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I'm curious. Why store this in voxels? Why not use data structures that that represent the network and that lend themselves to computation?
by not_your_mentat 2y ago
I'm curious. Why store this in voxels? Why not use data structures that that represent the network and that lend themselves to computation?
- oersted 2y agoThey are just recording the raw imaging data to enable that type of analysis, which is hard enough. I imagine it must be quite complex to interpret the biological structure as a logical network, tissues are messy and there are many types of neurons and communication modes. I'm not sure if it's even possible to infer how electric signals will propagate just from a static picture, however detailed it is, do we know how each specific neuron and synapse will behave? We have a general mathematical model, but do we know how the morphology of each element affects its behaviour? This is probably is a whole other massive research project after this.
- Cacti 2y agohealth scans from eg MRIs are often given in voxels