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Sensors 2010, 10, 7991-8009; doi:10.3390/s100907991 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Review Sensors and Clinical Mastitis—The Quest for the Perfect Alert Henk Hogeveen 1,2*, Claudia Kamphuis 2, Wilma Steeneveld 2 and Herman Mollenhorst 2 1 Chair group-Business Economics, Wageningen University, Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, Netherlands 2 Department of Farm Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Yalelaan 7, 3584 CL Utrecht, Netherlands; E-Mails: c.kamphuis@uu.nl (C.K.); w.steeneveld@uu.nl (W.S.); h.mollenhorst@uu.nl (H.M.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: henk.hogeveen@wur.nl; Tel.: +31-317-483583; Fax: +31-317-482745. Received: 13 July 2010; in revised form: 9 August 2010 / Accepted: 20 August 2010 / Published: 27 August 2010 Abstract: When cows on dairy farms are milked with an automatic milking system or in high capacity milking parlors, clinical mastitis (CM) cannot be adequately detected without sensors. The objective of this paper is to describe the performance demands of sensor systems to detect CM and evaluats the current performance of these sensor systems. Several detection models based on different sensors were studied in the past. When evaluating these models, three factors are important: performance (in terms of sensitivity and specificity), the time window and the similarity of the study data with real farm data. A CM detection system should offer at least a sensitivity of 80% and a specificity of 99%. The time window should not be longer than 48 hours and study circumstances should be as similar to practical farm circumstances as possible. The study design should comprise more than one farm for data collection. Since 1992, 16 peer-reviewed papers have been published with a description and evaluation of CM detection models. There is a large variation in the use of sensors and algori