Classification of different light colors applied during the incubation period based on small intestine morphology with XGBoost algorithm
Uğur Şen, Elif Cilavdaroğlu, İsa Coşkun, Cem Tırınk, Gökhan Filik, Hüseyin Çayan, İrem Ceren Kızılköy, Olatunbosun Odu · 2026
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Description
Ugur Sen and co-authors test whether a chick's gut can reveal the color of light it hatched under in a 2026 study. Light during incubation steers embryo development, and each color leaves its own mark on the chick's body. The small intestine, key to absorbing food, changes shape with those early conditions. The team asks how well those shapes sort the light colors.
Eggs were incubated under red, green, or white light, or in the dark. At hatching, the chicks' small intestines were measured in detail. A gradient boosting algorithm, XGBoost, was trained to call the light group from the gut measures alone. Clean sorting would prove that incubation light writes a lasting signature into the gut. Such a signature could become a cheap quality check for hatcheries.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Uğur Şen, Elif Cilavdaroğlu, İsa Coşkun, Cem Tırınk, Gökhan Filik, Hüseyin Çayan, İrem Ceren Kızılköy, Olatunbosun Odu |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 62 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |