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Two-photon calcium imaging provides large-scale recordings of neuronal activities at cellular resolution. A robust, automated and high-speed pipeline to simultaneously segment the spatial footprints of neurons and extract their temporal activity traces while decontaminating them from background, noise and overlapping neurons is highly desirable to analyse calcium imaging data. Here we demonstrate DeepCaImX, an end-to-end deep learning method based on an iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm and a long short-term memory neural network to achieve the above goals altogether at a very high speed and without any manually tuned hyperparameter. DeepCaImX is a multi-task, multi-class and multi-label segmentation method composed of a compressed sensing-inspired neural network with a recurrent layer and fully connected layers. The neural network can simultaneously generate accurate neuronal footprints and extract clean neuronal activity traces from calcium imaging data. We trained the neural network with simulated datasets and benchmarked it against existing state-of-the-art methods with in vivo experimental data. DeepCaImX outperforms existing methods in the quality of segmentation and temporal trace extraction as well as processing speed. DeepCaImX is highly scalable and will benefit the analysis of mesoscale calcium imaging.
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Archetypal Analysis for neuronal clique detection in low-rate calcium fluorescence imaging
Archetypal analysis (AA) is a versatile data analysis method to cluster distinct features within a data set. Here, we demonstrate a framework showing the power of AA to spatio-temporally resolve events in calcium imaging, an imaging modality commonly used in neurobiology and neuroscience to capture neuronal communication patterns. After validation of our AA-based approach on synthetic data sets, we were able to characterize neuronal communication patterns in recorded calcium waves. Clinical relevance– Transient calcium events play an essential role in brain cell communication, growth, and network formation, as well as in neurodegeneration. To reliably interpret calcium events from personalized medicine data, where patterns may differ from patient to patient, appropriate image processing and signal analysis methods need to be developed for optimal network characterization.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1846271
- PAR ID:
- 10326631
- Publisher / Repository:
- IEEE
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- IEEE Xplore digital library
- ISSN:
- 2473-2001
- ISBN:
- 978-1-7281-2782-8
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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