eigenworm

From eigen- +‎ worm.

eigenworm (plural eigenworms)

1. Any of the fundamental movements that make up the wiggles of a worm
   • 2015 July 2, Florian Markowetz, Michael Boutros, Systems Genetics: Linking Genotypes and Phenotypes, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 243:

     This extends the applicability of the eigenworm representation and provides a common and compact basis for capturing worm postures.

   • 2019 January 22, Laura Leal-Taixé, Stefan Roth, Computer Vision – ECCV 2018 Workshops: Munich, Germany, September 8-14, 2018, Proceedings, Part VI, Springer, →ISBN, page 461:

     This suggests that there is some relevant information that is lost in the eigenworm transform.

   • 2025 April 15, Nachum Ulanovsky, Natural Neuroscience: Toward a Systems Neuroscience of Natural Behaviors, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 76:

     […] They illustrated the power of this approach by analyzing the behavior of mutant strains of C. elegans, which did not differ in their classical behaviors as defined via traditional ethograms , but they did differ substan- tially in the detailed statistics of their behavior , as quantified by projecting their behavior onto a 4D eigenworm space.

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