Machine Learning Algorithm Revolutionizes How Scientists Study Behavior
Carnegie Mellon University
B-SOiD is an open source, unsupervised algorithm that can discover and identify behaviors without user input.
To Eric Yttri, assistant professor of biological sciences and Neuroscience Institute faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, the best way to understand the brain is to watch how organisms interact with the world.
"Behavior drives everything we do," Yttri said.
As a behavioral neuroscientist, Yttri studies what happens in the brain when animals walk, eat, sniff or do any action. This kind of research could help answer questions about neurological diseases or disorders like Parkinson's disease or stroke. But identifying and predicting animal behavior is extremely difficult.
