A comparison of tracking methods for swimming C. elegans

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7623, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Restif, Christophe ^a   Metaxas, Dimitris ^a  

^a Rutgers University School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; evaluation; segmentation; swimming; tracking

Indexed keywords

ELEGANS; EVALUATION; SEGMENTATION; SWIMMING; TRACKING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 79751501830     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844151     Document Type: Conference Paper

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