A semi-automated software tool to study treadmill locomotion in the rat: From experiment videos to statistical gait analysis

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 279-288

  Gravel, P ^a   Tremblay, M ^b   Leblond, H ^b   Rossignol, S ^b   de Guise, J A ^c  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c TELUQ University   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bootstrap analysis; Gait patterns; Motion tracking; Robust methods; Video processing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FLUOROSCOPY; GAIT; HINDLIMB; HIP; KNEE; LOCOMOTION; METATARSOPHALANGEAL JOINT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREADMILL; VIDEORECORDING; X RAY ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEVICES; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY; WALKING; WISTAR RAT; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; BIOMECHANICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GAIT; HINDLIMB; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOFTWARE DESIGN; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIDEO RECORDING; WALKING; X-RAYS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 77954243208     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.05.006     Document Type: Article

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