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Thursday, June 29, 2023 | 5:50 p.m.

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Tokyo, Beritasatu.com – Cats are considered lucky in Japan, and popular pet owners spend a fortune caring for them. However, how do you know when a cat is feeling sick?

A tech company and a university in Tokyo have teamed up to create an app trained using thousands of cat photos. According to them, this app can tell you if your cat is in pain.

Since its release last month, “Cat Pain Detector” has caught the attention of 43,000 users, mainly in Japan, but also in Europe and South America. So said Go Sakioka, the lead developer of Carelogy.

This app is part of an ever-evolving suite of technologies for pet owners who care about the well-being of their furry friends, also known as anabuls (fur cubs). Similar technologies that track mood and detect pain have been developed in Canada and Israel.

Carelogy partnered with the College of Bioresource Sciences at Nihon University to collect 6,000 photos of cats. In this study, they carefully studied the position of the cat’s ears, nose, whiskers and eyelids.

They then used a scoring system designed by the University of Montreal to measure small differences between healthy cats and cats with hard-to-detect diseases.

Then the app developer feeds the information into an artificial intelligence (AI) detection system, which then improves its skills through some 600,000 photos uploaded by users, Sakioka said.

Currently, this application has an accuracy rate of over 90%.

According to the Japan Pet Food Association, 60% of cat owners take their cats to the vet at least once a year.

“We want to make it easier for cat owners to judge at home whether they should take their cat to the vet or not,” Sakioka said.

Several veterinarians in Japan, the country of Hello Kitty, have used the “Cat Pain Detector”. Japan is also a place where tourists flock to cat cafes and several small islands are inhabited by feral cats.

However, Sakioka warns that “these AI systems still need to become more accurate before they can be used as a standard tool.”

# Cat# Pet Cat# sick cat# Chat app

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