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    NeuroBlocks – Visual Tracking of Segmentation and Proofreading for Large Connectomics Projects

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    Authors
    Al-Awami, Ali K. cc
    Beyer, Johanna
    Haehn, Daniel
    Kasthuri, Narayanan
    Lichtman, Jeff
    Pfister, Hanspeter
    Hadwiger, Markus cc
    KAUST Department
    Computer Science Program
    Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
    Date
    2015-08-13
    Online Publication Date
    2015-08-13
    Print Publication Date
    2016-01-31
    Permanent link to this record
    http://hdl.handle.net/10754/575258
    
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    Abstract
    In the field of connectomics, neuroscientists acquire electron microscopy volumes at nanometer resolution in order to reconstruct a detailed wiring diagram of the neurons in the brain. The resulting image volumes, which often are hundreds of terabytes in size, need to be segmented to identify cell boundaries, synapses, and important cell organelles. However, the segmentation process of a single volume is very complex, time-intensive, and usually performed using a diverse set of tools and many users. To tackle the associated challenges, this paper presents NeuroBlocks, which is a novel visualization system for tracking the state, progress, and evolution of very large volumetric segmentation data in neuroscience. NeuroBlocks is a multi-user web-based application that seamlessly integrates the diverse set of tools that neuroscientists currently use for manual and semi-automatic segmentation, proofreading, visualization, and analysis. NeuroBlocks is the first system that integrates this heterogeneous tool set, providing crucial support for the management, provenance, accountability, and auditing of large-scale segmentations. We describe the design of NeuroBlocks, starting with an analysis of the domain-specific tasks, their inherent challenges, and our subsequent task abstraction and visual representation. We demonstrate the utility of our design based on two case studies that focus on different user roles and their respective requirements for performing and tracking the progress of segmentation and proofreading in a large real-world connectomics project.
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    NeuroBlocks – Visual Tracking of Segmentation and Proofreading for Large Connectomics Projects 2015:1 IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
    Publisher
    Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
    Journal
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
    DOI
    10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467441
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    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=7192653
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467441
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    Articles; Computer Science Program; Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division

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