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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.
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Torabi, A., Bilodeau, GA., Levesque, M., Langlois, J.M.P., Lema, P., Carmant, L. (2008). Measuring an Animal Body Temperature in Thermographic Video Using Particle Filter Tracking. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5358. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89639-5_103
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