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ArticleNature communications2019

Learning cellular morphology with neural networks.

Philipp J Schubert, Sven Dorkenwald, Michał Januszewski, Viren Jain, Joergen Kornfeld

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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5 authors.

Philipp J SchubertMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Electrons - Photons - Neurons, 82152, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany. pschubert@neuro.mpg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1265-3028
Sven DorkenwaldMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Electrons - Photons - Neurons, 82152, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany.
Michał JanuszewskiGoogle AI, Zurich, 8002, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3480-2744
Viren JainGoogle AI, Mountain View, 94043, CA, USA.
Joergen KornfeldMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Electrons - Photons - Neurons, 82152, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany. kornfeld@neuro.mpg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2547-8700

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reconstruction and annotation of volume electron microscopy data sets of brain tissue is challenging but can reveal invaluable information about neuronal circuits. Significant progress has recently been made in automated neuron reconstruction as well as automated detection of synapses. However, methods for automating the morphological analysis of nanometer-resolution reconstructions are less established, despite the diversity of possible applications. Here, we introduce cellular morphology neural networks (CMNs), based on multi-view projections sampled from automatically reconstructed cellular fragments of arbitrary size and shape. Using unsupervised training, we infer morphology embeddings (Neuron2vec) of neuron reconstructions and train CMNs to identify glia cells in a supervised classification paradigm, which are then used to resolve neuron reconstruction errors. Finally, we demonstrate that CMNs can be used to identify subcellular compartments and the cell types of neuron reconstructions.

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Neural Networks, ComputerSynapsesAlgorithmsAnimalsBrainDatasets as TopicFeasibility StudiesImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMaleMicroscopy, ElectronNeuronsPasseriformes

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PMID31227718
PMCPMC6588634

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