TY - JOUR AU - Geng, Wei AU - Cosman, Pamela AU - Palm, Megan AU - Schafer, William R. PY - 2005 DA - 2005/08/25 TI - Caenorhabditis elegans Egg-Laying Detection and Behavior Study Using Image Analysis JO - EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing SP - 968352 VL - 2005 IS - 14 AB - Egg laying is an important phase of the life cycle of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans). Previous studies examined egg-laying events manually. This paper presents a method for automatic detection of egg-laying onset using deformable template matching and other morphological image analysis techniques. Some behavioral changes surrounding egg-laying events are also studied. The results demonstrate that the computer vision tools and the algorithm developed here can be effectively used to study C. elegans egg-laying behaviors. The algorithm developed is an essential part of a machine-vision system for C. elegans tracking and behavioral analysis. SN - 1687-6180 UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/ASP.2005.2229 DO - 10.1155/ASP.2005.2229 ID - Geng2005 ER -