Automated Home-Cage Behavioural Phenotyping of Mice

Neurobehavioral analysis of mouse phenotypes requires the monitoring of mouse behavior over long periods of time. Here, we describe a trainable computer vision system enabling the automated analysis of complex mouse behaviors. We provide software and an extensive manually annotated video database...

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Principais autores: Jhuang, Huei-Han, Garrote, Estibaliz, Yu, Xinlin, Khilnani, Vinita, Poggio, Tomaso A., Steele, Andrew D., Serre, Thomas R.
Outros Autores: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:en_US
Publicado em: Nature Publishing Group 2011
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64492
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3944-0455
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Resumo:Neurobehavioral analysis of mouse phenotypes requires the monitoring of mouse behavior over long periods of time. Here, we describe a trainable computer vision system enabling the automated analysis of complex mouse behaviors. We provide software and an extensive manually annotated video database used for training and testing the system. Our system performs on par with human scoring, as measured from ground-truth manual annotations of thousands of clips of freely behaving mice. As a validation of the system, we characterized the home-cage behaviors of two standard inbred and two non-standard mouse strains. From this data we were able to predict in a blind test the strain identity of individual animals with high accuracy. Our video-based software will complement existing sensor based automated approaches and enable an adaptable, comprehensive, high-throughput, fine-grained, automated analysis of mouse behavior.