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 …

Morphological diversity of single neurons in molecularly defined cell types

H Peng, P Xie, L Liu, X Kuang, Y Wang, L Qu, H Gong… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Dendritic and axonal morphology reflects the input and output of neurons and is a defining
feature of neuronal types,, yet our knowledge of its diversity remains limited. Here, to …

High-throughput imaging: Focusing in on drug discovery in 3D

L Li, Q Zhou, TC Voss, KL Quick, DV LaBarbera - Methods, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract 3D organotypic culture models such as organoids and multicellular tumor spheroids
(MCTS) are becoming more widely used for drug discovery and toxicology screening. As a …

High-throughput mapping of a whole rhesus monkey brain at micrometer resolution

F Xu, Y Shen, L Ding, CY Yang, H Tan, H Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Whole-brain mesoscale mapping in primates has been hindered by large brain sizes and
the relatively low throughput of available microscopy methods. Here, we present an …

A platform for brain-wide imaging and reconstruction of individual neurons

MN Economo, NG Clack, LD Lavis, CR Gerfen… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
The structure of axonal arbors controls how signals from individual neurons are routed
within the mammalian brain. However, the arbors of very few long-range projection neurons …

Whole-body tissue stabilization and selective extractions via tissue-hydrogel hybrids for high-resolution intact circuit mapping and phenotyping

JB Treweek, KY Chan, NC Flytzanis, B Yang… - Nature protocols, 2015 - nature.com
To facilitate fine-scale phenotyping of whole specimens, we describe here a set of tissue
fixation-embedding, detergent-clearing and staining protocols that can be used to transform …

BigNeuron: large-scale 3D neuron reconstruction from optical microscopy images

H Peng, M Hawrylycz, J Roskams, S Hill, N Spruston… - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
Understanding the structure of single neurons is critical for understanding how they function
within neural circuits. BigNeuron is a new community effort that combines modern …

[HTML][HTML] NBLAST: rapid, sensitive comparison of neuronal structure and construction of neuron family databases

M Costa, JD Manton, AD Ostrovsky, S Prohaska… - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
Neural circuit mapping is generating datasets of tens of thousands of labeled neurons. New
computational tools are needed to search and organize these data. We present NBLAST, a …

TeraVR empowers precise reconstruction of complete 3-D neuronal morphology in the whole brain

Y Wang, Q Li, L Liu, Z Zhou, Z Ruan, L Kong… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Neuron morphology is recognized as a key determinant of cell type, yet the quantitative
profiling of a mammalian neuron's complete three-dimensional (3-D) morphology remains …

Live volumetric (4D) visualization and guidance of in vivo human ophthalmic surgery with intraoperative optical coherence tomography

OM Carrasco-Zevallos, B Keller, C Viehland, L Shen… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Minimally-invasive microsurgery has resulted in improved outcomes for patients. However,
operating through a microscope limits depth perception and fixes the visual perspective …