Chuxi Li, Zifan Xiao, Yerong Li, Zhinan Chen, Xun Ji, Yiqun Liu, Shufei Feng, Zhen Zhang, Kaiming Zhang, Jianfeng Feng, Trevor W. Robbins, Shisheng Xiong, Yongchang Chen, Xiao Xiao. 2023. Deep learning-based activity recognition and fine motor identification using 2D skeletons of cynomolgus monkeys. Zoological Research, 44(5): 967-980. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2022.449
Citation: Chuxi Li, Zifan Xiao, Yerong Li, Zhinan Chen, Xun Ji, Yiqun Liu, Shufei Feng, Zhen Zhang, Kaiming Zhang, Jianfeng Feng, Trevor W. Robbins, Shisheng Xiong, Yongchang Chen, Xiao Xiao. 2023. Deep learning-based activity recognition and fine motor identification using 2D skeletons of cynomolgus monkeys. Zoological Research, 44(5): 967-980. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2022.449

Deep learning-based activity recognition and fine motor identification using 2D skeletons of cynomolgus monkeys

  • Video-based action recognition is becoming a vital tool in clinical research and neuroscientific study for disorder detection and prediction. However, action recognition currently used in non-human primate (NHP) research relies heavily on intense manual labor and lacks standardized assessment. In this work, we established two standard benchmark datasets of NHPs in the laboratory: MonkeyinLab (MiL), which includes 13 categories of actions and postures, and MiL2D, which includes sequences of two-dimensional (2D) skeleton features. Furthermore, based on recent methodological advances in deep learning and skeleton visualization, we introduced the MonkeyMonitorKit (MonKit) toolbox for automatic action recognition, posture estimation, and identification of fine motor activity in monkeys. Using the datasets and MonKit, we evaluated the daily behaviors of wild-type cynomolgus monkeys within their home cages and experimental environments and compared these observations with the behaviors exhibited by cynomolgus monkeys possessing mutations in the MECP2 gene as a disease model of Rett syndrome (RTT). MonKit was used to assess motor function, stereotyped behaviors, and depressive phenotypes, with the outcomes compared with human manual detection. MonKit established consistent criteria for identifying behavior in NHPs with high accuracy and efficiency, thus providing a novel and comprehensive tool for assessing phenotypic behavior in monkeys.
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