Using ConvNets, MALIS and crowd-sourcing to map the retinal connectome

Neural circuits in the brain are formed from neurons connecting to one another in highly structured ways. However, technological limitations have prevented us from knowing much about the nature of neural connectivity and how it relates to neural computation. We have developed new technology based on 3d electron microscopy, computational image analysis and crowd-sourcing to reconstruct complete wiring diagrams for all the neurons in a piece of brain tissue. We have densely mapped the connectivity of 950 ne