FISSA: A neuropil decontamination toolbox for calcium imaging signals
In vivo calcium imaging has become a method of choice to image neuronal population activity throughout the nervous system. These experiments generate large sequences of images. Their analysis is computationally intensive and typically involves motion correction, image segmentation into regions of in...
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| author | Keemink, Sander W. Lowe, Scott C. Pakan, Janelle M.P. Dylda, Evelyn van Rossum, Mark C.W. Rochefort, Nathalie L. |
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| description | In vivo calcium imaging has become a method of choice to image neuronal population activity throughout the nervous system. These experiments generate large sequences of images. Their analysis is computationally intensive and typically involves motion correction, image segmentation into regions of interest (ROIs), and extraction of fluorescence traces of each ROI. Out of focus fluorescence from surrounding neuropil and other cells can strongly contaminate the signal assigned to a given ROI. In this study, we introduce the FISSA toolbox (Fast Image Signal Separation Analysis) for neuropil decontamination. Given pre-defined ROIs, the FISSA toolbox automatically extracts the surrounding local neuropil and performs blind-source separation with non-negative matrix factorization. Using both simulated and in vivo data, we show that this toolbox performs similarly or better than existing published methods. FISSA requires only little RAM, allowing for fast processing of large datasets even on a standard laptop. The FISSA toolbox is available in Python, with an option for MATLAB format outputs, and can easily be integrated into existing workflows. It is available from Github and the standard Python repositories. |
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| spelling | nottingham-499362020-05-04T19:33:19Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49936/ FISSA: A neuropil decontamination toolbox for calcium imaging signals Keemink, Sander W. Lowe, Scott C. Pakan, Janelle M.P. Dylda, Evelyn van Rossum, Mark C.W. Rochefort, Nathalie L. In vivo calcium imaging has become a method of choice to image neuronal population activity throughout the nervous system. These experiments generate large sequences of images. Their analysis is computationally intensive and typically involves motion correction, image segmentation into regions of interest (ROIs), and extraction of fluorescence traces of each ROI. Out of focus fluorescence from surrounding neuropil and other cells can strongly contaminate the signal assigned to a given ROI. In this study, we introduce the FISSA toolbox (Fast Image Signal Separation Analysis) for neuropil decontamination. Given pre-defined ROIs, the FISSA toolbox automatically extracts the surrounding local neuropil and performs blind-source separation with non-negative matrix factorization. Using both simulated and in vivo data, we show that this toolbox performs similarly or better than existing published methods. FISSA requires only little RAM, allowing for fast processing of large datasets even on a standard laptop. The FISSA toolbox is available in Python, with an option for MATLAB format outputs, and can easily be integrated into existing workflows. It is available from Github and the standard Python repositories. Nature Publishing Group 2018-02-22 Article PeerReviewed Keemink, Sander W., Lowe, Scott C., Pakan, Janelle M.P., Dylda, Evelyn, van Rossum, Mark C.W. and Rochefort, Nathalie L. (2018) FISSA: A neuropil decontamination toolbox for calcium imaging signals. Scientific Reports, 8 . p. 3493. ISSN 2045-2322 calcium imaging two-photon source separation signal extraction neuropil contamination NMF GCamP6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21640-2 doi:10.1038/s41598-018-21640-2 doi:10.1038/s41598-018-21640-2 |
| spellingShingle | calcium imaging two-photon source separation signal extraction neuropil contamination NMF GCamP6 Keemink, Sander W. Lowe, Scott C. Pakan, Janelle M.P. Dylda, Evelyn van Rossum, Mark C.W. Rochefort, Nathalie L. FISSA: A neuropil decontamination toolbox for calcium imaging signals |
| title | FISSA: A neuropil decontamination toolbox for calcium imaging signals |
| title_full | FISSA: A neuropil decontamination toolbox for calcium imaging signals |
| title_fullStr | FISSA: A neuropil decontamination toolbox for calcium imaging signals |
| title_full_unstemmed | FISSA: A neuropil decontamination toolbox for calcium imaging signals |
| title_short | FISSA: A neuropil decontamination toolbox for calcium imaging signals |
| title_sort | fissa: a neuropil decontamination toolbox for calcium imaging signals |
| topic | calcium imaging two-photon source separation signal extraction neuropil contamination NMF GCamP6 |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49936/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49936/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49936/ |