TY - JOUR
T1 - Virtual finger boosts three-dimensional imaging and microsurgery as well as terabyte volume image visualization and analysis
AU - Peng, Hanchuan
AU - Tang, Jianyong
AU - Xiao, Hang
AU - Bria, Alessandro
AU - Zhou, Jianlong
AU - Butler, Victoria
AU - Zhou, Zhi
AU - Gonzalez-Bellido, Paloma T.
AU - Oh, Seung W.
AU - Chen, Jichao
AU - Mitra, Ananya
AU - Tsien, Richard W.
AU - Zeng, Hongkui
AU - Ascoli, Giorgio A.
AU - Iannello, Giulio
AU - Hawrylycz, Michael
AU - Myers, Eugene
AU - Long, Fuhui
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Z. Ruan and Y. Zhuang for tracing neuritis; T. Lee, G. Rubin and J. Simpson for providing fruit fly neuron images; J. Simpson and P. Chung for providing fruit fly brain slides; R. Kerr for discussion of the imaging and sample preparation methods; C. Doe for providing Drosophila last embryo images; X. Liu and S. Kim for providing some of the C. elegans samples; P. Kochunov for providing human angiographies from magnetic resonance imaging; and S. Ball for proofreading of the manuscript. This work was mainly supported by Howard Hughes Medical Institute. H.P. is currently supported by the Allen Institute for Brain Science. R.W.T. and A.M. were supported by a grant MH071739 (MERIT).
PY - 2014/7/11
Y1 - 2014/7/11
N2 - Three-dimensional (3D) bioimaging, visualization and data analysis are in strong need of powerful 3D exploration techniques. We develop virtual finger (VF) to generate 3D curves, points and regions-of-interest in the 3D space of a volumetric image with a single finger operation, such as a computer mouse stroke, or click or zoom from the 2D-projection plane of an image as visualized with a computer. VF provides efficient methods for acquisition, visualization and analysis of 3D images for roundworm, fruitfly, dragonfly, mouse, rat and human. Specifically, VF enables instant 3D optical zoom-in imaging, 3D free-form optical microsurgery, and 3D visualization and annotation of terabytes of whole-brain image volumes. VF also leads to orders of magnitude better efficiency of automated 3D reconstruction of neurons and similar biostructures over our previous systems. We use VF to generate from images of 1,107 Drosophila GAL4 lines a projectome of a Drosophila brain.
AB - Three-dimensional (3D) bioimaging, visualization and data analysis are in strong need of powerful 3D exploration techniques. We develop virtual finger (VF) to generate 3D curves, points and regions-of-interest in the 3D space of a volumetric image with a single finger operation, such as a computer mouse stroke, or click or zoom from the 2D-projection plane of an image as visualized with a computer. VF provides efficient methods for acquisition, visualization and analysis of 3D images for roundworm, fruitfly, dragonfly, mouse, rat and human. Specifically, VF enables instant 3D optical zoom-in imaging, 3D free-form optical microsurgery, and 3D visualization and annotation of terabytes of whole-brain image volumes. VF also leads to orders of magnitude better efficiency of automated 3D reconstruction of neurons and similar biostructures over our previous systems. We use VF to generate from images of 1,107 Drosophila GAL4 lines a projectome of a Drosophila brain.
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U2 - 10.1038/ncomms5342
DO - 10.1038/ncomms5342
M3 - Article
C2 - 25014658
AN - SCOPUS:84904201456
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 5
JO - Nature communications
JF - Nature communications
M1 - 4342
ER -