SynEM, automated synapse detection for connectomics.

Abstract:

:Nerve tissue contains a high density of chemical synapses, about 1 per µm3 in the mammalian cerebral cortex. Thus, even for small blocks of nerve tissue, dense connectomic mapping requires the identification of millions to billions of synapses. While the focus of connectomic data analysis has been on neurite reconstruction, synapse detection becomes limiting when datasets grow in size and dense mapping is required. Here, we report SynEM, a method for automated detection of synapses from conventionally en-bloc stained 3D electron microscopy image stacks. The approach is based on a segmentation of the image data and focuses on classifying borders between neuronal processes as synaptic or non-synaptic. SynEM yields 97% precision and recall in binary cortical connectomes with no user interaction. It scales to large volumes of cortical neuropil, plausibly even whole-brain datasets. SynEM removes the burden of manual synapse annotation for large densely mapped connectomes.

journal_name

Elife

journal_title

eLife

authors

Staffler B,Berning M,Boergens KM,Gour A,Smagt PV,Helmstaedter M

doi

10.7554/eLife.26414

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-07-14 00:00:00

issn

2050-084X

journal_volume

6

pub_type

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