Simple Summary In the past, there was a strong focus on avoiding or reducing negative
animal welfare in animal experimentation. Recently, the importance of promoting positive …

Quantifying the behavior of small animals traversing long distances in complex
environments is one of the most difficult tracking scenarios for computer vision. Tiny and low …

Background Accurate determination of mouse positions from video data is crucial for various
types of behavioral analyses. While detection of body positions is straightforward, the correct …

Background Manual analysis of behavior is labor intensive and subject to inter-rater
variability. Although considerable progress in automation of analysis has been made …

Alcohol use disorder needs more effective treatments because relapse rates remain high.
Psychedelics, such as ayahuasca, have been used to treat substance use disorders. Our …

Image-based tracking of animals in their natural habitats can provide rich behavioural data,
but is very challenging due to complex and dynamic background and target appearances …

Animal behavioral tests are essential to understand the bases of neurologic and
psychological disorders, which can be evaluated by different methodological and …

Video tracking is an essential tool in rodent research. Here, we demonstrate a machine
vision rodent tracking camera based on a low-cost, open-source, machine vision camera …

Quantitative characterization of mouse activity, locomotion and walking patterns requires the
monitoring of position and activity over long periods of time. Manual behavioral phenoty** …

There is an ongoing debate on the contribution of the neuronal glutamate transporter
EAAC1 to the onset of compulsive behaviors. Here, we used behavioral …