On-line determination of the velocity of simultaneously moving organisms by image analysis for the detection of sublethal toxicity

Water Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1027-1034

  Baillieul, Marc ^a   Scheunders, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Locomotor activity; Motility; Real time analysis; Software

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROORGANISMS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOXICITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

LOCOMOTOR ACTIVITY; SUBLETHAL TOXICITY;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DAPHNIA; ECOTOXICOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; VELOCITY; WATER POLLUTION;

CLADOCERA; DAPHNIA MAGNA;

EID: 0032055432     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1354(97)00321-7     Document Type: Article

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