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The article describes it as slicing the fly brain into very thin slices, which are imaged by an electron microscope. Then you analyze the slice images and dete
by BurningFrog 2y ago
The article describes it as slicing the fly brain into very thin slices, which are imaged by an electron microscope.
Then you analyze the slice images and determine the neurons and their connection. This is the hard part, and the breakthrough is an AI based method.
Pretty sure they've only mapped one brain so far.
- LeifCarrotson 2y agoFortunately, the whole chain of slicing, imaging, and analysis are now at least partially automated, so in theory you can repeat the process with nothing more than some time on the equipment and a bit of compute. In practice, I suspect there's a fair bit of grad student manual labor that keeps the pipeline flowing...
- roywiggins 2y agoThey crowdsourced three million manual corrections to the AI output, yeah.
- int_19h 2y agoThat sounds like a great training set then.