期刊
ANNALS OF APPLIED STATISTICS
卷 12, 期 4, 页码 2457-2482出版社
INST MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS
DOI: 10.1214/18-AOAS1162
关键词
Neuroscience; calcium imaging; changepoint detection; dynamic programming
资金
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- NIH [DP5OD009145]
- NSF CAREER Award [DMS-1252624]
In recent years new technologies in neuroscience have made it possible to measure the activities of large numbers of neurons simultaneously in behaving animals. For each neuron afluorescence trace is measured; this can be seen as a first-order approximation of the neuron's activity over time. Determining the exact time at which a neuron spikes on the basis of its fluorescence trace is an important open problem in the field of computational neuroscience. Recently, a convex optimization problem involving an l(1) penalty was proposed for this task. In this paper we slightly modify that recent proposal by replacing the l(1) penalty with an l(0) penalty. In stark contrast to the conventional wisdom that optimization problems are computationally intractable, we show that the resulting l(0) optimization problem can be efficiently solved for the global optimum using an extremely simple and efficient dynamic programming algorithm. Our R-language implementation of the proposed algorithm runs in a few minutes on fluorescence traces of 100,000 timesteps. Furthermore, our proposal leads to substantial improvements over the previous l(1) proposal, in simulations as well as on two calcium imaging datasets.
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