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How do they segment neurons? How can they be sure they are ablating a single neuron?
by frozenport 12y ago
How do they segment neurons? How can they be sure they are ablating a single neuron?
- closetnerd 12y agoThis is an interesting question. I assume they're having to make some statistical estimations for sure.
- etrautmann 12y agosome of their analyses are performed on raw voxels, but individual neurons for ablation experiments can be identified either manually or using video image processing to identify single neurons. It is a hard problem and a number of people are working on improving it, but for many analyses it may not be strictly necessary as a preprocessing step.