Caenorhabditis elegans egg-laying detection and behavior study using image analysis

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 2229-2240

  Geng, Wei ^a,c   Cosman, Pamela ^a,d,e   Palm, Megan ^b   Schafer, William R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c Agile Systems Inc   (United States)

^d Center for Wireless Communications   (United States)

^e Tau Beta Pi ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviors; C. elegans; Computer vision; Deformable template matching; Egg laying; Image analysis

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOURS; C. ELEGANS; DEFORMABLE TEMPLATE MATCHING; EGG-LAYING;

ALGORITHMS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER VISION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 29544438714     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/ASP.2005.2229     Document Type: Article

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