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> The connectome of the larval fly, published Friday in the journal Science, took 12 years to complete. Imaging a single neuron required about a day... > Human
by GordonS 4y ago
> The connectome of the larval fly, published Friday in the journal Science, took 12 years to complete. Imaging a single neuron required about a day...
> Human brains have an estimated 86 billion neurons and hundreds of trillions of synapses...
So, the techniques used for the fly are totally impractical for humans, or presumably any mammal. Anyone know of any developments that may help? Maybe AI could be used to automate processing of the images?
- kuprel 4y ago“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.” Maybe AI can though
- notfed 4y agoAsking AI to map human brains...what could possibly go wrong?
- dredog 4y agoYep, this is already happening. I think it’s called ‘automatic segmentation’.
- undersuit 4y agoDo we need to image all 86 billion? A sampling of cells throughout the brain and a simulation of a cell such that we can figure out how 1 fertilized egg can become 86 billion neurons and change. We can throw compute power at that, we don't really have brains to throw at the problem.
- inportb 4y agoMore like totally impractical for living specimens that you want to continue living meaningfully.
- moonbreams 4y agoThe sell with this kind of research is that doing it will lead to order of magnitude gains in complexity - compare the time it took to sequence the first fruit fly genome with the time it takes today