Synapse Detection

A synapse is an essential structure that allows electric or chemical signals to be passed between neurons. Identification of synapses is important for reconstructing the wiring diagram of the brain. Signal flows in one direction at a synapse, so each synapse usually consists of a pre-synaptic and a post-synaptic region.

This section covers two benchmarks:

• CREMI — synaptic cleft detection on the CREMI Challenge dataset (adult Drosophila melanogaster brain tissue, 2016).

• EM-R50 — synaptic polarity detection on the dataset released by Lin et al. in 2020 (Layer II/III primary visual cortex of an adult rat). This predicts pre-synaptic and post-synaptic masks separately.

• CREMI (Synaptic Cleft Detection)
• EM-R50 (Synaptic Polarity Detection)