SynQuant: An Automatic Tool to Quantify Synapses from Microscopy Images.

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2019
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Abstract
Synapses are essential to neural signal transmission. Therefore, quantification of synapses and related neurites from images is vital to gain insights into the underlying pathways of brain functionality and diseases. Despite the wide availability of synaptic punctum imaging data, several issues are impeding satisfactory quantification of these structures by current tools. First, the antibodies used for labeling synapses are not perfectly specific to synapses. These antibodies may exist in neurites or other cell compartments. Second, the brightness of different neurites and synaptic puncta is heterogeneous due to the variation of antibody concentration and synapse-intrinsic differences. Third, images often have low signal to noise ratio due to constraints of experiment facilities and availability of sensitive antibodies. These issues make the detection of synapses challenging and necessitates developing a new tool to easily and accurately quantify synapses.We present an automatic probability-principled synapse detection algorithm and integrate it into our synapse quantification tool SynQuant. Derived from the theory of order statistics, our method controls the false discovery rate and improves the power of detecting synapses. SynQuant is unsupervised, works for both 2D and 3D data, and can handle multiple staining channels. Through extensive experiments on one synthetic and three real data sets with ground truth annotation or manually labeling, SynQuant was demonstrated to outperform peer specialized unsupervised synapse detection tools as well as generic spot detection methods.Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. Java source code, Fiji plug-in, and test data are available at https://github.com/yu-lab-vt/SynQuant.
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Authors Wang, Yizhi;Wang, Congchao;Ranefall, Petter;Broussard, Gerard Joey;Wang, Yinxue;Shi, Guilai;Lyu, Boyu;Wu, Chiung-Ting;Wang, Yue;Tian, Lin;Yu, Guoqiang;
Journal Bioinformatics
Year 2019
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