42753"},{"taxonomy":"pr-stat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pr-stat?post=42753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}