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Brain decoding is a key neuroscience field that reconstructs the visual stimuli from brain activity with fMRI, which helps illuminate how the brain represents the world. fMRI-to-image reconstruction has achieved impressive progress by…

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Brain decoding, understood as the process of mapping brain activities to the stimuli that generated them, has been an active research area in the last years. In the case of language stimuli, recent studies have shown that it is possible to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Nicolas Affolter , Beni Egressy , Damian Pascual , Roger Wattenhofer

Understanding how the brain responds to external stimuli and decoding this process has been a significant challenge in neuroscience. While previous studies typically concentrated on brain-to-image and brain-to-language reconstruction, our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Chunzheng Zhu , Jialin Shao , Jianxin Lin , Yijun Wang , Jing Wang , Jinhui Tang , Kenli Li

With the advent of brain imaging techniques and machine learning tools, much effort has been devoted to building computational models to capture the encoding of visual information in the human brain. One of the most challenging brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Zarina Rakhimberdina , Quentin Jodelet , Xin Liu , Tsuyoshi Murata

Visual decoding from brain signals is a key challenge at the intersection of computer vision and neuroscience, requiring methods that bridge neural representations and computational models of vision. A field-wide goal is to achieve…

Decoding visual stimuli from neural activity is essential for understanding the human brain. While fMRI methods have successfully reconstructed static images, fMRI-to-video reconstruction faces challenges due to the need for capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Haonan Wang , Qixiang Zhang , Lehan Wang , Xuanqi Huang , Xiaomeng Li

Convolutional neural network (CNN) driven by image recognition has been shown to be able to explain cortical responses to static pictures at ventral-stream areas. Here, we further showed that such CNN could reliably predict and decode…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-15 Haiguang Wen , Junxing Shi , Yizhen Zhang , Kun-Han Lu , Jiayue Cao , Zhongming Liu

Visual reconstruction algorithms are an interpretive tool that map brain activity to pixels. Past reconstruction algorithms employed brute-force search through a massive library to select candidate images that, when passed through an…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-03 Reese Kneeland , Jordyn Ojeda , Ghislain St-Yves , Thomas Naselaris

The reconstruction of cortical surfaces is a prerequisite for quantitative analyses of the cerebral cortex in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Existing segmentation-based methods separate the surface registration from the surface…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Fabian Bongratz , Anne-Marie Rickmann , Christian Wachinger

Understanding how humans process visual information is one of the crucial steps for unraveling the underlying mechanism of brain activity. Recently, this curiosity has motivated the fMRI-to-image reconstruction task; given the fMRI data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Jaehoon Joo , Taejin Jeong , Seongjae Hwang

In the past five years, the use of generative and foundational AI systems has greatly improved the decoding of brain activity. Visual perception, in particular, can now be decoded from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Yohann Benchetrit , Hubert Banville , Jean-Rémi King

Current AI frameworks for brain decoding and encoding, typically train and test models within the same datasets. This limits their utility for brain computer interfaces (BCI) or neurofeedback, for which it would be useful to pool…

Reconstructing perceived natural images from fMRI signals is one of the most engaging topics of neural decoding research. Prior studies had success in reconstructing either the low-level image features or the semantic/high-level aspects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Furkan Ozcelik , Bhavin Choksi , Milad Mozafari , Leila Reddy , Rufin VanRullen

The dispute of how the human brain represents conceptual knowledge has been argued in many scientific fields. Brain imaging studies have shown that the spatial patterns of neural activation in the brain are correlated with thinking about…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-15 Subba Reddy Oota , Naresh Manwani , Bapi Raju S

Reconstructing visual stimulus (image) only from human brain activity measured with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a significant and meaningful task in Human-AI collaboration. However, the inconsistent distribution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Ziqi Ren , Jie Li , Xuetong Xue , Xin Li , Fan Yang , Zhicheng Jiao , Xinbo Gao

Understanding how spontaneous brain activity relates to stimulus-driven neural responses is a fundamental challenge in cognitive neuroscience. While task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) captures localized stimulus-evoked…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-18 Chuyang Zhou , Ziao Ji , Daochang Liu , Dongang Wang , Chenyu Wang , Chang Xu

The reconstruction of cortical surfaces from brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans is essential for quantitative analyses of cortical thickness and sulcal morphology. Although traditional and deep learning-based algorithmic pipelines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Fabian Bongratz , Anne-Marie Rickmann , Sebastian Pölsterl , Christian Wachinger

Automatic segmentation of fine-grained brain structures remains a challenging task. Current segmentation methods mainly utilize 2D and 3D deep neural networks. The 2D networks take image slices as input to produce coarse segmentation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Yuemeng Li , Hangfan Liu , Hongming Li , Yong Fan

Seeing is believing, however, the underlying mechanism of how human visual perceptions are intertwined with our cognitions is still a mystery. Thanks to the recent advances in both neuroscience and artificial intelligence, we have been able…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-17 Yu-Ting Lan , Kan Ren , Yansen Wang , Wei-Long Zheng , Dongsheng Li , Bao-Liang Lu , Lili Qiu

Quantitative modeling of human brain activity based on language representations has been actively studied in systems neuroscience. However, previous studies examined word-level representation, and little is known about whether we could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Eri Matsuo , Ichiro Kobayashi , Shinji Nishimoto , Satoshi Nishida , Hideki Asoh