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The Cell Body (which is sometimes referred to as a soma, perikaryon, or cyton) is the large bulbous end of a neuron, which contains the cell nucleus. For the purpose of [[Retinal Connectomics]], the cell body is generally uniformative. As well as having the nucleus, the dendrites and axon also branch off of the cell body.
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The Cell Body (which is sometimes referred to as a soma, perikaryon, or cyton) is the large bulbous start of a neuron, which contains the cell nucleus. For the purpose of [[Retinal Connectomics]], the cell body is generally uninformative. As well as having the nucleus, the dendrites and (not always) an axon also branch off of the cell body.
  
In EyeWire the cell bodies are often [[frozen]] because they take a lot of time to trace, are uniformative, and the [[Artificial Intelligence]] has trouble with them, since it's designed for dendrites.
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In EyeWire the cell bodies are often [[frozen]] because they take a lot of time to trace, are uninformative, and the AI ([[Artificial Intelligence]]) has trouble with them, since it's designed for dendrites.
  
 
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Revision as of 21:28, 19 June 2014

The Cell Body (which is sometimes referred to as a soma, perikaryon, or cyton) is the large bulbous start of a neuron, which contains the cell nucleus. For the purpose of Retinal Connectomics, the cell body is generally uninformative. As well as having the nucleus, the dendrites and (not always) an axon also branch off of the cell body.

In EyeWire the cell bodies are often frozen because they take a lot of time to trace, are uninformative, and the AI (Artificial Intelligence) has trouble with them, since it's designed for dendrites.