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Spike Sorting for Extracellular Recordings. Artur Luczak University of Lethbridge Credits: Many slides taken from: Kenneth D. Harris, Rutgers University. Aims. We would like to … Monitor the activity of large numbers of neurons simultaneously Know which neuron fired when
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Spike Sorting for Extracellular Recordings Artur Luczak University of Lethbridge Credits: Many slides taken from: Kenneth D. Harris, Rutgers University
Aims We would like to … • Monitor the activity of large numbers of neurons simultaneously • Know which neuron fired when • Know which neuron is of which type • Estimate our errors
The Tetrode • Four microwires twisted into a bundle • Different neurons will have different amplitudes on the four wires
Methods: silicon probes Courtesy of S. Sakata
Intra-extra Recording Extracellular waveform is almost minus derivative of intracellular
Bizarre Extracellular Waveshapes Experiment Model
Raw data from 8 shank probe Bartho et al. J Neurophysiol. 2004
Spikes Raw Data
Cell 1 Cell 2 Filtering Data
High Pass Filtering • Local field potential is primarily at low frequencies. • Spikes are at higher frequencies. • So use a high pass filter. 800hz cutoff is good.
Two types of data • Wide-band continuous recordings (LFP) • Filtered, spike-triggered recordings
Data Reduction • We now have a waveform for each spike, for each channel. • Still too much information! • Before assigning individual spikes to cells, we must reduce further.
Principal Component Analysis • Create “feature vector” for each spike. • Typically takes first 3 PCs for each channel. • Do you use canonical principal components, or new ones for each file?
“Feature Space” Luczak et al. 2005
Cluster Cutting • Which spikes belong to which neuron? • Assume a single cluster of spikes in feature space corresponds to a single cell
Cluster Cutting Methods • Purely manual – time consuming, leads to high error rates. • Purely automatic – untrustworthy. • Hybrid – less time consuming, lowest error rates.
Cluster Quality Measures • Would like to automatically detect which cells are well isolated. • Isolation Distance (Mahalanobis distance)
Interneurons vs pyramidal cells Luczak et al. 2007 supl.mat.
Spatial distribution Bartho et al. 2004