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Autori principali: Kumar, Shashwat, Padova, Dominic M., Narang, Binish, Coste, Gabrielle I., Graves, Austin R., Huganir, Richard L., Charles, Adam S., Miller, Michael I., Srivastava, Anuj
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13455
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author Kumar, Shashwat
Padova, Dominic M.
Narang, Binish
Coste, Gabrielle I.
Graves, Austin R.
Huganir, Richard L.
Charles, Adam S.
Miller, Michael I.
Srivastava, Anuj
author_facet Kumar, Shashwat
Padova, Dominic M.
Narang, Binish
Coste, Gabrielle I.
Graves, Austin R.
Huganir, Richard L.
Charles, Adam S.
Miller, Michael I.
Srivastava, Anuj
contents Synapses are densely packed submicron structures that dynamically reorganize during learning and memory formation. Longitudinal \textit{in vivo} imaging of fluorescently tagged synaptic receptors offers a promising opportunity to study large-scale synaptic dynamics and how these processes are disrupted in neurological disease. However, in vivo imaging with 2-photon microscopy uses low laser power and therefore suffers from low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and high shot noise, nonlinear tissue motion between days, nonstationary fluctuations in synaptic fluorescence, and significant blur induced by the microscope point spread function (PSF). Together, these factors make it challenging to detect and track synapses, especially in regions with high synaptic density. This paper presents a novel template-based framework for modeling synapses as varying luminance point sources that move under a nonlinear tissue deformation. Taking a unified Bayesian approach, we apply this model to microscopy data by deriving a posterior that incorporates a diffeomorphic mapping for domain warping, a Gaussian point spread function for the imaging process, and a Poisson observation model for raw photon counts. The Bayesian solution simultaneously: (1) Constructs a probabilistic template of synapse locations, (2) denoises and deconvolves the image data, (3) infers fluorescence intensities, (4) performs diffeomorphic image registration to correct for tissue motion, and (5) provides confidence regions for these parameter estimates. We demonstrate the framework on both a 2D+t simulated dataset and a 3D+t longitudinal \textit{in vivo} microscopy dataset of fluorescent synapses imaged in a mouse over two weeks.
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spellingShingle Bayesian In Vivo Tracking of Synapses using Joint Poisson Deconvolution and Diffeomorphic Registration
Kumar, Shashwat
Padova, Dominic M.
Narang, Binish
Coste, Gabrielle I.
Graves, Austin R.
Huganir, Richard L.
Charles, Adam S.
Miller, Michael I.
Srivastava, Anuj
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Synapses are densely packed submicron structures that dynamically reorganize during learning and memory formation. Longitudinal \textit{in vivo} imaging of fluorescently tagged synaptic receptors offers a promising opportunity to study large-scale synaptic dynamics and how these processes are disrupted in neurological disease. However, in vivo imaging with 2-photon microscopy uses low laser power and therefore suffers from low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and high shot noise, nonlinear tissue motion between days, nonstationary fluctuations in synaptic fluorescence, and significant blur induced by the microscope point spread function (PSF). Together, these factors make it challenging to detect and track synapses, especially in regions with high synaptic density. This paper presents a novel template-based framework for modeling synapses as varying luminance point sources that move under a nonlinear tissue deformation. Taking a unified Bayesian approach, we apply this model to microscopy data by deriving a posterior that incorporates a diffeomorphic mapping for domain warping, a Gaussian point spread function for the imaging process, and a Poisson observation model for raw photon counts. The Bayesian solution simultaneously: (1) Constructs a probabilistic template of synapse locations, (2) denoises and deconvolves the image data, (3) infers fluorescence intensities, (4) performs diffeomorphic image registration to correct for tissue motion, and (5) provides confidence regions for these parameter estimates. We demonstrate the framework on both a 2D+t simulated dataset and a 3D+t longitudinal \textit{in vivo} microscopy dataset of fluorescent synapses imaged in a mouse over two weeks.
title Bayesian In Vivo Tracking of Synapses using Joint Poisson Deconvolution and Diffeomorphic Registration
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13455