Building a Set of Image Database of Popular Chicken Diseases

The frequent occurrence of poultry diseases, such as bird flu, not only causes huge economic losses to farmers but also poses serious threats to human health. Providing diverse and detailed images of some common diseases in chickens is essential in poultry breeding to reduce economic losses while limiting disease outbreaks on a large scale and mitigating the source of infection from avian to humans. Therefore, in this study, we developed a website of images fully and in detail for some common chicken diseases so that the farmers can easily access and automatically look up information about the considered diseases. The images of the diseased chickenscollected from avian experts were synthesized, standardized and organized into a database of chicken disease images. This is the first database of web-based chicken disease imagesthat replaces the existing paper-based data.