EvOL-Neuron: Neuronal morphology generation

  • Authors:
  • Ben Torben-Nielsen;Karl Tuyls;Eric Postma

  • Affiliations:
  • MICC, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200MD Maastricht, The Netherlands;MICC, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200MD Maastricht, The Netherlands;MICC, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200MD Maastricht, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Neurocomputing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Virtual neurons are essential in computational neuroscience to study the relation between neuronal form and function. One way of obtaining virtual neurons is by algorithmic generation from scratch. However, a main disadvantage of current available generation methods is that they impose a priori limitations on the outcomes of the algorithms. We present a new tool, EvOL-Neuron, that overcomes this problem by putting a posteriori constraints on generated virtual neurons. We present a proof of principle and show that our method is particularly suited to investigate the neuronal form-function relation.