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Deep neural networks have been developed drawing inspiration from the brain visual pathway, implementing an end-to-end approach: from image data to video object classes. However building an fMRI decoder with the typical structure of…

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Brain decoding techniques are essential for understanding the neurocognitive system. Although numerous methods have been introduced in this field, accurately aligning complex external stimuli with brain activities remains a formidable…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-16 Heng Huang , Lin Zhao , Zihao Wu , Xiaowei Yu , Jing Zhang , Xintao Hu , Dajiang Zhu , Tianming Liu

Encoding and decoding models are widely used in systems, cognitive, and computational neuroscience to make sense of brain-activity data. However, the interpretation of their results requires care. Decoding models can help reveal whether…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-04-29 Nikolaus Kriegeskorte , Pamela K. Douglas

Whole-brain parcellation from MRI is a critical yet challenging task due to the complexity of subdividing the brain into numerous small, irregular shaped regions. Traditionally, template-registration methods were used, but recent advances…

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The study of neurocognitive tasks requiring accurate localisation of activity often rely on functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, a widely adopted technique that makes use of a pipeline of data processing modules, each involving a variety…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Albert Vilamala , Kristoffer Hougaard Madsen , Lars Kai Hansen

Brain-computer interface (BCI) decodes brain signals to understand user intention and status. Because of its simple and safe data acquisition process, electroencephalogram (EEG) is commonly used in non-invasive BCI. One of EEG paradigms,…

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Brains learn to represent information from a large set of stimuli, typically by weak supervision. Unsupervised learning is therefore a natural approach for exploring the design of biological neural networks and their computations.…

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Medical images used in clinical practice are heterogeneous and not the same quality as scans studied in academic research. Preprocessing breaks down in extreme cases when anatomy, artifacts, or imaging parameters are unusual or protocols…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi , Mads Nielsen

Improving the interpretability of brain decoding approaches is of primary interest in many neuroimaging studies. Despite extensive studies of this type, at present, there is no formal definition for interpretability of brain decoding…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-21 Seyed Mostafa Kia , Andrea Passerini

We propose a unified optimization framework that combines neural networks with dictionary learning to model complex interactions between resting state functional MRI and behavioral data. The dictionary learning objective decomposes patient…

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Advances in optical neuroimaging techniques now allow neural activity to be recorded with cellular resolution in awake and behaving animals. Brain motion in these recordings pose a unique challenge. The location of individual neurons must…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-22 Jeffrey P. Nguyen , Ashley N. Linder , George S. Plummer , Joshua W. Shaevitz , Andrew M. Leifer

Brain-related research topics in artificial intelligence have recently gained popularity, particularly due to the expansion of what multimodal architectures can do from computer vision to natural language processing. Our main goal in this…

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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

Decoding visual experiences from fMRI offers a powerful avenue to understand human perception and develop advanced brain-computer interfaces. However, current progress often prioritizes maximizing reconstruction fidelity while overlooking…

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Human perception plays a vital role in forming beliefs and understanding reality. A deeper understanding of brain functionality will lead to the development of novel deep neural networks. In this work, we introduce a novel framework named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Xuan-Bac Nguyen , Xin Li , Pawan Sinha , Samee U. Khan , Khoa Luu

Neuroscientists and neuroengineers have long relied on multielectrode neural recordings to study the brain. However, in a typical experiment, many factors corrupt neural recordings from individual electrodes, including electrical noise,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Sabera Talukder , Jennifer J. Sun , Matthew Leonard , Bingni W. Brunton , Yisong Yue

This paper introduces decentralized and modular neural network framework designed to enhance the scalability, interpretability, and performance of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. At the heart of this framework is a dynamic switch…

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Motor imagery (MI) is a well-documented technique used by subjects in BCI (Brain Computer Interface) experiments to modulate brain activity within the motor cortex and surrounding areas of the brain. In our term project, we conducted an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Giovanni Jana , Corey Karnei , Shuvam Keshari

Brain decoding that classifies cognitive states using the functional fluctuations of the brain can provide insightful information for understanding the brain mechanisms of cognitive functions. Among the common procedures of decoding the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Jianfei Zhu , Baichun Wei , Jiaru Tian , Feng Jiang , Chunzhi Yi

A main concern in cognitive neuroscience is to decode the overt neural spike train observations and infer latent representations under neural circuits. However, traditional methods entail strong prior on network structure and hardly meet…

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