Toward automatic behavioral screen: A computational model for analyzing Caenorhabditis elegans locomotion

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4937-4940

  Zhou, B T ^a   Baek, J H ^a  

^a Hankuk Aviation University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AUTOMATICALLY TRACKING; BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS; BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; HUMAN OBSERVERS; LOCOMOTION PATTERNS; SHAPE REPRESENTATION;

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EID: 77950967973     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332713     Document Type: Conference Paper

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