Diadem challenge

Comprises six data set collections from different animal species, brain regions, neuron types, and visualization methods.

  1. Cerebellar climbing fiber
  2. Olfactory projection fiber
  3. Neocortical Layer 1 Axon
  4. Neuromuscular Projection Fiber
  5. Hippocampal CA3 Interneuron
  6. Visual Cortical Layer 6

Brown, K. M., Barrionuevo, G., Canty, A. J., De Paola, V., Hirsch, J. A., Jefferis, G. S. X. E., Lu, J., Snippe, M., Sugihara, I., & Ascoli, G. A. (2011). The DIADEM data sets: representative light microscopy images of neuronal morphology to advance automation of digital reconstructions. Neuroinformatics, 9(2-3), 143-157.

Image
has Ground truth

Manually traced digital neural reconstructions,

has imaging details

Imaging varies by neuron type and species, includes:

  1. Transmitted light brightfield
  2. Confocal
  3. in-vivo 2-photon laser scanning
has biological terms