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Efficient and accurate extraction of in vivo calcium signals from microendoscopic video data

  1. Pengcheng Zhou  Is a corresponding author
  2. Shanna L Resendez
  3. Jose Rodriguez-Romaguera
  4. Jessica C Jimenez
  5. Shay Q Neufeld
  6. Andrea Giovannucci
  7. Johannes Friedrich
  8. Eftychios A Pnevmatikakis
  9. Garret D Stuber
  10. Rene Hen
  11. Mazen A Kheirbek
  12. Bernardo L Sabatini
  13. Robert E Kass
  14. Liam Paninski
  1. Carnegie Mellon University, United States
  2. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
  3. Columbia University, United States
  4. Harvard Medical School, United States
  5. Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, United States
  6. University of California, San Francisco, United States
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Cite this article as: eLife 2018;7:e28728 doi: 10.7554/eLife.28728

Abstract

In vivo calcium imaging through microendoscopic lenses enables imaging of previously inaccessible neuronal populations deep within the brains of freely moving animals. However, it is computationally challenging to extract single-neuronal activity from microendoscopic data, because of the very large background fluctuations and high spatial overlaps intrinsic to this recording modality. Here, we describe a new constrained matrix factorization approach to accurately separate the background and then demix and denoise the neuronal signals of interest. We compared the proposed method against previous independent components analysis and constrained nonnegative matrix factorization approaches. On both simulated and experimental data recorded from mice, our method substantially improved the quality of extracted cellular signals and detected more well-isolated neural signals, especially in noisy data regimes. These advances can in turn significantly enhance the statistical power of downstream analyses, and ultimately improve scientific conclusions derived from microendoscopic data.

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  1. Pengcheng Zhou

    Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States
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  2. Shanna L Resendez

    Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
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  3. Jose Rodriguez-Romaguera

    Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
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  4. Jessica C Jimenez

    Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, United States
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  5. Shay Q Neufeld

    Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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  6. Andrea Giovannucci

    Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, New York, United States
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  7. Johannes Friedrich

    Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, New York, United States
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    ORCID icon "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0002-1321-5866

  8. Eftychios A Pnevmatikakis

    Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, New York, United States
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  9. Garret D Stuber

    Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
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    ORCID icon "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0003-1730-4855

  10. Rene Hen

    Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, United States
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  11. Mazen A Kheirbek

    Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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  12. Bernardo L Sabatini

    Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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  13. Robert E Kass

    Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States
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  14. Liam Paninski

    Department of Statistics, Columbia University, Columbia, United States
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Funding

National Institute of Mental Health

  • Pengcheng Zhou
  • Jessica C Jimenez
  • Rene Hen
  • Mazen A Kheirbek
  • Robert E Kass

New York State Stem Cell Science

  • Jessica C Jimenez
  • Rene Hen

Hope for Depression Research Foundation

  • Jessica C Jimenez
  • Rene Hen

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

  • Shay Q Neufeld

Simons Foundation

  • Andrea Giovannucci
  • Johannes Friedrich
  • Eftychios A Pnevmatikakis
  • Garret D Stuber
  • Liam Paninski

International Mental Health Research Organization

  • Mazen A Kheirbek

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

  • Bernardo L Sabatini

National Institute on Drug Abuse

  • Pengcheng Zhou
  • Jose Rodriguez-Romaguera
  • Garret D Stuber

Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity

  • Pengcheng Zhou
  • Liam Paninski

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

  • Liam Paninski

Army Research Office

  • Liam Paninski

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

  • Liam Paninski

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

  • Shanna L Resendez
  • Garret D Stuber

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

  • Jessica C Jimenez

National Institute on Aging

  • Jessica C Jimenez
  • Rene Hen

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Animal experimentation: These procedures were conducted in accordance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, as adopted by the NIH, and with approval from the Harvard Standing Committee on Animal Care (protocol number: IS00000571 ), or the University of North Carolina Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (UNC IACUC, protocol number: 16-075.0), or the New York State Psychiatric Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (protocol number: NYSPI-1412 ).

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  1. David C Van Essen, Washington University in St. Louis, United States

Publication history

  1. Received: May 19, 2017
  2. Accepted: February 20, 2018
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: February 22, 2018 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: March 27, 2018 (version 2)

Copyright

© 2018, Zhou et al.

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.

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