Tracking zebrafish larvae in group - Status and perspectives
- Authors
- Martineau, P.R., and Mourrain, P.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-130703-33
- Date
- 2013
- Source
- Methods (San Diego, Calif.) 62(3): 292-303 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Mourrain, Philippe
- Keywords
- zebrafish, tracking, motion, representations, sampling, processing, articulated and skeleton models, frame-to-frame association
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Behavior, Animal/physiology*
- Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
- Larva/physiology*
- Motor Activity/physiology*
- Signal-To-Noise Ratio
- Time-Lapse Imaging
- Video Recording/methods*
- Video Recording/statistics & numerical data
- Zebrafish/physiology*
- PubMed
- 23707495 Full text @ Methods
Video processing is increasingly becoming a standard procedure in zebrafish behavior investigations as it enables higher research throughput and new or better measures. This trend, fostered by the ever increasing performance-to-price ratio of the required recording and processing equipment, should be expected to continue in the foreseeable future, with video-processing based methods permeating more and more experiments and, as a result, expanding the very role of behavioral studies in zebrafish research. To assess whether the routine video tracking of zebrafish larvae directly in the Petri dish is a capability that can be expected in the near future, the key processing concepts are discussed and illustrated on published zebrafish studies when available or other animals when not.