Some studies on epilepsy have shown that seizures might change the body temperature of a patient. Furthermore, other works have shown that kainic acid, a drug used to study seizures, modify body temperature of a laboratory rat. Thus, thermographic cameras may have an important role in investigating seizures. In this paper, we present the methods we have developed to measure the temperature of a moving rat subject to seizure using a thermographic camera and image processing. To accurately measure the body temperature, a particle filter tracker has been developed and tested along with an experimental methodology. The obtained measures are compared with a ground truth. The methods are tested on a 2-hour video and it is shown that our method achieves the promising results. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008.
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Torabi, A., Bilodeau, G. A., Levesque, M., Pierre Langlois, J. M., Lema, P., & Carmant, L. (2008). Measuring an animal body temperature in thermographic video using particle filter tracking. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 5358 LNCS, pp. 1081–1091). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89639-5_103
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