FastTrack: An open-source software for tracking varying numbers of deformable objects.

ABSTRACT: Analyzing the dynamical properties of mobile objects requires to extract trajectories from recordings, which is often done by tracking movies. We compiled a database of two-dimensional movies for very different biological and physical systems spanning a wide range of length scales and developed a general-purpose, optimized, open-source, cross-platform, easy to install and use, self-updating software called FastTrack. It can handle a changing number of deformable objects in a region of interest, and is particularly suitable for animal and cell tracking in two-dimensions. Furthermore, we introduce the probability of incursions as a new measure of a movie's trackability that doesn't require the knowledge of ground truth trajectories, since it is resilient to small amounts of errors and can be

SUBMITTER: Gallois B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7904165 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature