RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 SpineS: An interactive time-series analysis software for dendritic spines
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 2020.09.12.294546
DO 10.1101/2020.09.12.294546
A1 Ali Özgür Argunşah
A1 Ertunç Erdil
A1 Muhammad Usman Ghani
A1 Yazmín Ramiro Cortés
A1 Anna Felicity Hobbiss
A1 Theofanis Karayannis
A1 Müjdat Çetin
A1 Inbal Israely
A1 Devrim Ünay
YR 2020
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/09/14/2020.09.12.294546.abstract
AB Live fluorescence imaging has shown the dynamic nature of dendritic spines, with changes in shape occurring both during development and in response to activity. The structure of a dendritic spine positively correlates with its functional efficacy. Learning and memory studies have shown that great deal of the information stored by a neuron is contained in the synapses. High precision tracking of synaptic structures can give hints about the dynamic nature of memory and help us to understand how memories evolve both in biological and artificial neural networks. Experiments that aim to investigate the dynamics behind the structural changes of dendritic spines require the collection and analysis of large time-series datasets. In this paper, we present an open-source software called SpineS for the automatic longitudinal structural analysis of dendritic spines with additional features for manual intervention to ensure optimal analysis. Our extensive experimental analyses on multiple datasets demonstrate that SpineS can achieve a high-level performance on samples collected both by two-photon and confocal imaging systems.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.