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ArticleNature methods2023

D-LMBmap: a fully automated deep-learning pipeline for whole-brain profiling of neural circuitry.

Zhongyu Li, Zengyi Shang, Jingyi Liu, Haotian Zhen, Entao Zhu, Shilin Zhong, Robyn N Sturgess, Yitian Zhou, Xuemeng Hu, Xingyue Zhao and 4 more

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Article in Nature methods, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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Zhongyu Li *Division of Neurobiology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.
Zengyi Shang *School of Software Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Jingyi Liu *School of Software Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Haotian Zhen *School of Software Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Entao Zhu *School of Software Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Shilin ZhongNational Institute of Biological Sciences (NIBS), Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0295-1294
Robyn N SturgessDivision of Neurobiology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.
Yitian ZhouSchool of Software Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Xuemeng HuSchool of Software Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Xingyue ZhaoSchool of Software Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Yi WuSchool of Software Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Peiqi LiSchool of Software Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Rui LinNational Institute of Biological Sciences (NIBS), Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-883X
Jing RenDivision of Neurobiology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK. jren@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6665-7457

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Medical Research Council MC_UP_1201/22
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent proliferation and integration of tissue-clearing methods and light-sheet fluorescence microscopy has created new opportunities to achieve mesoscale three-dimensional whole-brain connectivity mapping with exceptionally high throughput. With the rapid generation of large, high-quality imaging datasets, downstream analysis is becoming the major technical bottleneck for mesoscale connectomics. Current computational solutions are labor intensive with limited applications because of the exhaustive manual annotation and heavily customized training. Meanwhile, whole-brain data analysis always requires combining multiple packages and secondary development by users. To address these challenges, we developed D-LMBmap, an end-to-end package providing an integrated workflow containing three modules based on deep-learning algorithms for whole-brain connectivity mapping: axon segmentation, brain region segmentation and whole-brain registration. D-LMBmap does not require manual annotation for axon segmentation and achieves quantitative analysis of whole-brain projectome in a single workflow with superior accuracy for multiple cell types in all of the modalities tested.

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Deep LearningImage Processing, Computer-AssistedAlgorithmsBrainBrain Mapping

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