A micropositioning system with real-time feature extraction capability for quantifying C. elegans locomotive behavior

Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE CASE 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 243-248

  Wang, W H ^a   Sun, Y ^a   Dixon, S J ^a   Alexander, M ^a   Roy, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA RECORDING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GENES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

BEHAVIORAL PHENOTYPES; MICROPOSITIONING SYSTEM; REAL-TIME FEATURE EXTRACTION;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 44449095215     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COASE.2007.4341678     Document Type: Conference Paper

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