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    • Neuroscience
    • Behavioral Science
    • Pharmacology

    Background:

    • Accurate quantification of opioid withdrawal behaviors in preclinical models is essential for advancing treatments for opioid use disorder (OUD).
    • Current methods for measuring these behaviors are often subjective and lack scalability, posing challenges for researchers.
    • Individual variations in behavior and the subtle nature of withdrawal symptoms complicate objective measurement.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop and validate a scalable behavioral analysis pipeline, LUPE (Light Automated Pain Evaluator), for quantifying opioid withdrawal behaviors.
    • To integrate advanced computational tools for automated pose estimation and behavior classification.
    • To establish a standardized, high-resolution method for behavior quantification in preclinical OUD research.

    Main Methods:

    • Development of LUPE, an open-source framework combining video acquisition, markerless pose estimation (DeepLabCut), and active learning for behavior classification (A-SOiD).
    • Hand-annotation of specific opioid withdrawal behaviors (jumping, genital licking, grooming, paw tremors) and normal behaviors using BORIS.
    • Utilizing pose data and annotations within A-SOiD for supervised and unsupervised classification of mouse behaviors during naloxone-precipitated withdrawal.

    Main Results:

    • The LUPE pipeline successfully integrated video analysis, pose estimation, and behavior classification.
    • A-SOiD effectively detected longer-duration behaviors like grooming and rearing, but struggled with rapid, transient behaviors such as jumping and paw tremors.
    • Ongoing refinement of the models is underway to improve the detection of all withdrawal-related behaviors.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed LUPE pipeline provides a foundation for standardized, high-resolution quantification of preclinical opioid withdrawal behaviors.
    • This automated approach has the potential to significantly improve the efficiency and objectivity of OUD research.
    • Further application of the pipeline to diverse datasets is expected to reveal novel components of the withdrawal phenotype.