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Fengtong Du

Howard Hughes Medical InstituteORCID 0000-0002-6293-8489Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Neuroscience· 3 Bioengineering· 1

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 3 Assay:electronic health records· 3 Organism:mouse· 3 Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Research Focus:clustering· 2 Research Focus:dimensionality reduction· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2

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Carsen StringeriD· 3 shared Marius PachitariuiD· 3 shared Lin ZhongiD· 2 shared Miguel A. Núñez-OchoaiD· 2 shared Alex SohniD· 1 shared Asad Usmani· 1 shared Atika SyedaiD· 1 shared Baixuan Yang· 1 shared

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CountAnywhere: frugal cell counting and viability from smartphone hemocytometer photos

Matthew Yang, Misgana Mamo, Asad Usmani, Leila Janowska, Baixuan Yang, Mirosław Janowski, Piotr Walczak, Fengtong Du, Yajie Liang

CountAnywhere provides a smartphone-based tool for accurate and efficient cell counting and viability assessment using hemocytometer images.

bioRxiv · Oct 29, 2026 · PreprintBioengineering

Linking neural representations to behavior using generalization

Miguel A. Núñez-Ochoa, Fengtong Du, Lin Zhong, Scott Baptista, Michalis Michaelos, Alex Sohn, Liad J. Baruchin, Sylvia Schröder, Carsen Stringer, Marius Pachitariu

The paper links neural representations to behavior by testing mice's responses to new stimuli and finding that neural discrimination correlates with behavioral performance in specific visual areas.

bioRxiv · Apr 24, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Rastermap: a discovery method for neural population recordings

Carsen Stringer, Lin Zhong, Atika Syeda, Fengtong Du, Maria Kesa, Marius Pachitariu

Rastermap is a visualization method for neural data that sorts neurons along a one-dimensional manifold to reveal activity patterns in high-dimensional recordings.

Nature Neuroscience · Oct 16, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Towards a simplified model of primary visual cortex

Fengtong Du, Miguel A. Núñez-Ochoa, Marius Pachitariu, Carsen Stringer

The paper simplifies artificial neural network models of primary visual cortex while maintaining predictive power, using data from mouse and monkey V1 neurons.

bioRxiv · Jun 30, 2024 · PreprintNeuroscience