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Five ways deep learning has transformed image analysis

From connectomics to behavioural biology, artificial intelligence is making it faster and easier to extract information from images.
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  1. Sandeep Ravindran

    1. Sandeep Ravindran is a science writer based in Bethesda, Maryland.

A detailed picture of differently coloured connections for a pyramidal cell, generated with artificial intelligence

Neurons (teal) can have thousands of connections to other cells. Credit: Lichtman Lab, Harvard/Jain Group, Google

One cubic millimetre doesn’t sound like much. But in the human brain, that volume of tissue contains some 50,000 neural ‘wires’ connected by 134 million synapses. Jeff Lichtman wanted to trace them all.

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Nature 609, 864-866 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02964-6

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