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ArticleNature neuroscience2018

DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning.

Alexander Mathis, Pranav Mamidanna, Kevin M Cury, Taiga Abe, Venkatesh N Murthy, Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, Matthias Bethge

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Article in Nature neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04074772 (Leveraging Machine Learning to Effortlessly Track Patient Movement in the Clinic.), which is not on this map. Cited by 2,500 papers.

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NCT04074772 completednot on this mapstarted 2020, after this paper: background citation

Leveraging Machine Learning to Effortlessly Track Patient Movement in the Clinic.

TypeobservationalSponsorUniversity of Colorado, DenverRan2020 to 2021Enrolled25ConditionsMovement Disorders
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Alexander MathisInstitute for Theoretical Physics and Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3777-2202
Pranav MamidannaInstitute for Theoretical Physics and Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Kevin M CuryDepartment of Neuroscience and the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Taiga AbeDepartment of Neuroscience and the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Venkatesh N MurthyDepartment of Molecular & Cellular Biology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2443-4252
Mackenzie Weygandt MathisInstitute for Theoretical Physics and Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. mackenzie@post.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7368-4456
Matthias BethgeInstitute for Theoretical Physics and Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantifying behavior is crucial for many applications in neuroscience. Videography provides easy methods for the observation and recording of animal behavior in diverse settings, yet extracting particular aspects of a behavior for further analysis can be highly time consuming. In motor control studies, humans or other animals are often marked with reflective markers to assist with computer-based tracking, but markers are intrusive, and the number and location of the markers must be determined a priori. Here we present an efficient method for markerless pose estimation based on transfer learning with deep neural networks that achieves excellent results with minimal training data. We demonstrate the versatility of this framework by tracking various body parts in multiple species across a broad collection of behaviors. Remarkably, even when only a small number of frames are labeled (~200), the algorithm achieves excellent tracking performance on test frames that is comparable to human accuracy.

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BehaviorBehavior, AnimalDeep LearningAlgorithmsAnimalsDrosophila melanogasterHumansMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNerve NetNeural Networks, ComputerOdorantsPosturePsychomotor PerformanceTransfer, Psychology

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