The Worm Project

The Worm module of FARSIGHT represents a robust multiple worm segmenting and tracking locomotion events in live worm time –lapse sequences in the presence of a pheromone. Worms are tracked according to their distance from the pheromone spots and intrinsic features are computed from the image data for each worm.

Executables

Binarization

WormBinarization [RawImageFilename] [LabeledImageFilename]

Segmentation

See FARSIGHT Features

Detection

Detect [LabeledImageFilename] [OutputFilename]

Tracking

See Worm Tracker

Behaviors

• Pierce-Shimomura JT, Morse TM, Lockery SR, "The Fundamental Role of Pirouettes in Caenorhabditis elegans Chemotaxis," The Journal of Neuroscience. 1999 Nov; 19(21):9557–9569.