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Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder in which mild cognitive impairment (MCI) marks a critical transition between aging and dementia. Neuroimaging modalities, such as structural MRI, provide biomarkers of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Vrushank Ahire , Yogesh Kumar , Anouck Girard , M. A. Ganaie

Recent progress in visual brain decoding from fMRI has been enabled by large-scale datasets such as the Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD) and powerful diffusion-based generative models. While current pipelines are primarily optimized for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-20 Fabrizio Spera , Tommaso Boccato , Michal Olak , Sara Cammarota , Matteo Ciferri , Michelangelo Tronti , Nicola Toschi , Matteo Ferrante

The development of algorithms to accurately decode neural information has long been a research focus in the field of neuroscience. Brain decoding typically involves training machine learning models to map neural data onto a preestablished…

Aiming to reconstruct visual stimuli from brain signals, brain decoding has recently made significant progress using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). However, it still has challenging issues such as substantial individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Shuai Jiang , Zhu Meng , Haiwen Li , Delong Liu , Fei Su , Zhicheng Zhao

Enabling effective brain-computer interfaces requires understanding how the human brain encodes stimuli across modalities such as visual, language (or text), etc. Brain encoding aims at constructing fMRI brain activity given a stimulus.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Subba Reddy Oota , Jashn Arora , Vijay Rowtula , Manish Gupta , Raju S. Bapi

Recently, leveraging big data in deep learning has led to significant performance improvements, as confirmed in applications like mental state decoding using fMRI data. However, fMRI datasets remain relatively small in scale, and the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-08 Yuto Nishimura , Masataka Sawayama , Ayumu Yamashita , Hideki Nakayama , Kaoru Amano

A large-scale vision and language model that has been pretrained on massive data encodes visual and linguistic prior, which makes it easier to generate images and language that are more natural and realistic. Despite this, there is still a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Hao Huang , Shuaihang Yuan , Yu Hao , Congcong Wen , Yi Fang

Current approaches to learning semantic representations of sentences often use prior word-level knowledge. The current study aims to leverage visual information in order to capture sentence level semantics without the need for word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Danny Merkx , Stefan Frank

In vision-language pre-training (VLP), masked image modeling (MIM) has recently been introduced for fine-grained cross-modal alignment. However, in most existing methods, the reconstruction targets for MIM lack high-level semantics, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Haowei Liu , Yaya Shi , Haiyang Xu , Chunfeng Yuan , Qinghao Ye , Chenliang Li , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

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…

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) with speech decoding from brain recordings have broad application potential in fields such as clinical rehabilitation and cognitive neuroscience. However, current decoding methods remain limited to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-05 Yi Guo , Yihang Dong , Michael Kwok-Po Ng , Shuqiang Wang

Decoding brain functional states underlying different cognitive processes using multivariate pattern recognition techniques has attracted increasing interests in brain imaging studies. Promising performance has been achieved using brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Hongming Li , Yong Fan

Image-text matching has been a hot research topic bridging the vision and language areas. It remains challenging because the current representation of image usually lacks global semantic concepts as in its corresponding text caption. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Kunpeng Li , Yulun Zhang , Kai Li , Yuanyuan Li , Yun Fu

Many recent studies have shown that the perception of speech can be decoded from brain signals and subsequently reconstructed as continuous language. However, there is a lack of neurological basis for how the semantic information embedded…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Congchi Yin , Ziyi Ye , Piji Li

Visual image reconstruction from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a fundamental task in brain decoding, providing a crucial pathway for understanding human perceptual mechanisms and developing advanced brain-computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yudan Ren , Pengcheng Shi , Zihan Ma , Xiaowei He , Xiao Li

Decoding brain states from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is vital for advancing neuroscience and clinical applications. While traditional machine learning and deep learning approaches have made strides in leveraging the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Danial Jafarzadeh Jazi , Maryam Hajiesmaeili

Recent progress in brain-guided image generation has improved the quality of fMRI-based reconstructions; however, fundamental challenges remain in preserving object-level structure and semantic fidelity. Many existing approaches overlook…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Mohammad Moradi , Morteza Moradi , Marco Grassia , Giuseppe Mangioni

Non-invasive decoding of imagined speech remains challenging due to weak, distributed signals and limited labeled data. Our paper introduces an image-based approach that transforms magnetoencephalography (MEG) signals into time-frequency…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Soufiane Jhilal , Stéphanie Martin , Anne-Lise Giraud

Reconstructing visual stimuli from human brain activity (e.g., fMRI) bridges neuroscience and computer vision by decoding neural representations. However, existing methods often overlook critical brain structure-function relationships,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Sijin Yu , Zijiao Chen , Wenxuan Wu , Shengxian Chen , Zhongliang Liu , Jingxin Nie , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu , Xin Zhang

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