Neural image processing by dendritic networks

AUTOR(ES)

Cuntz, Hermann

FONTE

National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

Convolution is one of the most common operations in image processing. Based on experimental findings on motion-sensitive visual interneurons of the fly, we show by realistic compartmental modeling that a dendritic network can implement this operation. In a first step, dendritic electrical coupling between two cells spatially blurs the original motion input. The blurred motion image is then passed onto a third cell via inhibitory dendritic synapses resulting in a sharpening of the signal. This enhancement of motion contrast may be the central element of figure–ground discrimination based on relative motion in the fly.

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