Offline tools:
• Osort; Waveclus
• Require huge time investments.
• Results between experimenters can widely differ.
Online tools:
• STDP (Bernert and Blaise 2018)
• KiloSort (Pachitariu et al. NIPS 2016)
• Untested.
• No ground truth with real datasets for accuracy test.
STDP
• Pros: Unique approach to spike sorting, seems to
outperform other methods.
• Cons: Might have issues with correlated noise.
KiloSort
• Phy (python gui for visualizing electrophys data)
• Pros: Designed for multi-unit recordings.
• Cons: Highly sensitive to manually-set parameters.
University of Rochester
Spring 2019
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