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Attendees of this talk will learn aobut computational imaging systems and associated pipelines, as well as open-source software solutions supporting miniscope use.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:17:56

This talk covers the present state and future directions of calcium imaging data analysis, particularly in the context of one-photon vs two-photon approaches. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:21:06

In this talk, results from rodent experimentation using in vivo imaging are presented, demonstrating how the monitoring of neural ensembles may reveal patterns of learning during spatial tasks.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:19:43

How to start processing the raw imaging data generated with a Miniscope, including developing a usable pipeline and demoing the Minion pipeline.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:57:26

The direction of miniature microscopes, including both MetaCell and other groups.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:49:16

Overview of the content for Day 2 of this course.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:11:01
Speaker: : Tristan Shuman

Summary and closing remarks for this three-day course.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:04:56
Speaker: : Stephen Larson

This hands-on tutorial explains how to run your own Minion session in the MetaCell cloud using jupityr notebooks.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 01:28:03

In this hands-on analysis tutorial, users will mimic a kernel crash and learn the steps to restore inputs in such a case.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:20:34
Speaker: : Phil Dong

This lesson introduces various methods in MATLAB useful for dealing with data generated by calcium imaging. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 5:02
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

This lesson will go through how to extract cells from video that has been cleaned of background noise and motion.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 01:49:40
Speaker: : Phil Dong

This tutorial demonstrates how to use MATLAB to generate and visualize animations of calcium fluctuations over time. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 15:01
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

This final hands-on analysis tutorial walks users through the last visualization steps in the cellular data.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:27:23
Speaker: : Phil Dong

This tutorial instructs users how to use MATLAB to programmatically convert data from cells to a matrix.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 5:15
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

In this tutorial, users will learn how to identify and remove background noise, or "blur", an important step in isolating cell bodies from image data. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 17:08
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

This lesson teaches users how MATLAB can be used to apply image processing techniques to identify cell bodies based on contiguity.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 11:23
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

This tutorial demonstrates how to extract the time course of calcium activity from each clusters of neuron somata, and store the data in a MATLAB matrix.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 22:41
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

This lesson demonstrates how to use MATLAB to implement a multivariate dimension reduction method, PCA, on time series data.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 17:19
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

This lesson explores how researchers try to understand neural networks, particularly in the case of observing neural activity. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 8:20
Speaker: : Marcus Ghosh

This introductory lesson welcomes users to the virtual learning series, explaining some of the background behind open-source miniscopes, as well as outlining the rest of the lessons in this course. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 16:23