Tracking and Measuring Movement

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Tracking and Measuring Movement

Breanna Poore
My partner and I are doing a research project over the movement of snails when exposed to different cues. We video-taped the snails for 5 minutes each.

We would like to track and measue their movement in distance to quantify our data.

We have played around with ImageJ and were able to plot multiple points every 10 or so seconds. However, we tried to connect the points using the straight line tool, and were unable to do so and generate a distance.

Is there any way that we can simply track their movement in distance? Is there a way to maybe connect the points automatically?

Thanks,
Breanna

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Re: Tracking and Measuring Movement

Krs5
Dear Breanna,

There are several tracking plugins on the imageJ and fiji websites. You might want to use for example the Manual Tracking Plugin from Fabric Cordelieres (http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/plugins/track/track.html).

Best wishes

Kees

Dr Ir K.R. Straatman
Senior Experimental Officer
Centre for Core Biotechnology Services
College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology
University of Leicester
http://www.le.ac.uk/biochem/microscopy/home.html




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From: ImageJ Interest Group [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Breanna Poore
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Subject: Tracking and Measuring Movement

My partner and I are doing a research project over the movement of snails when exposed to different cues. We video-taped the snails for 5 minutes each.

We would like to track and measue their movement in distance to quantify our data.

We have played around with ImageJ and were able to plot multiple points every 10 or so seconds. However, we tried to connect the points using the straight line tool, and were unable to do so and generate a distance.

Is there any way that we can simply track their movement in distance? Is there a way to maybe connect the points automatically?

Thanks,
Breanna

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