Scientific research in complex fields such as neuroscience is getting a boost from artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning. A new study by researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., shows how AI has the potential to advance neuroscience by identifying and tracking neurons in moving animals.

“Machine learning is ideally suited to automate the task of segmenting and tracking neurons,” wrote lead author Sahand Jamal Rahi, along with coauthors Aravinthan Samuel, Corinne Jones, Vladislav Susoy, Ariane Delrocq, Kseniia Korchagina, Mahsa Barzegar-Keshteli, and Core Francisco Park.

Cognitive neuroscience is the branch of neuroscience and biological psychology that studies the neural mechanisms of........

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