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ArticleIEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics2024

A Visual Interface for Exploring Hypotheses About Neural Circuits.

Sumit Kumar Vohra, Philipp Harth, Yasuko Isoe, Armin Bahl, Haleh Fotowat, Florian Engert, Hans-Christian Hege, Daniel Baum

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Article in IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Vimo - Visual Analysis of Neuronal Connectivity Motifs.IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Sumit Kumar Vohra
Philipp Harth
Yasuko Isoe
Armin Bahl
Haleh Fotowat
Florian Engert
Hans-Christian Hege
Daniel Baum
Zuse Institute Berlin · DEHarvard University · USUniversity of Konstanz · DE

Funding

Zooming into the fish's brain-What is really going on! Connectomics analysis of larval zebrafish.U19NS104653 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI Randal Burns, Florian Engert · 2017 to 2026
$39.4M
Genetic and neural mechanisms underlying emerging social behavior in zebrafishRF1NS124017 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI ENGERT, FLORIAN, FISHMAN, MARK C · 2021 to 2021
$2.5M
Genetic and neural mechanisms underlying emerging social behavior in zebrafishR01NS124017 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI ENGERT, FLORIAN, FISHMAN, MARK C · 2024 to 2025
$1.5M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS124017NINDS NIH HHS RF1 NS124017NINDS NIH HHS U19 NS104653
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One of the fundamental problems in neurobiological research is to understand how neural circuits generate behaviors in response to sensory stimuli. Elucidating such neural circuits requires anatomical and functional information about the neurons that are active during the processing of the sensory information and generation of the respective response, as well as an identification of the connections between these neurons. With modern imaging techniques, both morphological properties of individual neurons as well as functional information related to sensory processing, information integration and behavior can be obtained. Given the resulting information, neurobiologists are faced with the task of identifying the anatomical structures down to individual neurons that are linked to the studied behavior and the processing of the respective sensory stimuli. Here, we present a novel interactive tool that assists neurobiologists in the aforementioned tasks by allowing them to extract hypothetical neural circuits constrained by anatomical and functional data. Our approach is based on two types of structural data: brain regions that are anatomically or functionally defined, and morphologies of individual neurons. Both types of structural data are interlinked and augmented with additional information. The presented tool allows the expert user to identify neurons using Boolean queries. The interactive formulation of these queries is supported by linked views, using, among other things, two novel 2D abstractions of neural circuits. The approach was validated in two case studies investigating the neural basis of vision-based behavioral responses in zebrafish larvae. Despite this particular application, we believe that the presented tool will be of general interest for exploring hypotheses about neural circuits in other species, genera and taxa.

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Computer GraphicsAnimalsBrainModels, NeurologicalNerve NetNeuronsUser-Computer InterfaceZebrafish

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PMID37022819
PMCPMC11252567
OpenAlexW4319663634

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