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Video tracking for laboratory rodents

We have developed a video tracking system for behavioral analysis of laboratory rodents. Our system allows on-line and off-line tracking. For tracking we propose a new algorithm based on shape models. Shape parameters are estimated by branch-and-bound optimization in each frame independently, which guarantees robustness. Resulting tracks and other experiment data are stored in database. In an analysis module a large number of track metrics is implemented for individual and group comparison.

Demonstration of video tracking and analysis system for behavioral studies with laboratory rodents:

1. Sindeev M. Konushin A. Mouse contour tracking based on Branch-and-Bound method. In. 2
2. Voronin P., Konushin A. Video tracking laboratory rodents using active shape models // 9th Int. Conf. on Patterns Recognition and Image Analysis: New Information Technologies (PRIA-9-2008), Nizhni Novgorod, 2008. Pp. 299?302.
3. Vetrov D., Kropotov D., Konushin A., Lomakina-Rumyantseva E., Zarayskaya I., Anokhin K. Automatic segmentation of mouse behavior using hidden Markov models // Proc. of Measuring Behavior 2008, Maastriht, Holland, 2008, pp.241-242
4. Konushin A., Lomakina-Rumyantseva E., Kropotov D., Vetrov D., Cherepov A., Anokhin K.. Automated distinguishing of mouse behavior in new environment and under amphetemine using decisin trees. // Proc. of Measuring Behavior 2008, Maastriht, Holland, 2008, pp.304-305
5. Konushin A., Lomakina-Rumyantseva E., Voronin P., Sindeev M. Video tracking system for rodent laboratory animals with automatic segmentation into behavioral acts. In Proc. GraphiCon?2008, pp.199-205 (In Russian)

The work has been supported by EU FP6 project ?IntelliMaze: High-throughput, fully automated and cost-effective behavioural phenotyping of normal, clinical and genetic mouse models? and the Russian federal target program ?Scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel of innovative Russia in 2009-2013?, project P264.