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Compression detects changes in spiking neural data from cortical lesions.

Alice Tor¹, Yuxin Wu¹, Stephen E Clarke^2,3

¹Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America.

Journal of Neural Engineering

|March 20, 2026

Summary

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Universal compression algorithms effectively analyze neural data complexity. Inverse compression ratio (ICR) detects brain lesions with high accuracy, outperforming single-neuron metrics and offering a novel tool for neuroscience research.

Keywords:

data compression electrolytic lesion entropy rate motor cortex spiking neural data

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Information Theory
Computational Biology

Background:

Neural data complexity fluctuates during information processing.
Universal compression algorithms exploit data redundancies for near-optimal compression.
These algorithms can estimate Shannon entropy rate, a measure of signal complexity.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore the effectiveness of universal compression algorithms in analyzing spiking neural data.
To investigate the use of Inverse Compression Ratio (ICR) for detecting changes in neural data complexity.
To compare compression-based metrics with traditional methods for neural data analysis.

Main Methods:

Utilized Inverse Compression Ratio (ICR) on Utah array recordings from motor cortex.
Analyzed neural data from animals performing reaching tasks before and after electrolytic lesions.
Calculated ICR using lossless (gzip) and lossy (H.264, MPEG-2) compression algorithms.
Compared ICR with single-neuron metrics (firing rates, Fano factor) and dimensionality reduction techniques (PCA, factor analysis).

Main Results:

ICR significantly detected lesions with higher accuracy (85.7%) than single-neuron metrics (78.6%).
Dimensionality reduction techniques achieved 100% accuracy in lesion detection.
ICR metrics demonstrated greater stability than single-neuron methods post-lesion.
Simulated data indicated ICR's computational advantages.

Conclusions:

Compression algorithms, particularly ICR, show promise as tools for detecting and understanding perturbations in neural data structure.
Information-theoretic analyses can complement existing techniques like dimensionality reduction and firing rate tuning for neural data characterization.