Graph Representation Learning for Large-Scale Neuronal Morphological Analysis

Jie Zhao

doi:10.1109/TNNLS.2022.3204686

Graph Representation Learning for Large-Scale Neuronal Morphological Analysis

2024-04-01

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DOI：10.1109/TNNLS.2022.3204686

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The analysis of neuronal morphological data is essential to investigate the neuronal properties and brain mechanisms. The complex morphologies, absence of annotations, and sheer volume of these data pose significant challenges in neuronal morphological analysis, such as identifying neuron types and large-scale neuron retrieval, all of which require accurate measuring and efficient matching algorithms. Recently, many studies have been conducted to describe neuronal morphologies quantitatively using predefined measurements. However, hand-crafted features are usually inadequate for distinguishing fine-grained differences among massive neurons. In this article, we propose a novel morphology-aware contrastive graph neural network (MACGNN) for unsupervised neuronal morphological representation learning. To improve the retrieval efficiency in large-scale neuronal morphological datasets, we further propose Hash-MACGNN by introducing an improved deep hash algorithm to train the network end-to-end to learn binary hash representations of neurons. We conduct extensive experiments on the largest dataset, NeuroMorpho, which contains more than 100 000 neurons. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of our MACGNN and Hash-MACGNN for large-scale neuronal morphological analysis.

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Contrastive learning

deep hashing

graph neural networks (GNNs)

large-scale retrieval

neuronal morphologies

Graph Representation Learning for Large-Scale Neuronal Morphological Analysis

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