Direct Extraction of Signal and Noise Correlations from Two-Photon Calcium Imaging of Ensemble Neuronal Activity
- University of Maryland, College Park, United States
Abstract
Neuronal activity correlations are key to understanding how populations of neurons collectively encode information. While two-photon calcium imaging has created a unique opportunity to record the activity of large populations of neurons, existing methods for inferring correlations from these data face several challenges. First, the observations of spiking activity produced by two-photon imaging are temporally blurred and noisy. Secondly, even if the spiking data were perfectly recovered via deconvolution, inferring network-level features from binary spiking data is a challenging task due to the non-linear relation of neuronal spiking to endogenous and exogenous inputs. In this work, we propose a methodology to explicitly model and directly estimate signal and noise correlations from two-photon fluorescence observations, without requiring intermediate spike deconvolution. We provide theoretical guarantees on the performance of the proposed estimator and demonstrate its utility through applications to simulated and experimentally recorded data from the mouse auditory cortex.
Data availability
A MATLAB implementation of the proposed method has been archived in Github at https://github.com/Anuththara-Rupasinghe/Signal-Noise-Correlation. The data used in this work have been deposited in the Digital Repository at the University of Maryland at http://hdl.handle.net/1903/26917.
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Experimental Data from `Direct Extraction of Signal and Noise Correlations from Two-Photon Calcium Imaging of Ensemble Neuronal Activity'Digital Repository at the University of Maryland.
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Author details
Anuththara Rupasinghe
Funding
National Science Foundation (1807216)
- Behtash Babadi
National Science Foundation (2032649)
- Behtash Babadi
National Institutes of Health (1U19NS107464)
- Behtash Babadi
National Institutes of Health (1U19NS107464)
- Patrick O Kanold
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Reviewing Editor
- Brice Bathellier, CNRS, France
Ethics
Animal experimentation: All procedures, under Kanold lab protocol R-JAN-19-06, conformed to the guidelines of the University of Maryland Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health.
Version history
- Received: March 3, 2021
- Accepted: June 27, 2021
- Accepted Manuscript published: June 28, 2021 (version 1)
- Version of Record published: August 10, 2021 (version 2)
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© 2021, Rupasinghe 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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Direct Extraction of Signal and Noise Correlations from Two-Photon Calcium Imaging of Ensemble Neuronal Activity
eLife 10:e68046.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.68046
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