A Generative Statistical Algorithm for Automatic Detection of Complex Postures

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Nagy, Stanislav ^a   Goessling, Marc ^b   Amit, Yali ^b,c   Biron, David ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b University of Chicago   (United States)

^c THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA;

AUTOMATED DETECTION; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COILERS; DETECTION ERROR; DETECTION PROBLEMS; ITS APPLICATIONS; STATISTIC MODELING; STATISTICAL ALGORITHM; WORK-FLOWS;

ANIMALS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BODY BUILD; BODY COILING; BODY POSTURE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPLEX BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENERATIVE STATISTICAL ALGORITHM; GENOTYPE; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; STATISTICAL MODEL; WILD TYPE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POSTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84946012077     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004517     Document Type: Article

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