CaImAn an open source tool for scalable calcium imaging data analysis. Author Andrea Giovannucci, Johannes Friedrich, Pat Gunn, Jérémie Kalfon, Brandon Brown, Sue Koay, Jiannis Taxidis, Farzaneh Najafi, Jeffrey Gauthier, Pengcheng Zhou, Baljit Khakh, David Tank, Dmitri Chklovskii, Eftychios Pnevmatikakis Publication Year 2019 Type Journal Article Abstract Advances in fluorescence microscopy enable monitoring larger brain areas in-vivo with finer time resolution. The resulting data rates require reproducible analysis pipelines that are reliable, fully automated, and scalable to datasets generated over the course of months. We present CaImAn, an open-source library for calcium imaging data analysis. CaImAn provides automatic and scalable methods to address problems common to pre-processing, including motion correction, neural activity identification, and registration across different sessions of data collection. It does this while requiring minimal user intervention, with good scalability on computers ranging from laptops to high-performance computing clusters. CaImAn is suitable for two-photon and one-photon imaging, and also enables real-time analysis on streaming data. To benchmark the performance of CaImAn we collected and combined a corpus of manual annotations from multiple labelers on nine mouse two-photon datasets. We demonstrate that CaImAn achieves near-human performance in detecting locations of active neurons. Keywords Animals, Mice, Humans, Computational Biology, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Calcium, Brain, Neurons, Algorithms, Reproducibility of Results, Motion, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Artifacts, Zebrafish, Software, Data Analysis, Pattern Recognition, Automated, Observer Variation, Photons Journal Elife Volume 8 Date Published 2019 Jan 17 ISSN Number 2050-084X DOI 10.7554/eLife.38173 Alternate Journal Elife PMCID PMC6342523 PMID 30652683 PubMedPubMed CentralGoogle ScholarBibTeXEndNote X3 XML