IdTracker: Tracking individuals in a group by automatic identification of unmarked animals

Nature Methods

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 743-748

  Pérez Escudero, Alfonso ^a   Vicente Page, Julián ^a   Hinz, Robert C ^a   Arganda, Sara ^a,b   De Polavieja, Gonzalo G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

^b Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; GROUP STRUCTURE; HISTOGRAM; IDTRACKER; ILLUMINATION; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MOUSE; MUS MUSCULUS; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS LATIPES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEORECORDING; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FORMICIDAE; MESSOR STRUCTOR; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; ORYZIAS LATIPES;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICE; ORYZIAS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOFTWARE; VIDEO RECORDING; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84903521501     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2994     Document Type: Article

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