Tracking C. elegans swimming for high-throughput phenotyping

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1542-1548

  Restif, Christophe ^a   Ibañez Ventoso, Carolina ^b   Driscoll, Monica ^b   Metaxas, Dimitris ^a  

^a Rutgers University School of Medicine   (United States)

^b The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Articulated model; C. elegans; Phenotyping; Segmentation; Tracking

Indexed keywords

ARTICULATED MODEL; ELEGANS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; MODEL FITTING; MODEL ORGANISMS; NOVEL METHODS; PHENOTYPING; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; SWIMMING MOTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 80055044183     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2011.5872695     Document Type: Conference Paper

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