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Ten years of neuroscience at Google yields maps of human brain
May 2, 2024 Viren Jain, Research Scientist and Technical Lead, Connectomics at Google Marking ten years of connectomics research at Google, we are releasing a publication in Science about a reconstruction at the synaptic level of a small piece of the human brain. We discuss the reconstruction process and dataset, and we present several new neuron structures discovered in the data.
We have made connectomes possible through the development of machine learning (ML) algorithms and software tools that process and visualize data at unprecedented scale. Marking this anniversary, today we publish in Science, “ A petavoxel fragment of human cerebral cortex reconstructed at nanoscale resolution ” in collaboration with Jeff Lichtman of Harvard University and others. The ability for other researchers to proofread and refine this human brain connectome is one of many ways that we see the release of this paper and the associated tools as not only the culmination of 10 years of work, but the beginning of something new.
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