An automatic spike sorting algorithm based on adaptive spike detection and a mixture of skew-t distributions

Abstract Developing high-density electrodes for recording large ensembles of neurons provides a unique opportunity for understanding the mechanism of the neuronal circuits. Nevertheless, the change of brain tissue around chronically implanted neural electrodes usually causes spike wave-shape distort...

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Autores principales: Ramin Toosi, Mohammad Ali Akhaee, Mohammad-Reza A. Dehaqani
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Sumario:Abstract Developing high-density electrodes for recording large ensembles of neurons provides a unique opportunity for understanding the mechanism of the neuronal circuits. Nevertheless, the change of brain tissue around chronically implanted neural electrodes usually causes spike wave-shape distortion and raises the crucial issue of spike sorting with an unstable structure. The automatic spike sorting algorithms have been developed to extract spikes from these big extracellular data. However, due to the spike wave-shape instability, there have been a lack of robust spike detection procedures and clustering to overcome the spike loss problem. Here, we develop an automatic spike sorting algorithm based on adaptive spike detection and a mixture of skew-t distributions to address these distortions and instabilities. The adaptive detection procedure applies to the detected spikes, consists of multi-point alignment and statistical filtering for removing mistakenly detected spikes. The detected spikes are clustered based on the mixture of skew-t distributions to deal with non-symmetrical clusters and spike loss problems. The proposed algorithm improves the performance of the spike sorting in both terms of precision and recall, over a broad range of signal-to-noise ratios. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm has been validated on different datasets and demonstrates a general solution to precise spike sorting, in vitro and in vivo.