The use of optical flow to characterize muscle contraction

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 65-80

  Zoccolan, Davide ^a,b   Giachetti, Andrea ^c   Torre, Vincent ^a,b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

^c Zora Ind Macchiareddu ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Feature tracking; Image sequence analysis; Motoneuron characterization; Optical flow; Skin contraction; Videomicroscopy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAMERA; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; FORCE TRANSDUCER; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEECH; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; TECHNIQUE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BIOMECHANICS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEECHES; MECHANORECEPTORS; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 0035975665     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(01)00418-6     Document Type: Article

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