A method for tracking rats in a complex and completely dark environment using computerized video analysis

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 279-286

  Dielenberg, Robert A ^a   Halasz, Paul ^a   Day, Trevor A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

'Enriched' environment; Behavioral tracking; Computerized video analysis; Ethoexperimental neuroscience; Infrared camera; Kalman filter; LabVIEW; ROI

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; ENVIRONMENT; EYE TRACKING; FILTER; LIGHT REFRACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TAPE RECORDER; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DARKNESS; ENVIRONMENT; HOUSING, ANIMAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFRARED RAYS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 33750950435     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2006.05.024     Document Type: Article

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