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Not just voltage imaging data, SUPPORT can be used in any functional, volumetric, and timelapse data!
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- [11/16/2023] Presented SUPPORT at SfN Neuroscience 2023. Thanks for your intersest, and glad to hear that you are using SUPPORT well!
- [09/18/2023] Now SUPPORT has been published in Nature Methods! 😄
Here, we present SUPPORT (Statistically Unbiased Prediction utilizing sPatiOtempoRal information in imaging daTa), a self-supervised denoising method for voltage imaging data. SUPPORT is based on the insight that a pixel value in voltage imaging data is highly dependent on its spatially neighboring pixels in the same time frame, even when its temporally adjacent frames do not provide useful information for statistical prediction. Such spatiotemporal dependency is captured and utilized to accurately denoise voltage imaging data in which the existence of the action potential in a time frame cannot be inferred by the information in other frames. We show, through simulations and experiments, that SUPPORT enables precise denoising of voltage imaging data while preserving the underlying dynamics in the scene.
We also demonstrate that SUPPORT can be used for denoising time-lapse fluorescence microscopy images of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), in which the imaging speed is not faster than the locomotion of the worm, as well as static volumetric images of Penicillium and mouse embryos. SUPPORT is exceptionally compelling for denoising voltage imaging and time-lapse imaging data and is even effective for denoising calcium imaging data.
For more details, please see the accompanying research publication titled "Statistically Unbiased Prediction Enables Accurate Denoising of Voltage Imaging Data".
🙌 If you encounter any trouble running the code or have any questions, do not hesitate to create an issue.
💞 We are ready to help you and look forward to making this tool widely used! Also, check the FAQ below to see if it answers your question!
test_GUI is designed to run on a standard computer without requiring a large amount of RAM. If a GPU is available, the denoising process can be accelerated.
However, starting with the (Code) or running train_GUI requires a GPU with sufficient VRAM.
This is not requirements, but details of where we have tested on:
- Ubuntu 18.04
- Python 3.9
- Pytorch 1.13.0
- CUDA 11.7
The installation time could vary depending on your network speed, but in general, it takes less than 20 minutes.
git clone https://github.com/NICALab/SUPPORT.git
cd ./SUPPORT
conda env create -f env.yml
(tip) If the conda stuck at Solving environment: |, try removing
channels:
- conda-forge
from env.yml and type conda config --remove channels conda-forge, and do this step.
conda activate SUPPORT
5. Install Pytorch with the version compatible with your OS and platform from https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/
conda install pytorch torchvision torchaudio pytorch-cuda=11.7 -c pytorch -c nvidia
1. Denoise the data with pretrained networks
python -m src.GUI.test_GUI
As the network is trained on different dataset of denoising, for optimal performance, one might have to train the network.
For denoising data with a size of (128, 128, 1200), it took about 30 seconds with one RTX 2080 Ti GPU.
2. Train the network
python -m src.GUI.train_GUI
Choose the folder that contains training data, and then select the blind spot size. After training is done, you can browse the newly trained model and use it in train_GUI.
Representative frame is visualized and updated as training progresses.
Only supports training on GPU, and currently it requires more than 6.5GB of GPU memory.
1. Train SUPPORT
python -m src.train --exp_name mytest --noisy_data ./data/sample_data.tif --n_epochs 11 --checkpoint_interval 10
It will train a network using the sample data (For faster demo, the above code trains the network only for few iterations with small data).
For more options, please refer to the manual through the following code.
python -m src.train --help
2. Inference with SUPPORT
After training the network, the trained model will be saved on results/saved_models/mytest/model_X.pth, where X is the epoch of training.
python -m src.test
It will save the denoised file on results/images/mytest/denoised_X.tif.
Edit src/test.py file to change the path to infer with your data and models.
Dataset for Voltage imaging of paQuasAr6a, Voltron2, zArchon, SomArchon, volumetric structured imaging of mouse embryo and penicillium, and calcium imaging of larval zebrafish can be downloaded from Zenodo.
We are happy to help with any questions or requests. Please contact to following authors to get in touch!
- Minho Eom ([email protected])
- Seungjae Han ([email protected])
Eom, M. et al. Statistically unbiased prediction enables accurate denoising of voltage imaging data. Nature Methods (2023).
@article{eom2023statistically,
title={Statistically unbiased prediction enables accurate denoising of voltage imaging data},
author={Eom, Minho and Han, Seungjae and Park, Pojeong and Kim, Gyuri and Cho, Eun-Seo and Sim, Jueun and Lee, Kang-Han and Kim, Seonghoon and Tian, He and B{\"o}hm, Urs L and others},
journal={Nature Methods},
pages={1--12},
year={2023},
publisher={Nature Publishing Group US New York}
}
- General
Q: Which format your program/code accept?
A: Currently we accept tiff formats.
- Running with code
Q: Do I need to normalize the data for training and/or testing?
A: No you don't have to. Our code will do normalization automatically.
Q: Do I need to pad the data?
A: You don't have to. The output will have the same dimension as the input data in x and y dimensions. However, as we are using past and future N frames to obtain the denoised current frame, the first and final N frames of the final output are not obtained and discarded.
Q: Is it okay to train one model for several tiff stacks, and how can I do it?
A: Rather than training different models for "similar" recordings, we may train one SUPPORT model to process them once. There is a is_folder option to read all tiff stacks in the directory. For example, you may change like this.
python -m src.train --exp_name mytest --noisy_data ./data/sample_data.tif
--> python -m src.train --exp_name mytest --noisy_data ./data/sample_dataset --is_folder
Q: SUPPORT does not denoise my data effectively. Could you offer any suggestions or help?
A: To provide you with the best suggestions tailored to your data, we would appreciate it if you coud provide the following information in your email (It will make us faster to understand the situation and think solutions).
Imaging modality
Name of (calcium/voltage) indicator
Frame rate
GPU&Training time (if you already trained on your own.)
Demo data so that we can take a look (if Possible)
- About GUI
Q: I have a suggestion of UI/function/etc. for train/test GUI. or I found bugs/exceptions/errors. What should I do?
A: Make an issue so that we can handle it. If you are familiar with Pytorch and PyQt, a pull request would be fine!
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