LabGym: Quantification of user-defined animal behaviors using learning-based holistic assessment

ABSTRACT: Summary Quantifying animal behavior is important for biological research. Identifying behaviors is the prerequisite of quantifying them. Current computational tools for behavioral quantification typically use high-level properties such as body poses to identify the behaviors, which constrains the information available for a holistic assessment. Here we report LabGym, an open-source computational tool for quantifying animal behaviors without this constraint. In LabGym, we introduce “pattern image” to represent the animal’s motion pattern, in addition to “animation” that shows all spatiotemporal details of a behavior. These two pieces of information are assessed holistically by customizable deep neural networks for accurate behavior identifications. The quantitative measurements of each beha

SUBMITTER: Hu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10088092 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature