Researchers from Google and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus have created a sophisticated 3D neural representation of a fruit fly’s brain. The 3D map is called connectome and it contains around 25,000 neurons along with about 20 million synapses.
It took the team two years to proofread their findings even with the help of FFN, which signifies the complexity. “We applied numerous machine learning algorithms and over 50 person-years of proofreading effort over 2 calendar years to extract a variety of more compact and useful representations, such as neuron skeletons, synapse locations, and connectivity graphs.”, wrote the researchers in the paper.
