Using photographs for rating severity degrees of clinical appearance in research mice enables valid discrimination of extreme but not mild and moderate conditions: A pilot study

• Johanne C. Krueger ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jkrueger@uni-bonn.de

  Affiliations Institute for Laboratory Animal Science and Experimental Surgery, RWTH Aachen University, Faculty of Medicine, Aachen, Germany, Animal Welfare Unit, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0948-5425

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• Maren Boecker,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, RWTH Aachen University, Faculty of Medicine, Aachen, Germany

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• Siegfried Gauggel,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, RWTH Aachen University, Faculty of Medicine, Aachen, Germany

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• Andre Bleich,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Rene H. Tolba

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Animal Science and Experimental Surgery, RWTH Aachen University, Faculty of Medicine, Aachen, Germany

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