Automated tracking of whiskers in videos of head fixed rodents

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Clack, Nathan G ^a   O'Connor, Daniel H ^a   Huber, Daniel ^a   Petreanu, Leopoldo ^a   Hires, Andrew ^a   Peron, Simon ^a   Svoboda, Karel ^a   Myers, Eugene W ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

'CURRENT; AUTOMATED TRACKING; BEHAVIOURAL STUDIES; DETECTION TASKS; FRAMES PER SECONDS; FULLY AUTOMATED; HIGH-SPED VIDEO; PERFORMANCE; PROCESSING RATES; VIDEO FRAME;

MAMMALS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRISSA;

MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84864591128     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002591     Document Type: Article

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