PASTORE , Vito Paolo

We implemented an automated and efficient open-source software for the analysis of multi-site neuronal spike signals. The software package, named SpiCoDyn, has been developed as a standalone windows GUI application, using C# programming language with Microsoft Visual Studio based on .NET framework 4.5 development environment. Accepted input...

Functional-effective connectivity and network topology are nowadays key issues for studying brain physiological functions and pathologies. Inferring neuronal connectivity from electrophysiological recordings presents open challenges and unsolved problems. In this work, we present a cross-correlation based method for reliably estimating not only...

Thanks to recent improvements in the neurotechnology, parallel recordings with an ever-increasing number of micro-transducers are now available to monitor the neuronal spiking activity CP of large-scale neuronal networks. At the same time, continuous improvements are required to develop computationally efficient software for processing and...

VisionTool is an open-source python toolbox for semantic features extraction, capable to provide accurate features detectors for different applications, including motion analysis, markerless pose estimation, face recognition and biological cell tracking. VisionTool leverages transfer-learning with a large variety of deep neural networks...

Plankton is one of the most abundant and diverse class of microscopic organisms inhabiting the Earth. Their enormous intra- and inter-species genetic and phenotypic diversity, coupled with the limited amount of large survey data, makes it hard to obtain a complete representation of this important class of organisms. Hence, the classification...

Fast, accurate and reliable methods to quantify the amount of myelin still lack, both in humans and experimental models. The overall objective of the present study was to demonstrate that sphingomyelin (SM) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients affected by demyelinating neuropathies is a myelin biomarker. We found that SM levels mirror...