A spike sorting toolbox for up to thousands of electrodes validated with ground truth recordings in vitro and in vivo

In recent years, multielectrode arrays and large silicon probes have been developed to record simultaneously between hundreds and thousands of electrodes packed with a high density. However, they require novel methods to extract the spiking activity of large ensembles of neurons. Here, we developed...

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Main Authors: Pierre Yger, Giulia LB Spampinato, Elric Esposito, Baptiste Lefebvre, Stéphane Deny, Christophe Gardella, Marcel Stimberg, Florian Jetter, Guenther Zeck, Serge Picaud, Jens Duebel, Olivier Marre
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author Pierre Yger
Giulia LB Spampinato
Elric Esposito
Baptiste Lefebvre
Stéphane Deny
Christophe Gardella
Marcel Stimberg
Florian Jetter
Guenther Zeck
Serge Picaud
Jens Duebel
Olivier Marre
author_facet Pierre Yger
Giulia LB Spampinato
Elric Esposito
Baptiste Lefebvre
Stéphane Deny
Christophe Gardella
Marcel Stimberg
Florian Jetter
Guenther Zeck
Serge Picaud
Jens Duebel
Olivier Marre
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description In recent years, multielectrode arrays and large silicon probes have been developed to record simultaneously between hundreds and thousands of electrodes packed with a high density. However, they require novel methods to extract the spiking activity of large ensembles of neurons. Here, we developed a new toolbox to sort spikes from these large-scale extracellular data. To validate our method, we performed simultaneous extracellular and loose patch recordings in rodents to obtain ‘ground truth’ data, where the solution to this sorting problem is known for one cell. The performance of our algorithm was always close to the best expected performance, over a broad range of signal-to-noise ratios, in vitro and in vivo. The algorithm is entirely parallelized and has been successfully tested on recordings with up to 4225 electrodes. Our toolbox thus offers a generic solution to sort accurately spikes for up to thousands of electrodes.
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spelling doaj.art-075978833acf4f7488d2c63e3e551e5c2022-12-22T02:01:52ZengeLife Sciences Publications LtdeLife2050-084X2018-03-01710.7554/eLife.34518A spike sorting toolbox for up to thousands of electrodes validated with ground truth recordings in vitro and in vivoPierre Yger0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1376-5240Giulia LB Spampinato1Elric Esposito2Baptiste Lefebvre3Stéphane Deny4Christophe Gardella5https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3204-9012Marcel Stimberg6https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2648-4790Florian Jetter7Guenther Zeck8Serge Picaud9Jens Duebel10Olivier Marre11https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0090-6190Institut de la Vision, INSERM UMRS 968, UPMC UM 80, Paris, FranceInstitut de la Vision, INSERM UMRS 968, UPMC UM 80, Paris, FranceInstitut de la Vision, INSERM UMRS 968, UPMC UM 80, Paris, FranceInstitut de la Vision, INSERM UMRS 968, UPMC UM 80, Paris, FranceInstitut de la Vision, INSERM UMRS 968, UPMC UM 80, Paris, FranceInstitut de la Vision, INSERM UMRS 968, UPMC UM 80, Paris, France; Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, CNRS, ENS, UPMC, 75005, Paris, FranceInstitut de la Vision, INSERM UMRS 968, UPMC UM 80, Paris, FranceNMI, Neurophysics Group, Reutlingen, GermanyNMI, Neurophysics Group, Reutlingen, GermanyInstitut de la Vision, INSERM UMRS 968, UPMC UM 80, Paris, FranceInstitut de la Vision, INSERM UMRS 968, UPMC UM 80, Paris, FranceInstitut de la Vision, INSERM UMRS 968, UPMC UM 80, Paris, FranceIn recent years, multielectrode arrays and large silicon probes have been developed to record simultaneously between hundreds and thousands of electrodes packed with a high density. However, they require novel methods to extract the spiking activity of large ensembles of neurons. Here, we developed a new toolbox to sort spikes from these large-scale extracellular data. To validate our method, we performed simultaneous extracellular and loose patch recordings in rodents to obtain ‘ground truth’ data, where the solution to this sorting problem is known for one cell. The performance of our algorithm was always close to the best expected performance, over a broad range of signal-to-noise ratios, in vitro and in vivo. The algorithm is entirely parallelized and has been successfully tested on recordings with up to 4225 electrodes. Our toolbox thus offers a generic solution to sort accurately spikes for up to thousands of electrodes.https://elifesciences.org/articles/34518electrophysiologysilicon probepopulation recordingspike sortingneural ensemble
spellingShingle Pierre Yger
Giulia LB Spampinato
Elric Esposito
Baptiste Lefebvre
Stéphane Deny
Christophe Gardella
Marcel Stimberg
Florian Jetter
Guenther Zeck
Serge Picaud
Jens Duebel
Olivier Marre
A spike sorting toolbox for up to thousands of electrodes validated with ground truth recordings in vitro and in vivo
eLife
electrophysiology
silicon probe
population recording
spike sorting
neural ensemble
title A spike sorting toolbox for up to thousands of electrodes validated with ground truth recordings in vitro and in vivo
title_full A spike sorting toolbox for up to thousands of electrodes validated with ground truth recordings in vitro and in vivo
title_fullStr A spike sorting toolbox for up to thousands of electrodes validated with ground truth recordings in vitro and in vivo
title_full_unstemmed A spike sorting toolbox for up to thousands of electrodes validated with ground truth recordings in vitro and in vivo
title_short A spike sorting toolbox for up to thousands of electrodes validated with ground truth recordings in vitro and in vivo
title_sort spike sorting toolbox for up to thousands of electrodes validated with ground truth recordings in vitro and in vivo
topic electrophysiology
silicon probe
population recording
spike sorting
neural ensemble
url https://elifesciences.org/articles/34518
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