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A structured matrix factorization framework for large scale calcium imaging data analysis
Eftychios A. Pnevmatikakis, Yuanjun Gao, Daniel Soudry, David Pfau, Clay Lacefield, Kira Poskanzer, Randy Bruno, Rafael Yuste, Liam Paninski
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We present a structured matrix factorization approach to analyzing calcium imaging recordings of large neuronal ensembles. Our goal is to simultaneously identify the locations of the neurons, demix spatially overlapping components, and denoise and deconvolve the spiking activity of each neuron from the slow dynamics of the calcium indicator. The matrix factorization approach relies on the observation that the spatiotemporal fluorescence activity can be expressed as a product of two matrices: a spatial matrix that encodes the location of each neuron in the optical field and a temporal matrix that characterizes the calcium concentration of each neuron over time. We present a simple approach for estimating the dynamics of the calcium indicator as well as the observation noise statistics from the observed data. These parameters are then used to set up the matrix factorization problem in a constrained form that requires no further parameter tuning. We discuss initialization and post-processing techniques that enhance the performance of our method, along with efficient and largely parallelizable algorithms. We apply our method to {\it in vivo} large scale multi-neuronal imaging data and also demonstrate how similar methods can be used for the analysis of {\it in vivo} dendritic imaging data.
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