Fig. 2

Images of the developed methodology. a The 7 different regions of interest (ROI) used for our experiments; 7 ellipsoids (El1-El7) on wrist joints of the front paws, ankle joints of the hind paws, and upper back. b An example of a thermal image loaded into the FLIR tool software. For each of the 7 ellipsoids (El1-El7), the minimum, maximum, and average temperature is given