Network of 75 Million Neurons of the Mouse Brain Mapped for the First Time

Re:Network of 75 Million Neurons of the Mouse Brain Mapped f... by tmragan on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @09:43PM (#7595518)

Excuse the plug, but I’m Tim Ragan the CEO of TissueVision. We’re the MIT startup who developed the microscope technology responsible for all the mouse brain images in the Allen Connectivity map that you see here.

We’re thrilled to have been a part of this groundbreaking project. If you’re excited about this sort of science too, drop me a line. We’re hiring talented developers who can push not just the microscope technology but also the super cool bioinformatics just waiting to be mined from these and other projects.

Tim

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Re:Network of 75 Million Neurons of the Mouse Brain Mapped f... by gone35 on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @03:08AM (#7596496)

Wow just wanted to say thank you for developing this technology. From your white paper [1] I can see how serial two-photon tomography is a huge leap in imaging and a crucial platform tool for the kind of ambitious large-scale surveys we badly need.

I can see too how your main challenge is going to be registration/segmentation on such huge datasets but there's plenty of ML/computer vision work and talent next door in Cambridge. Maybe pair-up or present a poster during the incoming New England Machine Learning day at Microsoft Research this May 13th? (Poster deadline April 25) [2]. Good luck with your recruiting!

[1] http://www.tissuevision.com/nihms344616.pdf

[2] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/neml2014/

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