Method and systems for monitoring daily activities of animal

Abstract

The invention discloses a method and systems for monitoring daily activities of an animal, and belongs to the technical field of image data processing. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring a background image of an animal breeding box, and putting the animal in the box; acquiring an animal image, subtracting the animal image from the background image, and marking pixel points higher than a threshold during subtracting; calculating average coordinates of the marked pixel points, and calculating movement displacement and movement distance; marking position coordinates which correspond to the movement distance and are less than or equal to a set threshold as stationary points, and marking sleeping once when the number of the continuous stationary points is more than or equal to the threshold of the number of the stationary points; and acquiring sleep rhythms, sleep time, sleep frequency and motion trail of the experimental animal according to the marked result. The invention also provides two kinds of systems for monitoring the daily activities of the animal. The method and the systems can perform non-interfering monitoring on a plurality of experimental animals for a lone time, and automatically acquire and analyze experimental data such as sleep cycle rhythms, time, frequency and motion trail of the experimental animals.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of image data processing, in particular to a method and system for monitoring daily activities of animals. Background technique [0002] The research and development of new drugs must carry out animal experiments, and evaluate their pharmacological and toxicological effects according to the reaction of experimental animals to drugs. Usually, because drugs may cause physiological and behavioral changes in animals, it is very important to monitor the physiological parameters and behavioral activities of animals and obtain relevant data for evaluating a drug. In addition to drug experiments, research on the relationship between genes and animal physiology, behavior, and diseases is also very important. Researchers need to know what physiological and behavioral changes, or lesions, will be caused by mutations in certain genes. Current animal drug experiments and genetic research generally need to monitor the an...

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However, for experimental animals, this monitoring method is complicated to operate and has high requirements for experimenters, and one experiment can only record the sleep status of a single animal, while pharmacological, toxicological experiments and gene-related pathological experiments require experiments on a large number of animals data, so this method is not suitable for large-scale use

In addition, the method of implanting electrodes will cause harm to the animal's body and will have a bad impact on the experimental results; some simple experiments can be used to judge whether the daily activities of animals such as sleep have changed through direct observation, but this kind of The method is unscientific and subject to human influence, and the experimental results are prone to large errors

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