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    Zhe Chen Headshot
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    Zhe Chen
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    University of California, Los Angeles
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    United States
    Author(s)
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    Zhe Chen
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    University of California, Los Angeles
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    Garrett Blair
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    Affiliation
    University of California, Los Angeles
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    Hugh Blair
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    Affiliation
    University of California, Los Angeles
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    Jason Cong
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    Affiliation
    University of California, Los Angeles
    Abstract

    We propose a FPGA based real-time calcium trace extraction solution for the calcium imaging miniaturized microscope. We introduce a tracing accelerator and a corresponding cell mapping algorithm that can extract traces from a large number of cells in short latency. In addition, we come up with a few latency optimization techniques to further reduce the trace extraction latency with minimal overhead. Our implementation can extract calcium trace values from 1024 cells in a 512x512 calcium image with sub-ms latency, which marks comparable timing resolution of cell firings and existing optogenetic intervention