AUTOMATED SCRATCH DETECTION SYSTEM AND SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHM FOR THE STUDY OF PRURITUS IN ANIMALS

摘要

The invention provides a method for automated assessment of pruritus comprising detecting movement of a band located on a limb of a subject animal so as to obtain a signal associated with the detection movement, processing the signal associated with the detected movement through an algorithm configured to establish a scratch movement trigger, and translating the processed signal into scratch counts.