Innovations and advances in modelling and measuring pain in animals

KE Sadler, JS Mogil, CL Stucky - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Best practices in preclinical algesiometry (pain behaviour testing) have shifted over the past
decade as a result of technological advancements, the continued dearth of translational …

Neural circuits regulating prosocial behaviors

JJ Walsh, DJ Christoffel, RC Malenka - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2023 - nature.com
Positive, prosocial interactions are essential for survival, development, and well-being.
These intricate and complex behaviors are mediated by an amalgamation of neural circuit …

SLEAP: A deep learning system for multi-animal pose tracking

TD Pereira, N Tabris, A Matsliah, DM Turner, J Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The desire to understand how the brain generates and patterns behavior has driven rapid
methodological innovation in tools to quantify natural animal behavior. While advances in …

Multi-animal pose estimation, identification and tracking with DeepLabCut

J Lauer, M Zhou, S Ye, W Menegas, S Schneider… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Estimating the pose of multiple animals is a challenging computer vision problem: frequent
interactions cause occlusions and complicate the association of detected keypoints to the …

Dynamic influences on the neural encoding of social valence

N Padilla-Coreano, KM Tye… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Social signals can serve as potent emotional triggers with powerful impacts on processes
from cognition to valence processing. How are social signals dynamically and flexibly …

Lightning Pose: improved animal pose estimation via semi-supervised learning, Bayesian ensembling and cloud-native open-source tools

D Biderman, MR Whiteway, C Hurwitz, N Greenspan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Contemporary pose estimation methods enable precise measurements of behavior via
supervised deep learning with hand-labeled video frames. Although effective in many cases …

Multi-animal pose estimation and tracking with DeepLabCut

J Lauer, M Zhou, S Ye, W Menegas, T Nath… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Estimating the pose of multiple animals is a challenging computer vision problem: frequent
interactions cause occlusions and complicate the association of detected keypoints to the …

Open-source tools for behavioral video analysis: Setup, methods, and best practices

K Luxem, JJ Sun, SP Bradley, K Krishnan, E Yttri… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Recently developed methods for video analysis, especially models for pose estimation and
behavior classification, are transforming behavioral quantification to be more precise …

Deep-learning-based identification, tracking, pose estimation and behaviour classification of interacting primates and mice in complex environments

M Marks, Q Jin, O Sturman, L von Ziegler… - Nature machine …, 2022 - nature.com
Quantification of behaviours of interest from video data is commonly used to study brain
function, the effects of pharmacological interventions, and genetic alterations. Existing …

Rethinking pose estimation in crowds: overcoming the detection information bottleneck and ambiguity

M Zhou, L Stoffl, MW Mathis… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Frequent interactions between individuals are a fundamental challenge for pose estimation
algorithms. Current pipelines either use an object detector together with a pose estimator …