3-D Worm Tracker for Freely Moving C. elegans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Kwon, Namseop ^a   Pyo, Jaeyeon ^a   Lee, Seung Jae ^a   Je, Jung Ho ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; KINEMATICS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; THREE DIMENSIONAL WORM TRACKER;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84874293929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057484     Document Type: Article

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