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ArticleCell reports methods2025

Unifying community whole-brain imaging datasets enables robust neuron identification and reveals determinants of neuron position in C. elegans.

Daniel Y Sprague, Kevin Rusch, Raymond L Dunn, Jackson M Borchardt, Steven Ban, Greg Bubnis, Grace C Chiu, Chentao Wen, Ryoga Suzuki, Shivesh Chaudhary and 9 more

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Article in Cell reports methods, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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19 authors.

Daniel Y SpragueDepartment of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Kevin RuschDepartment of Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA.
Raymond L DunnDepartment of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Jackson M BorchardtDepartment of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Steven BanDepartment of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Greg BubnisDepartment of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Grace C ChiuDepartment of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Chentao WenRIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan.
Ryoga SuzukiGraduate School of Science, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Aichi 467-8501, Japan.
Shivesh ChaudharySchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
Hyun Jee LeeSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
Zikai YuSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
Benjamin DichterCatalystNeuro, LLC, Casper, WY 82601, USA.
Ryan LyScientific Data Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Shuichi OnamiRIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan.
Hang LuSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
Koutarou D KimuraGraduate School of Science, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Aichi 467-8501, Japan.
Eviatar YeminiDepartment of Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA. Electronic address: eviatar.yemini@umassmed.edu.
Saul KatoDepartment of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. Electronic address: saul.kato@ucsf.edu.

Funding

DANDI: Distributed Archives for Neurophysiology Data IntegrationR24MH117295 · NIMH · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI Satrajit Sujit Ghosh, Yaroslav O Halchenko · 2019 to 2026
$11.6M
Evaluation and optimization of NWB neurophysiology software and data in the cloudU24NS120057 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIF-LAWRENC BERKELEY LAB · PI DICHTER, BENJAMIN K, RUEBEL, OLIVER · 2021 to 2025
$5.9M
Modularly built, complete, coordinate- and template-free brain atlasesR01MH130064 · NIMH · GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LU, HANG, ZHANG, YUN · 2022 to 2025
$2.6M
Emergence of Functional Network Dynamics from Single Cell PropertiesR35GM124735 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI KATO, SAUL S · 2017 to 2021
$1.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM124735NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH130064NIMH NIH HHS R24 MH117295NINDS NIH HHS U24 NS120057
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We develop a data harmonization approach for C. elegans volumetric microscopy data, consisting of a standardized format, pre-processing techniques, and human-in-the-loop machine-learning-based analysis tools. Using this approach, we unify a diverse collection of 118 whole-brain neural activity imaging datasets from five labs, storing these and accompanying tools in an online repository WormID (wormid.org). With this repository, we train three existing automated cell-identification algorithms, CPD, StatAtlas, and CRF_ID, to enable accuracy that generalizes across labs, recovering all human-labeled neurons in some cases. We mine this repository to identify factors that influence the developmental positioning of neurons. This growing resource of data, code, apps, and tutorials enables users to (1) study neuroanatomical organization and neural activity across diverse experimental paradigms, (2) develop and benchmark algorithms for automated neuron detection, segmentation, cell identification, tracking, and activity extraction, and (3) share data with the community and comply with data-sharing policies.

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BrainCaenorhabditis elegansNeuroimagingNeuronsAlgorithmsAnimalsHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMachine Learningcalcium imagingC. elegansCP: neuroscienceCP: systems biologyDANDIdata corpusmachine learningneuroanatomyneurodevelopmentneuron identificationNWBwhole-brain imaging

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PMID39826553
PMCPMC11840940

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