Detection and skeletonization of single neurons and tracer injections using topological methods

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.02755v1
• Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 20:58:38 GMT
• Title: Detection and skeletonization of single neurons and tracer injections using topological methods
• Authors: Dingkang Wang, Lucas Magee, Bing-Xing Huo, Samik Banerjee, Xu Li, Jaikishan Jayakumar, Meng Kuan Lin, Keerthi Ram, Suyi Wang, Yusu Wang, Partha P. Mitra
• Abstract summary: We introduce methods from Discrete Morse (DM) Theory to extract the tree-skeletons of individual neurons from brain image data. For individual skeletonization of neurons we obtain substantial performance gains over state-of-the-art non-topological methods. The consensus-tree summary of tracer injections incorporates the regional connectivity matrix information.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Neuroscientific data analysis has traditionally relied on linear algebra and stochastic process theory. However, the tree-like shapes of neurons cannot be described easily as points in a vector space (the subtraction of two neuronal shapes is not a meaningful operation), and methods from computational topology are better suited to their analysis. Here we introduce methods from Discrete Morse (DM) Theory to extract the tree-skeletons of individual neurons from volumetric brain image data, and to summarize collections of neurons labelled by tracer injections. Since individual neurons are topologically trees, it is sensible to summarize the collection of neurons using a consensus tree-shape that provides a richer information summary than the traditional regional 'connectivity matrix' approach. The conceptually elegant DM approach lacks hand-tuned parameters and captures global properties of the data as opposed to previous approaches which are inherently local. For individual skeletonization of sparsely labelled neurons we obtain substantial performance gains over state-of-the-art non-topological methods (over 10% improvements in precision and faster proofreading). The consensus-tree summary of tracer injections incorporates the regional connectivity matrix information, but in addition captures the collective collateral branching patterns of the set of neurons connected to the injection site, and provides a bridge between single-neuron morphology and tracer-injection data.

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