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+# Project title: Extend auto-merge to fix drift-related spilts
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+### Key Investigators
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+* Alessio Buccino
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+## Project Description
+
+Residuals drifts in the recording could cause a unit to be over-split due to slow drifting over time. When this happens, usually spikes from the unit get assigned to a different unit after a certain point, as in this example:
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+![image](https://github.com/SpikeInterface/SpikeInteface-Hackathon-Edinburgh-May24/assets/17097257/967dd322-7ba6-466e-bf6b-ba5067ebd2f5)
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+Using this temporal overlap information, we could extend the auto-merge function to find and fix this drift-related splits. For example, we could use the presence_ratio increase merged as an additional step in the auto-merge function.
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+
+### Objectives
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+The goal of the project is to extend the auto-merge function to target this specific kinds of oversplits.
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+### Approach and Plan
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+ * [ ] Identify a few datasets and drift-related oversplits examples
+ * [ ] Explore strategies to automatically detect potential merges (e.g., presence ratio, overlap in activity, etc.)
+ * [ ] Test performance on identified oversplits example
+ * [ ] Extend performance test to IBL dataset
+ * [ ] Modify auto-merge function with new steps
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+### Progress
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+Fill in with tentative milestones (or leave blank for later):
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+ * [ ] Make PR to SpikeInterface
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