BehaviorDEPOT is a simple, flexible tool for automated behavioral detection based on markerless pose tracking.

ABSTRACT: Quantitative descriptions of animal behavior are essential to study the neural substrates of cognitive and emotional processes. Analyses of naturalistic behaviors are often performed by hand or with expensive, inflexible commercial software. Recently, machine learning methods for markerless pose estimation enabled automated tracking of freely moving animals, including in labs with limited coding expertise. However, classifying specific behaviors based on pose data requires additional computational analyses and remains a significant challenge for many groups. We developed BehaviorDEPOT (DEcoding behavior based on POsitional Tracking), a simple, flexible software program that can detect behavior from video timeseries and can analyze the results of experimental assays. BehaviorDEPOT calculate

SUBMITTER: Gabriel CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9398447 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature