arXiv:2508.05138cs.CV2025-08被引 3

用深度学习自动发现小鼠慢性疼痛行为特征,准确率远超人工标注。

Deep Learning-based Animal Behavior Analysis: Insights from Mouse Chronic Pain Models

  • 基于通用动作空间投影自动提取行为特征,避免人为标签偏差。
  • 15类疼痛分类准确率达48.41%,三类分类达73.1%,显著优于人类专家。
  • 可零样本测试药物疗效差异,与已有文献一致,适合疼痛研究与药研。

评估小鼠慢性疼痛行为对临床前研究至关重要,但现有方法多依赖人工标注行为特征,且人类难以明确哪些行为最能反映慢性疼痛,导致难以准确捕捉其隐匿而持续的行为变化。本研究提出一种无需依赖人工定义动作标签的自动特征发现框架。方法采用通用动作空间投影,从原始视频中自动提取小鼠行为特征,保留丰富的行为信息。同时构建了一个涵盖神经性与炎症性疼痛在多个时间点演变过程的小鼠疼痛行为数据集。在15类疼痛分类任务中,该方法准确率达48.41%,显著高于人类专家(21.33%)和常用方法B-SOiD(30.52%)。当分类简化为神经性疼痛、炎症性疼痛与无疼痛三类时,准确率达73.1%,远超人类专家(48%)和B-SOiD(58.43%)。此外,该方法在零样本条件下揭示了加巴喷丁对不同类型疼痛的疗效差异,结果与既有药物有效性文献一致。研究表明,该方法具有潜在临床应用价值,可为疼痛研究及药物开发提供新视角。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Assessing chronic pain behavior in mice is critical for preclinical studies. However, existing methods mostly rely on manual labeling of behavioral features, and humans lack a clear understanding of which behaviors best represent chronic pain. For this reason, existing methods struggle to accurately capture the insidious and persistent behavioral changes in chronic pain. This study proposes a framework to automatically discover features related to chronic pain without relying on human-defined action labels. Our method uses universal action space projector to automatically extract mouse action features, and avoids the potential bias of human labeling by retaining the rich behavioral information in the original video. In this paper, we also collected a mouse pain behavior dataset that captures the disease progression of both neuropathic and inflammatory pain across multiple time points. Our method achieves 48.41\% accuracy in a 15-class pain classification task, significantly outperforming human experts (21.33\%) and the widely used method B-SOiD (30.52\%). Furthermore, when the classification is simplified to only three categories, i.e., neuropathic pain, inflammatory pain, and no pain, then our method achieves an accuracy of 73.1\%, which is notably higher than that of human experts (48\%) and B-SOiD (58.43\%). Finally, our method revealed differences in drug efficacy for different types of pain on zero-shot Gabapentin drug testing, and the results were consistent with past drug efficacy literature. This study demonstrates the potential clinical application of our method, which can provide new insights into pain research and related drug development.

动物行为分析慢性疼痛深度学习自动化标注

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