Neuron tracing from light microscopy images: automation, deep learning and bench testing

Y Liu, G Wang, GA Ascoli, J Zhou, L Liu - Bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Large-scale neuronal morphologies are essential to neuronal typing, connectivity
characterization and brain modeling. It is widely accepted that automation is critical to the …

[HTML][HTML] Mesoscale microscopy and image analysis tools for understanding the brain

AL Tyson, TW Margrie - Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the last ten years, developments in whole-brain microscopy now allow for high-
resolution imaging of intact brains of small animals such as mice. These complex images …

Developmental mouse brain common coordinate framework

FN Kronman, JK Liwang, R Betty, DJ Vanselow… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract 3D brain atlases are key resources to understand the brain's spatial organization
and promote interoperability across different studies. However, unlike the adult mouse brain …

Massive multiplexing of spatially resolved single neuron projections with axonal BARseq

L Yuan, X Chen, H Zhan, GL Henry… - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Neurons in the cortex are heterogeneous, sending diverse axonal projections to multiple
brain regions. Unraveling the logic of these projections requires single-neuron resolution …

Microscopy-BIDS: an extension to the brain imaging data structure for microscopy data

MH Bourget, L Kamentsky, SS Ghosh… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) is a specification for organizing, sharing, and
archiving neuroimaging data and metadata in a reusable way. First developed for magnetic …

Seeing the forest and its trees together: implementing 3D light microscopy pipelines for cell type mapping in the mouse brain

KT Newmaster, FA Kronman, Y Wu… - Frontiers in neuroanatomy, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The brain is composed of diverse neuronal and non-neuronal cell types with complex
regional connectivity patterns that create the anatomical infrastructure underlying cognition …

Deciphering spatial domains from spatially resolved transcriptomics with Siamese graph autoencoder

L Cao, C Yang, L Hu, W Jiang, Y Ren, T Xia, M Xu… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background Cell clustering is a pivotal aspect of spatial transcriptomics (ST) data analysis
as it forms the foundation for subsequent data mining. Recent advances in spatial domain …

An optical flow based left-invariant metric for natural gradient descent in affine image registration

DJ Tward - Frontiers in applied mathematics and statistics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Accurate spatial alignment is essential for any population neuroimaging study, and affine
(12 parameter linear/translation) or rigid (6 parameter rotation/translation) alignments play a …

Standard metadata for 3D microscopy

AJ Ropelewski, MA Rizzo, JR Swedlow, J Huisken… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Recent advances in fluorescence microscopy techniques and tissue clearing, labeling, and
staining provide unprecedented opportunities to investigate brain structure and function …

The Brain Image Library: A Community-Contributed Microscopy Resource for Neuroscientists

M Kenney, I Vasylieva, G Hood, I Cao-Berg, L Tuite… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Advancements in microscopy techniques and computing technologies have enabled
researchers to digitally reconstruct brains at micron scale. As a result, community efforts like …