Publications by Alessandro Enrico Foni

Synthesis of geometrically realistic and watertight neuronal ultrastructure manifolds for in silico modeling

Daniel Keller, Marwan Muhammad Ahmed Abdellah, Jean-Denis Georges Emile Courcol, Jay Coggan, Georges Khazen, Judit Planas Carbonell, Elvis Boci, Nadir Roman Guerrero, Juan José García Cantero, Alessandro Enrico Foni

Understanding the intracellular dynamics of brain cells entails performing three-dimensional molecular simulations incorporating ultrastructural models that can capture cellular membrane geometries at nanometer scales. While there is an abundance of neuron ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2024

Ultraliser: a framework for creating multiscale, high-fidelity and geometrically realistic 3D models for in silico neuroscience

Pierre Magistretti, Henry Markram, Felix Schürmann, Daniel Keller, Marwan Muhammad Ahmed Abdellah, Jay Coggan, Nadir Roman Guerrero, Juan José García Cantero, Alessandro Enrico Foni, Eleftherios Zisis

Ultraliser is a neuroscience-specific software framework capable of creating accurate and biologically realistic 3D models of complex neuroscientific structures at intracellular (e.g. mitochondria and endoplasmic reticula), cellular (e.g. neurons and glia) ...

2023

Meshing of Spiny Neuronal Morphologies using Union Operators

Felix Schürmann, Marwan Muhammad Ahmed Abdellah, Elvis Boci, Nadir Roman Guerrero, Juan José García Cantero, Alessandro Enrico Foni

Neurons are characterized by thin and long interleaving arborizations in which creating accurate mesh models of their cellular membranes is challenging. While union operators are central for CAD/CAM modeling and computer graphics applications, their applic ...

2022

Metaball skinning of synthetic astroglial morphologies into realistic mesh models for visual analytics and in silico simulations

Henry Markram, Felix Schürmann, Daniel Keller, Marwan Muhammad Ahmed Abdellah, Jay Coggan, Samuel Lieven D. Lapere, Nadir Roman Guerrero, Alessandro Enrico Foni, Eleftherios Zisis

Motivation: Astrocytes, the most abundant glial cells in the mammalian brain, have an instrumental role in developing neuronal circuits. They contribute to the physical structuring of the brain, modulating synaptic activity and maintaining the blood-brain ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2021

Digital Reconstruction of the Neuro-Glia-Vascular Architecture

Henry Markram, Kathryn Hess Bellwald, Lida Kanari, Felix Schürmann, Daniel Keller, Marwan Muhammad Ahmed Abdellah, Alexis Arnaudon, Corrado Cali, Michael Emiel Gevaert, Thomas Brice Delemontex

Astrocytes connect the vasculature to neurons mediating the supply of nutrients and biochemicals. They are involved in a growing number of physiological and pathophysiological processes that result from biophysical, physiological, and molecular interaction ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2021

High Fidelity Visualization of Large Scale Digitally Reconstructed Brain Circuitry with Signed Distance Functions

Felix Schürmann, Marwan Muhammad Ahmed Abdellah, Sébastien Nicolas Speierer, Samuel Lieven D. Lapere, Alessandro Enrico Foni, Jonas Kristofer Karlsson

We explore a first proof-of-concept application for visualizing large scale digitally reconstructed brain circuitry using signed distance functions. The significance of our method is demonstrated in comparison with using implicit geometry that is limited t ...

IEEE2019