TerminalSegment

TerminalSegment is the branch that ends as a terminal branch. This function returns "1" for all the compartments in the terminal branch.

Function Output Type : Boolean

Calculated : At Entire Neuron

Command Line Usage Function : "-f19, 0, 0, 10.0"

Output:
Metric Total_Sum #Compartments
(considered)
#Compartments
(discarded)
Minimum Average Maximum S.D.
TerminalSegment 103 103 (1451) 1 1 1 0
*All units are counts

Output Interpretation :

We use this metric in two different ways. The standard way is to use as a function which gives total number of compartments that end as terminal branch. Second is to use it in the specificity to differentiate the terminal branches Vs internal branches, where TerminalSegment == 1 (for terminal branches) and the inverse TerminalSegment>1(for internal branches).

Minimum, Average, Maximum will always be 1.


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