Computer-driven automatic identification of locomotion states in Caenorhabditis elegans

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 355-363

  Hoshi, Katsunori ^a   Shingai, Ryuzo ^a  

^a IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavior; Chemotaxis; Image analysis; Movement; Nematode; Phenotype

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAMERA; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LOCOMOTION; MUTANT; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOCOMOTION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33748317893     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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