An automatic method to calculate heart rate from zebrafish larval cardiac videos

Abstract Background Zebrafish is a widely used model organism for studying heart development and cardiac-related pathogenesis. With the ability of surviving without a functional circulation at larval stages, strong genetic similarity between zebrafish and mammals, prolific reproduction and optically...

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Main Authors: Chia-Pin Kang, Hung-Chi Tu, Tzu-Fun Fu, Jhe-Ming Wu, Po-Hsun Chu, Darby Tien-Hao Chang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-018-2166-6