We created DELiVR, a deep-learning pipeline for 3D brain-cell mapping that is trained with virtual reality-generated reference annotations. It can be deployed via the user-friendly interface of the open-source software Fiji, which makes the analysis of large-scale 3D brain images widely accessible to scientists without computational expertise.
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This is a summary of: Kaltenecker, D. et al. Virtual reality-empowered deep-learning analysis of brain cells. Nat. Methods https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-024-02245-2 (2024).
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Simplifying deep learning to enhance accessibility of large-scale 3D brain imaging analysis. Nat Methods (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-024-02246-1
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