Dense reconstruction of brain-wide neuronal population close to the ground truth
Abstract
Recent progresses allow imaging specific neuronal populations at single-axon level across mouse brain. However, digital reconstruction of neurons in large dataset requires months of human labor. Here, we developed a tool to solve this problem. Our tool offers a special error-screening system for fast localization of submicron errors in densely packed neurites and along long projection across the whole brain, thus achieving reconstruction close to the ground-truth. Moreover, our tool equips algorithms that significantly reduce intensive manual interferences and achieve high-level automation, with speed 5 times faster compared to semi-automatic tools. We also demonstrated reconstruction of 35 long projection neurons around one injection site of a mouse brain at an affordable time cost. Our tool is applicable with datasets of 10 TB or higher from various light microscopy, and provides a starting point for the reconstruction of neuronal population for neuroscience studies at a single-cell level.
Footnotes
↵* Email: quantingwei{at}hust.edu.cn and sqzeng{at}mail.hust.edu.cn
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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