PreciseEdge raster RGB image segmentation algorithm reduces user input for livestock digital body measurements highly correlated to real-world measurements

• M. Jennifer Woodward-Greene ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: M. Jennifer Woodward-Greene, Curtis P. Van Tassell

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Jennifer.Woodward@usda.gov

  Current address: USDA-ARS National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD, United States of America

  Affiliations USDA-ARS-NEA Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States of America, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Department, George Mason University, Manassas, VA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3236-2711

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• Jason M. Kinser ,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ JMK, TSS, JS and IIV also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Computational and Data Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States of America

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• Tad S. Sonstegard ,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ JMK, TSS, JS and IIV also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Recombinetics at Acceligen, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Johann Sölkner ,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ JMK, TSS, JS and IIV also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

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• Iosif I. Vaisman ,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ JMK, TSS, JS and IIV also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Department, George Mason University, Manassas, VA, United States of America

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• Curtis P. Van Tassell

  Contributed equally to this work with: M. Jennifer Woodward-Greene, Curtis P. Van Tassell

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation USDA-ARS-NEA Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States of America

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