Karl Marrett, Keivan Moradi, Chris Sin Park, Ming Yan, Chris Choi, Muye Zhu, Masood Akram, Sumit Nanda, Qing Xue, Hyun-Seung Mun, Adriana Gutierez, Mitchell Rudd, Brian Zingg, Gabrielle Magat, Kathleen Wijaya, Hongwei Dong, X William Yang, Jason Cong
Neuronal reconstruction-a process that transforms image volumes into 3D geometries and skeletons of cells- bottlenecks the study of brain function, connectomics and pathology. Unlike artistic domains with similar challenges (e.g., hair modeling), scientists need exact and complete segmentations to study subtle topological differences. Existing methods are diskbound, dense-access, coupled, single-threaded, algorithmically unscalable and require manual cropping of small windows and proofreading of skeletons due to low topological accuracy...
April 9, 2024: bioRxiv