Welcome to the digital archive of my scientific journey. I created this Google page during graduate school to rapidly develop and share research ideas with my advisors. The entries here vary in completeness, but I've preserved them all as a tribute to the effort and progress. You can access each entry using the navigation dropdown button above.
For more fully developed ideas, please refer to the following:
Effects of scale on segmentation of Nissl–stained rat brain tissue images via convolutional neural networks [link]
Region Detection & Segmentation of Nissl-Stained Rat Brain Tissue [link]
Lastly, here are posters that I either presented or contributed to intellectually (unfortunately, there are no links, but I assure you they exist):
Computer vision-based tools to segment gray and white matter regions in experimental tissue sections and to analyze tracer injection sites mapped in digital atlas space: Use cases for the hypothalamus and ventral tegmental area for circuits related to feeding control. Neuroscience Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, 2019.
Effects of resolution and scale on segmentation of Nissl– stained rat brain tissue images via convolutional neural networks. Global Connectome Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Online, 2021.
An analysis and representation in an atlas reference space of synaptic interactions between alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone-immunoreactive axonal fibers and neurons expressing hypocretin/orexin or melanin concentrating hormone: light and electron microscopic evidence. Global Connectome Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Online, 2021.
Mesoscale and microscale interactions of fibers immunoreactive for α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone and hypocretin/orexin with somata immunoreactive for neuronal nitric oxide synthase: A representation in an atlas reference space of the adult male rat, with supporting ultrastructural evidence. Global Connectome Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Online, 2021.
Hindbrain catecholaminergic and non-catecholaminergic neuronal populations rapidly recruited during glycemic challenge: A fluorescent cell-detecting deep learning model for high-throughput tabulation and atlas-based mapping. Neuroscience Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, 2022
Structural organization of alpha-melanocyte- stimulating hormone, melanin-concentrating hormone, and copeptin within the hypothalamus and/or zona incerta. COURI Spring 2023 Symposium Abstracts, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA, 2023