An Automated Micropositioning System for Investigating C. Elegans Locomotive Behavior

Journal of Laboratory Automation

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 269-276

  Wang, Wenhui ^a   Sun, Yu ^b,c   Dixon, Scott J ^b   Alexander, Mariam ^b   Roy, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

C. elegans tracking; cubic spline fitting; extraction; Gaussian Pyramid; images; visual feature

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ANALYSIS; C. ELEGANS TRACKING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CUBIC SMOOTHING SPLINES; CUBIC SPLINE FITTING; ELEGANS; GAUSSIAN PYRAMID IMAGES; GAUSSIAN PYRAMIDS; IMAGE SIZES; MICRO POSITIONING; REAL-TIME FEATURES; STREAMING VIDEOS; VISUAL FEATURE EXTRACTION;

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LOCOMOTIVES; SPLINES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KERNEL METHOD; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 69449107447     PISSN: 22110682     EISSN: 15402452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jala.2008.12.006     Document Type: Article

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