Model-Free Reconstruction of Excitatory Neuronal Connectivity from Calcium Imaging Signals

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Stetter, Olav ^a,b,c   Battaglia, Demian ^a,c   Soriano, Jordi ^d   Geisel, Theo ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENTROPY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; LIGHT SCATTERING; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS; SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHMIC APPROACH; CALCIUM IMAGING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL ASSAYS; MODEL FREE; NEURAL NETWORK CONNECTIVITIES; NEURONAL CONNECTIVITY; PERFORMANCE; SIMPLE SYSTEM; SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT; TRANSFER ENTROPY;

CALCIUM;

CALCIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LIGHT SCATTERING; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSFER ENTROPY;

EID: 84866085888     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002653     Document Type: Article

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