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Carbonero D, Noueihed J, Kramer MA, White JA. Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for Analyzing State Dependent Neuronal Network Dynamics in Calcium Recordings. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2023.10.11.561797. [PMID: 37905071 PMCID: PMC10614735 DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.11.561797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2023]
Abstract
Calcium imaging allows recording from hundreds of neurons in vivo with the ability to resolve single cell activity. Evaluating and analyzing neuronal responses, while also considering all dimensions of the data set to make specific conclusions, is extremely difficult. Often, descriptive statistics are used to analyze these forms of data. These analyses, however, remove variance by averaging the responses of single neurons across recording sessions, or across combinations of neurons, to create single quantitative metrics, losing the temporal dynamics of neuronal activity, and their responses relative to each other. Dimensionally Reduction (DR) methods serve as a good foundation for these analyses because they reduce the dimensions of the data into components, while still maintaining the variance. Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is an especially promising DR analysis method for analyzing activity recorded in calcium imaging because of its mathematical constraints, which include positivity and linearity. We adapt NMF for our analyses and compare its performance to alternative dimensionality reduction methods on both artificial and in vivo data. We find that NMF is well-suited for analyzing calcium imaging recordings, accurately capturing the underlying dynamics of the data, and outperforming alternative methods in common use.
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Affiliation(s)
- Daniel Carbonero
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Center for Systems Neuroscience, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Neurophotonics Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Center for Systems Neuroscience, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Neurophotonics Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Center for Systems Neuroscience, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Center for Systems Neuroscience, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Neurophotonics Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Tomé DF, Zhang Y, Aida T, Mosto O, Lu Y, Chen M, Sadeh S, Roy DS, Clopath C. Dynamic and selective engrams emerge with memory consolidation. Nat Neurosci 2024; 27:561-572. [PMID: 38243089 PMCID: PMC10917686 DOI: 10.1038/s41593-023-01551-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2023] [Indexed: 01/21/2024]
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Episodic memories are encoded by experience-activated neuronal ensembles that remain necessary and sufficient for recall. However, the temporal evolution of memory engrams after initial encoding is unclear. In this study, we employed computational and experimental approaches to examine how the neural composition and selectivity of engrams change with memory consolidation. Our spiking neural network model yielded testable predictions: memories transition from unselective to selective as neurons drop out of and drop into engrams; inhibitory activity during recall is essential for memory selectivity; and inhibitory synaptic plasticity during memory consolidation is critical for engrams to become selective. Using activity-dependent labeling, longitudinal calcium imaging and a combination of optogenetic and chemogenetic manipulations in mouse dentate gyrus, we conducted contextual fear conditioning experiments that supported our model's predictions. Our results reveal that memory engrams are dynamic and that changes in engram composition mediated by inhibitory plasticity are crucial for the emergence of memory selectivity.
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- Douglas Feitosa Tomé
- Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
- Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria.
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- McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Center for Life Sciences & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
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- McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Center for Life Sciences & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
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- Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
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Wang S, Zhang Y, Lin X, Su L, Xiao G, Zhu W, Shi Y. Learning matrix factorization with scalable distance metric and regularizer. Neural Netw 2023; 161:254-266. [PMID: 36774864 DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2023.01.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2022] [Revised: 01/17/2023] [Accepted: 01/24/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Matrix factorization has always been an encouraging field, which attempts to extract discriminative features from high-dimensional data. However, it suffers from negative generalization ability and high computational complexity when handling large-scale data. In this paper, we propose a learnable deep matrix factorization via the projected gradient descent method, which learns multi-layer low-rank factors from scalable metric distances and flexible regularizers. Accordingly, solving a constrained matrix factorization problem is equivalently transformed into training a neural network with an appropriate activation function induced from the projection onto a feasible set. Distinct from other neural networks, the proposed method activates the connected weights not just the hidden layers. As a result, it is proved that the proposed method can learn several existing well-known matrix factorizations, including singular value decomposition, convex, nonnegative and semi-nonnegative matrix factorizations. Finally, comprehensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method against other state-of-the-arts.
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- Shiping Wang
- College of Computer and Data Science, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Big Data Computing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 518172, China.
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- College of Computer and Data Science, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China.
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- College of Computer and Data Science, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China.
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- College of Computer and Data Science, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China.
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- College of Computer and Control Engineering, Minjiang University, Fuzhou 350108, China.
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China.
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- College of Photonic and Electronic Engineering, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117, China.
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Nietz AK, Streng ML, Popa LS, Carter RE, Flaherty EB, Aronson JD, Ebner TJ. To be and not to be: wide-field Ca2+ imaging reveals neocortical functional segmentation combines stability and flexibility. Cereb Cortex 2023:7024718. [PMID: 36734268 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2022] [Revised: 12/09/2022] [Accepted: 12/10/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The stability and flexibility of the functional parcellation of the cerebral cortex is fundamental to how familiar and novel information is both represented and stored. We leveraged new advances in Ca2+ sensors and microscopy to understand the dynamics of functional segmentation in the dorsal cerebral cortex. We performed wide-field Ca2+ imaging in head-fixed mice and used spatial independent component analysis (ICA) to identify independent spatial sources of Ca2+ fluorescence. The imaging data were evaluated over multiple timescales and discrete behaviors including resting, walking, and grooming. When evaluated over the entire dataset, a set of template independent components (ICs) were identified that were common across behaviors. Template ICs were present across a range of timescales, from days to 30 seconds, although with lower occurrence probability at shorter timescales, highlighting the stability of the functional segmentation. Importantly, unique ICs emerged at the shorter duration timescales that could act to transiently refine the cortical network. When data were evaluated by behavior, both common and behavior-specific ICs emerged. Each behavior is composed of unique combinations of common and behavior-specific ICs. These observations suggest that cerebral cortical functional segmentation exhibits considerable spatial stability over time and behaviors while retaining the flexibility for task-dependent reorganization.
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- Angela K Nietz
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, 2001 Sixth Street S.E., Minneapolis 55455, MN, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, 2001 Sixth Street S.E., Minneapolis 55455, MN, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, 2001 Sixth Street S.E., Minneapolis 55455, MN, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, 2001 Sixth Street S.E., Minneapolis 55455, MN, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, 2001 Sixth Street S.E., Minneapolis 55455, MN, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, 2001 Sixth Street S.E., Minneapolis 55455, MN, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, 2001 Sixth Street S.E., Minneapolis 55455, MN, United States
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Wide-Field Calcium Imaging of Neuronal Network Dynamics In Vivo. BIOLOGY 2022; 11:biology11111601. [PMID: 36358302 PMCID: PMC9687960 DOI: 10.3390/biology11111601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2022] [Revised: 10/28/2022] [Accepted: 10/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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A central tenet of neuroscience is that sensory, motor, and cognitive behaviors are generated by the communications and interactions among neurons, distributed within and across anatomically and functionally distinct brain regions. Therefore, to decipher how the brain plans, learns, and executes behaviors requires characterizing neuronal activity at multiple spatial and temporal scales. This includes simultaneously recording neuronal dynamics at the mesoscale level to understand the interactions among brain regions during different behavioral and brain states. Wide-field Ca2+ imaging, which uses single photon excitation and improved genetically encoded Ca2+ indicators, allows for simultaneous recordings of large brain areas and is proving to be a powerful tool to study neuronal activity at the mesoscopic scale in behaving animals. This review details the techniques used for wide-field Ca2+ imaging and the various approaches employed for the analyses of the rich neuronal-behavioral data sets obtained. Also discussed is how wide-field Ca2+ imaging is providing novel insights into both normal and altered neural processing in disease. Finally, we examine the limitations of the approach and new developments in wide-field Ca2+ imaging that are bringing new capabilities to this important technique for investigating large-scale neuronal dynamics.
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Differential Neural Network-Based Nonparametric Identification of Eye Response to Enforced Head Motion. MATHEMATICS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/math10060855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Dynamic motion simulators cannot provide the same stimulation of sensory systems as real motion. Hence, only a subset of human senses should be targeted. For simulators providing vestibular stimulus, an automatic bodily function of vestibular–ocular reflex (VOR) can objectively measure how accurate motion simulation is. This requires a model of ocular response to enforced accelerations, an attempt to create which is shown in this paper. The proposed model corresponds to a single-layer spiking differential neural network with its activation functions are based on the dynamic Izhikevich model of neuron dynamics. An experiment is proposed to collect training data corresponding to controlled accelerated motions that produce VOR, measured using an eye-tracking system. The effectiveness of the proposed identification is demonstrated by comparing its performance with a traditional sigmoidal identifier. The proposed model based on dynamic representations of activation functions produces a more accurate approximation of foveal motion as the estimation of mean square error confirms.
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