CeleST: Computer Vision Software for Quantitative Analysis of C. elegans Swim Behavior Reveals Novel Features of Locomotion

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Restif, Christophe ^a,c   Ibáñez Ventoso, Carolina ^b   Vora, Mehul M ^b,d   Guo, Suzhen ^b   Metaxas, Dimitris ^a   Driscoll, Monica ^b  

^a Rutgers University School of Medicine   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOFTWARE TESTING; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANIMAL MODEL; AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; DEFORMABLE MODELS; DYNAMIC CHANGES; ELEGANS; HIGH-PRECISION; NEURONAL CIRCUITS; SIMPLE++; SWIMMING LOCOMOTIONS; TEST SOFTWARES;

ANIMALS;

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; GAIT; GENE ACTIVITY; LIFESPAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASTICITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SWIMMING; VELOCITY; VIDEORECORDING; WILD TYPE; YOUNG ADULT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FACTUAL DATABASE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; SOFTWARE; SWIMMING;

EID: 84905454881     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003702     Document Type: Article

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