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Pipeline for calcium imaging

Project description

suite2p sweet two pea

Pipeline for processing two-photon calcium imaging data.
Copyright (C) 2018 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus

suite2p includes the following modules:

  • Registration
  • Cell detection
  • Spike detection
  • Visualization GUI

This code was written by Carsen Stringer and Marius Pachitariu.
For support, please open an issue. The reference paper is here.
The deconvolution algorithm is based on this paper, with settings based on this paper.

More in depth documentation is available on the wiki.

Installation

From a command line terminal, type:

pip install suite2p

If this fails, you might not have Python 3 (or pip, or a recent enough version of pip). You'll need to install a distribution of Python like Anaconda. Choose Python 3.x for your operating system. You might need to use an anaconda prompt if you did not add anaconda to the path. Try "pip install suite2p" again. If it still fails, there might be some interaction between pre-installed dependencies and the ones Suite2p needs. First thing to try is

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

And try "pip install suite2p" again. If it still fails, install Anaconda, and use the Anaconda command prompt to have a clean environment. Alternatively, if you already have Anaconda, create a clean conda environment just for suite2p with

conda create --name suite2p
(source) activate suite2p 
pip install suite2p

Omit the "source" on Windows. If you install in this way, you will need to "(source) activate suite2p" every time you use suite2p.

To upgrade suite2p (package here), run:

pip install suite2p --upgrade

If when running python -m suite2p, you receive the error: No module named PyQt5.sip, then try uninstalling and reinstalling pyqt5 (and/or creating a specific environment just for suite2p)

pip uninstall pyqt5 pyqt5-tools
pip install pyqt5 pyqt5-tools pyqt5.sip

If when running python -m suite2p, you receive an error associated with matplotlib, try upgrading it:

pip install matplotlib --upgrade

If you are on Yosemite Mac OS, PyQt doesn't work, and you won't be able to install suite2p. More recent versions of Mac OS are fine.

The software has been heavily tested on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04, and less well tested on Mac OS. Please post an issue if you have installation problems.

Examples

An example dataset is provided here. It's a single-plane, single-channel recording.

Getting started

The quickest way to start is to open the GUI from a command line terminal. You might need to open an anaconda prompt if you did not add anaconda to the path.

python -m suite2p

Then:

  1. File -> Run suite2p (or ctrl+r)
  2. Setup a configuration
    • -> Add directory which contains tiffs to data_path (can be multiple folders, but add them one at a time)
    • -> OR choose an h5 file which has a key with the data, data shape should be time x pixels x pixels (you can type in the key name for the data after you choose the file)
    • -> Add save_path ((otherwise the data directory is used as save path))
    • -> Add fast_disk (this is where the binary file of registered data will be created, choose an SSD for this path) ((otherwise the save path is used as the fast disk path))
    • Set some parameters (see full list below). At the minimum:
       nplanes, nchannels, diameter, tau, fs
      
  3. Press run and wait. Messages should start appearing in the embedded command line.
  4. When the run is finished, the results will open in the GUI window and there you can visualize and refine the results (see below).

Using the GUI

suite2p output goes to a folder called "suite2p" inside your save_path, which by default is the same as the data_path. If you ran suite2p in the GUI, it loads the results automatically. Otherwise, load the results with File -> Load results.

The GUI serves two main functions:

  1. Checking the quality of the data and results.
    • there are currently several views such as the enhanced mean image, the ROI masks, the correlation map, the correlation among cells, and the ROI+neuropil traces
    • by selecting multiple cells (with "Draw selection" or ctrl+left-click), you can view the activity of multiple ROIs simultaneously in the lower plot
    • there are also population-level visualizations, such as rastermap
  2. Classify ROIs into cell / not cell (left and right views respectively)
    • the default classifier included should work well in a variety of scenarios.
    • a user-classifier can be learnt from manual curation, thus adapting to the statistics of your own data.
    • the GUI automatically saves which ROIs are good in "iscell.npy". The second column contains the probability that the ROI is a cell based on the currently loaded classifier.

Main GUI controls (works in all views):

  1. Pan = Left-Click + drag
  2. Zoom = (Scroll wheel) OR (Right-Click + drag)
  3. Full view = Double left-click OR escape key
  4. Swap cell = Right-click on the cell
  5. Select multiple cells = (Ctrl + left-click) AND/OR ("Draw selection" button)

You can add your manual curation to a pre-built classifier by clicking "Add current data to classifier". Or you can make a brand-new classifier from a list of "iscell.npy" files that you've manually curated. The default classifier in the GUI is initialized as the suite2p classifier, but you can overwrite it by adding to it, or loading a different classifier and saving it as the default. The default classifier is used in the pipeline to produce the initial "iscell.npy" file

Other ways to call Suite2p

  1. From the command line:
python -m suite2p --ops <path to ops.npy> --db <path to db.npy>
  1. From Python/Jupyter
from suite2p.run_s2p import run_s2p
ops1 = run_s2p(ops, db)

See our example jupyter notebook here. It also explains how to batch-run suite2p.

Outputs

F.npy: array of fluorescence traces (ROIs by timepoints)  
Fneu.npy: array of neuropil fluorescence traces (ROIs by timepoints)  
spks.npy: array of deconvolved traces (ROIs by timepoints)  
stat.npy: array of statistics computed for each cell (ROIs by 1)  
ops.npy: options and intermediate outputs
iscell.npy: specifies whether an ROI is a cell, first column is 0/1, and second column is probability that the ROI is a cell based on the default classifier

Option defaults

 ops = {
        # file paths
	'look_one_level_down': False, # whether to look in all subfolders when searching for tiffs
	'fast_disk': [], # used to store temporary binary file, defaults to save_path0 (set to a string NOT a list)
        'delete_bin': False, # whether to delete binary file after processing
        'h5py_key': 'data', # key in h5 where data array is stored (data should be time x pixels x pixels)
        # main settings
        'nplanes' : 1, # each tiff has these many planes in sequence
        'nchannels' : 1, # each tiff has these many channels per plane
        'functional_chan' : 1, # this channel is used to extract functional ROIs (1-based)
        'diameter':12, # this is the main parameter for cell detection, 2-dimensional if Y and X are different (e.g. [6 12])
        'tau':  1., # this is the main parameter for deconvolution
        'fs': 10.,  # sampling rate (total across planes)
        # output settings
        'save_mat': False, # whether to save output as matlab files
        'combined': True, # combine multiple planes into a single result /single canvas for GUI
        # parallel settings
        'num_workers': 0, # 0 to select num_cores, -1 to disable parallelism, N to enforce value
        'num_workers_roi': -1, # 0 to select number of planes, -1 to disable parallelism, N to enforce value
        # registration settings
        'do_registration': True, # whether to register data
        'nimg_init': 200, # subsampled frames for finding reference image
        'batch_size': 200, # number of frames per batch
        'maxregshift': 0.1, # max allowed registration shift, as a fraction of frame max(width and height)
        'align_by_chan' : 1, # when multi-channel, you can align by non-functional channel (1-based)
        'reg_tif': False, # whether to save registered tiffs
        'subpixel' : 10, # precision of subpixel registration (1/subpixel steps)
        # cell detection settings
        'connected': True, # whether or not to keep ROIs fully connected (set to 0 for dendrites)
        'navg_frames_svd': 5000, # max number of binned frames for the SVD
        'nsvd_for_roi': 1000, # max number of SVD components to keep for ROI detection
        'max_iterations': 20, # maximum number of iterations to do cell detection
        'ratio_neuropil': 6., # ratio between neuropil basis size and cell radius
        'ratio_neuropil_to_cell': 3, # minimum ratio between neuropil radius and cell radius
        'tile_factor': 1., # use finer (>1) or coarser (<1) tiles for neuropil estimation during cell detection
        'threshold_scaling': 1., # adjust the automatically determined threshold by this scalar multiplier
        'max_overlap': 0.75, # cells with more overlap than this get removed during triage, before refinement
        'inner_neuropil_radius': 2, # number of pixels to keep between ROI and neuropil donut
        'outer_neuropil_radius': np.inf, # maximum neuropil radius
        'min_neuropil_pixels': 350, # minimum number of pixels in the neuropil
        # deconvolution settings
        'baseline': 'maximin', # baselining mode
        'win_baseline': 60., # window for maximin
        'sig_baseline': 10., # smoothing constant for gaussian filter
        'prctile_baseline': 8.,# optional (whether to use a percentile baseline)
        'neucoeff': .7,  # neuropil coefficient
        'allow_overlap': False,
        'xrange': np.array([0, 0]),
        'yrange': np.array([0, 0]),
      }

Dependencies

suite2p relies on the following packages (which are automatically installed with pip if missing):

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