Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Whole-brain tissue mapping toolkit using large-scale highly multiplexed immunofluorescence imaging and deep neural networks

  • Dragan Maric,
  • Jahandar Jahanipour,
  • Xiaoyang Rebecca Li,
  • Aditi Singh,
  • Aryan Mobiny,
  • Hien Van Nguyen,
  • Andrea Sedlock,
  • Kedar Grama,
  • Badrinath Roysam

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21735-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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It is challenging to map complex processes in brain tissue. Here the authors report a toolkit enabling large-scale multiplexed IHC and automated cell classification whereby they use a conventional epifluorescence microscope and deep neural networks to phenotype all major cell classes of the brain.