AI-generated synthetic neurons speed up brain mapping

Google Research · 3 months ago

Google Research developed MoGen, an AI model that generates synthetic neuronal shapes to improve the accuracy of brain mapping reconstruction algorithms. Training the PATHFINDER neuron reconstruction model with 10% synthetic data from MoGen reduced reconstruction errors by 4.4%, which translates to 157 person-years of manual proofreading saved for a complete mouse brain. The approach enables faster and more scalable brain mapping by reducing the manual verification work required from human experts.