RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Supervised learning sets benchmark for robust spike detection from calcium imaging signals JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 010777 DO 10.1101/010777 A1 Lucas Theis A1 Philipp Berens A1 Emmanouil Froudarakis A1 Jacob Reimer A1 Miroslav Román-Rosón A1 Tom Baden A1 Thomas Euler A1 Andreas Tolias A1 Matthias Bethge YR 2014 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2014/10/28/010777.abstract AB We present a new data-driven approach to inferring spikes from calcium imaging signals using supervised training of non-linear spiking neuron models. Our technique yields a substantially better performance compared to previous generative modeling approaches, reconstructing spike trains accurately at high temporal resolution even from previously unseen datasets. Future data acquired in new experimental conditions can easily be used to further improve its spike prediction accuracy and generalization performance.