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Brain encoder models predict cortical fMRI responses from the internal activations of pretrained vision and language networks, and are typically evaluated by held-out prediction accuracy. This is a useful signal for training but a poor one…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-15 Stuart Bladon , Brinnae Bent

Recent work has demonstrated that complex visual stimuli can be decoded from human brain activity using deep generative models, offering new ways to probe how the brain represents real-world scenes. However, many existing approaches first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Pinyuan Feng , Hossein Adeli , Wenxuan Guo , Fan Cheng , Ethan Hwang , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

The goal of this study is to investigate whether latent space representations of visual stimuli and fMRI data share common information. Decoding and reconstructing stimuli from fMRI data remains a challenge in AI and neuroscience, with…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-28 Cesare Maria Dalbagno , Manuel de Castro Ribeiro Jardim , Mihnea Angheluţă

Reconstructing the viewed images from human brain activity bridges human and computer vision through the Brain-Computer Interface. The inherent variability in brain function between individuals leads existing literature to focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ruijie Quan , Wenguan Wang , Zhibo Tian , Fan Ma , Yi Yang

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a notoriously noisy measurement of brain activity because of the large variations between individuals, signals marred by environmental differences during collection, and spatiotemporal…

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (LLMs) have enabled unified reasoning across images, audio, and video, but extending such capability to brain imaging remains largely unexplored. Bridging this gap is essential to link…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yuxiang Wei , Yanteng Zhang , Xi Xiao , Chengxuan Qian , Tianyang Wang , Vince D. Calhoun

Reconstructing human vision from brain activities has been an appealing task that helps to understand our cognitive process. Even though recent research has seen great success in reconstructing static images from non-invasive brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Zijiao Chen , Jiaxin Qing , Juan Helen Zhou

Brain-to-Image reconstruction aims to recover visual stimuli perceived by humans from brain activity. However, the reconstructed visual stimuli often missing details and semantic inconsistencies, which may be attributed to insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Runze Xia , Shuo Feng , Renzhi Wang , Congchi Yin , Xuyun Wen , Piji Li

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

Non-invasive brainwave decoding is usually done using Magneto/Electroencephalography (MEG/EEG) sensor measurements as inputs. This makes combining datasets and building models with inductive biases difficult as most datasets use different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Yonatan Gideoni , Ryan Charles Timms , Oiwi Parker Jones

Deciphering how visual stimuli are transformed into cortical responses is a fundamental challenge in computational neuroscience. This visual-to-neural mapping is inherently a one-to-many relationship, as identical visual inputs reliably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Weijian Mai , Jiamin Wu , Yu Zhu , Zhouheng Yao , Dongzhan Zhou , Andrew F. Luo , Qihao Zheng , Wanli Ouyang , Chunfeng Song

Understanding how the brain represents visual information is a fundamental challenge in neuroscience and artificial intelligence. While AI-driven decoding of neural data has provided insights into the human visual system, integrating…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Dongyang Li , Haoyang Qin , Mingyang Wu , Chen Wei , Quanying Liu

Due to the lack of paired samples and the low signal-to-noise ratio of functional MRI (fMRI) signals, reconstructing perceived natural images or decoding their semantic contents from fMRI data are challenging tasks. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yulong Liu , Yongqiang Ma , Wei Zhou , Guibo Zhu , Nanning Zheng

Brain-to-image decoding has been recently propelled by the progress in generative AI models and the availability of large ultra-high field functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). However, current approaches depend on complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Marlène Careil , Yohann Benchetrit , Jean-Rémi King

The reconstruction of cerebral cortex surfaces from brain MRI scans is instrumental for the analysis of brain morphology and the detection of cortical thinning in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease (AD). Moreover, for a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-05 Anne-Marie Rickmann , Fabian Bongratz , Sebastian Pölsterl , Ignacio Sarasua , Christian Wachinger

Reconstructions of visual perception from brain activity have improved tremendously, but the practical utility of such methods has been limited. This is because such models are trained independently per subject where each subject requires…

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) relies on radiofrequency (RF) excitation of proton spin. Clinical diagnosis requires a comprehensive collation of biophysical data via multiple MRI contrasts, acquired using a series of RF sequences that…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Dinor Nagar , Moritz Zaiss , Or Perlman

Decoding stimulus images from fMRI signals has advanced with pre-trained generative models. However, existing methods struggle with cross-subject mappings due to cognitive variability and subject-specific differences. This challenge arises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yangyang Xu , Bangzhen Liu , Wenqi Shao , Yong Du , Shengfeng He , Tingting Zhu

Whole-brain surface extraction is an essential topic in medical imaging systems as it provides neurosurgeons with a broader view of surgical planning and abnormality detection. To solve the problem confronted in current deep learning skull…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Heng Fang , Xi Yang , Taichi Kin , Takeo Igarashi

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