CaLab¶
Calcium imaging analysis tools — deconvolution and data preparation.
Calcium imaging captures neural activity as fluorescence traces, but the raw signal is a blurred, noisy proxy for the underlying spiking activity. Deconvolution recovers a sharp estimate of that activity from the slow calcium indicator dynamics. CaLab makes this step fast and tunable: a compiled Rust FISTA solver runs the math, an interactive browser UI lets you dial in the parameters on real data, and Python utilities handle the rest — loading traces from CaImAn or Minian, batch processing, and exporting results.
CaLab provides two deconvolution approaches:
CaTune — interactive parameter tuning in the browser, then batch deconvolution with those parameters
CaDecon — automated deconvolution that estimates parameters from your data
pip install calab