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Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail (www.nature.com)

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Google scientists have modelled a fragment of the human brain at nanoscale resolution, revealing cells with previously undiscovered features.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Jain’s team then built artificial-intelligence models that were able to stitch the microscope images together to reconstruct the whole sample in 3D.

The map is so large that most of it has yet to be manually checked, and it could still contain errors created by the process of stitching so many images together. “Hundreds of cells have been ‘proofread’, but that’s obviously a few per cent of the 50,000 cells in there,” says Jain.

Ah so it's not a real model, just an AI approximation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

It still seems like a real model to me. Just because they used a fancy computer to turn a sequence of 2d slices into a 3d representation doesn't mean it's not real.