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ArticleCommunications biology2025

Automated detection of complex zebrafish seizure behavior at scale.

Paige Whyte-Fagundes, John Efromson, Anjelica Vance, Samuel Carpenter, Aurélien Bègue, Aloe Carroll, Thomas Jedidiah Jenks Doman, Mark Harfouche, Scott C Baraban

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Article in Communications biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Paige Whyte-Fagundes *Department of Neurological Surgery & Weill Institute for Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. paige.whytefagundes@ucsf.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4878-9955
John Efromson *Ramona Optics Inc., Durham, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5431-8634
Anjelica VanceDepartment of Neurological Surgery & Weill Institute for Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Samuel CarpenterRamona Optics Inc., Durham, NC, USA.
Aurélien BègueRamona Optics Inc., Durham, NC, USA.
Aloe CarrollDepartment of Neurological Surgery & Weill Institute for Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-2775-9651
Thomas Jedidiah Jenks DomanRamona Optics Inc., Durham, NC, USA.
Mark HarfoucheRamona Optics Inc., Durham, NC, USA.
Scott C BarabanDepartment of Neurological Surgery & Weill Institute for Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. scott.baraban@ucsf.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1975-9781

Funding

Proteins to Cell SystemsU54NS117170 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI ISOM, LORI L. · 2020 to 2024
$11.9M
ZEBRAFISH MODELS FOR DRAVET SYNDROME RESEARCH AND DISCOVERYR01NS096976 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI BARABAN, SCOTT C · 2016 to 2024
$3.9M
Parallelized Imaging and Automated Analysis of Zebrafish Assays with a Gigapixel MicroscopeR44OD024879 · OD · RAMONA OPTICS, INC. · PI HARFOUCHE, MARK · 2018 to 2022
$3.5M
Gluconeogenic control of Dravet SyndromeR01HD102071 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI BARABAN, SCOTT C, PATEL, MANISHA N · 2020 to 2024
$2.5M
Rapid 3D Whole-Slide Digitization of Thick Cytopathology Slides with a Gigapixel MicroscopeR44CA250877 · NCI · RAMONA OPTICS, INC. · PI HARFOUCHE, MARK · 2020 to 2022
$2.4M
A parallelized imaging platform for accurate and efficient long-term assessment of brain organoid developmentR43MH133521 · NIMH · RAMONA OPTICS, INC. · PI HARFOUCHE, MARK · 2024 to 2025
$950k
Deep Behavioral Phenotyping of Novel Zebrafish Epilepsy ModelsR21NS138525 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI BARABAN, SCOTT C · 2024 to 2025
$521k
A wide-field, high-resolution 3D exoscope for improved microsurgery workflowR43EB030979 · NIBIB · RAMONA OPTICS, INC. · PI HARFOUCHE, MARK · 2020 to 2020
$252k
NCI NIH HHS R44 CA250877NIBIB NIH HHS R43 EB030979NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD102071NIH HHS R44 OD024879NIMH NIH HHS R43 MH133521NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS096976NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS138525NINDS NIH HHS U54 NS117170U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01-HD102071U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01-NS096976
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Convulsive seizure behaviors are a hallmark feature of epilepsy, but automated detection of these events in freely moving animals is difficult. Here, we employed a high-resolution multi-camera array microscope with high-speed video acquisition and custom supervised machine learning (ML) for automated detection of larval zebrafish between 3- and 7-days post-fertilization (dpf). We assessed data from over 2700 zebrafish either exposed to a chemoconvulsant (pentylenetetrazole, PTZ) or genetic zebrafish lines representing Developmental Epileptic Encephalopathy (DEE) syndromes. Using eight-point skeletal body pose estimation for tracking individual larvae arrayed in a 96-well format, we report reliable, quantitative and age-dependent changes in maximum swim speed, as well as eye-, head- and tail- angle kinematics. Finally, we employed an ML-based algorithm to automatically identify normal and abnormal behaviors in an unbiased manner. Our results offer a robust framework for automated detection of zebrafish seizure-associated behaviors.

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Behavior, AnimalSeizuresZebrafishAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalLarvaMachine LearningPentylenetetrazoleSwimmingPentylenetetrazole

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PMID40473736
PMCPMC12141442

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