Exploring the connectome: Petascale volume visualization of microscopy data streams

Johanna Beyer; Markus Hadwiger; Ali K. Al-Awami; Wonki Jeong; Narayanan Kasthuri; Jeff W M D Lichtman; Hanspeter Pfister

doi:10.1109/MCG.2013.55

Exploring the connectome: Petascale volume visualization of microscopy data streams

Johanna Beyer, Markus Hadwiger, Ali K. Al-Awami, Wonki Jeong, Narayanan Kasthuri, Jeff W M D Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister

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Recent advances in high-resolution microscopy let neuroscientists acquire neural-tissue volume data of extremely large sizes. However, the tremendous resolution and the high complexity of neural structures present big challenges to storage, processing, and visualization at interactive rates. A proposed system provides interactive exploration of petascale (petavoxel) volumes resulting from high-throughput electron microscopy data streams. The system can concurrently handle multiple volumes and can support the simultaneous visualization of high-resolution voxel segmentation data. Its visualization-driven design restricts most computations to a small subset of the data. It employs a multiresolution virtual-memory architecture for better scalability than previous approaches and for handling incomplete data. Researchers have employed it for a 1-teravoxel mouse cortex volume, of which several hundred axons and dendrites as well as synapses have been segmented and labeled. © 1981-2012 IEEE.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	50-61
Number of pages	12
Journal	IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Volume	33
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2013.55
State	Published - Jul 17 2013

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