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AI-generated synthetic neurons speed up brain mapping

Michał Januszewski, Research Scientist, and Franz Rieger, Student Researcher, Google Research Generating synthetic neuron geometries helps AI learn to better classify neurons by their shape, speeding up future brain map reconstructions. Quick links Paper MoGen model Connectomics website Share Copy link × Using computers to create full wiring maps of complex brains is enabling a new era of neuroscience. A recently released map of the complete male fruit fly brain and central nervous system provides a foundational resource for studying how the brain responds to stimuli and controls the body. But reconstructing the entire brains of mammals, and certainly of humans, remains far out of reach. The fruit fly brain map, with 166,000 neurons, represents years of work by AI-enabled computers and human experts. A complete mouse brain is a thousand times larger, and a human brain is a thousand times larger than that. …

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16 Apr 2026 12:18 UTC