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The design of artificial neural networks (ANNs) is inspired by the structure of the human brain, and in turn, ANNs offer a potential means to interpret and understand brain signals. Existing methods primarily align brain signals with…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-08 Yang Xiao , Wang Lu , Jie Ji , Ruimeng Ye , Gen Li , Xiaolong Ma , Bo Hui

Since their inception, artificial neural networks have relied on manually designed architectures and inductive biases to better adapt to data and tasks. With the rise of deep learning and the expansion of parameter spaces, they have begun…

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Brain network analysis has emerged as pivotal method for gaining a deeper understanding of brain functions and disease mechanisms. Despite the existence of various network construction approaches, shortcomings persist in the learning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Yongcheng Zong , Shuqiang Wang

Whole brain segmentation on a structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential in non-invasive investigation for neuroanatomy. Historically, multi-atlas segmentation (MAS) has been regarded as the de facto standard method for whole…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Yuankai Huo , Zhoubing Xu , Katherine Aboud , Prasanna Parvathaneni , Shunxing Bao , Camilo Bermudez , Susan M. Resnick , Laurie E. Cutting , Bennett A. Landman

Accurate segmentation of organs or lesions from medical images is crucial for reliable diagnosis of diseases and organ morphometry. In recent years, convolutional encoder-decoder solutions have achieved substantial progress in the field of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Bingzhi Chen , Yishu Liu , Zheng Zhang , Guangming Lu , Adams Wai Kin Kong

Recent advances in deep learning have made it possible to predict phenotypic measures directly from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain volumes, sparking significant interest in the neuroimaging community. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Arunkumar Kannan , Martin A. Lindquist , Brian Caffo

The use of vision transformers (ViT) in computer vision is increasing due to limited inductive biases (e.g., locality, weight sharing, etc.) and increased scalability compared to other deep learning methods. This has led to some initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Steven A. Grosz , Anil K. Jain

The extension of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to non-Euclidean geometries has led to multiple frameworks for studying manifolds. Many of those methods have shown design limitations resulting in poor modelling of long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Simon Dahan , Abdulah Fawaz , Logan Z. J. Williams , Chunhui Yang , Timothy S. Coalson , Matthew F. Glasser , A. David Edwards , Daniel Rueckert , Emma C. Robinson

Pretrained foundation models offer substantial benefits for a wide range of downstream tasks, which can be one of the most potential techniques to access artificial general intelligence. However, scaling up foundation transformers for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xingrun Xing , Li Du , Xinyuan Wang , Xianlin Zeng , Yequan Wang , Zheng Zhang , Jiajun Zhang

The extension of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to non-Euclidean geometries has led to multiple frameworks for studying manifolds. Many of those methods have shown design limitations resulting in poor modelling of long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Simon Dahan , Logan Z. J. Williams , Abdulah Fawaz , Daniel Rueckert , Emma C. Robinson

While the prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is increasing, research continues in an effort to identify common etiological and pathophysiological bases. In this regard, modern machine learning and network science pave the way for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-06 Sarah Itani , Dorina Thanou

Skin lesion segmentation from dermoscopy images is of great importance for improving the quantitative analysis of skin cancer. However, the automatic segmentation of melanoma is a very challenging task owing to the large variation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Jiacheng Wang , Lan Wei , Liansheng Wang , Qichao Zhou , Lei Zhu , Jing Qin

Whole brain segmentation on structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for understanding neuroanatomical-functional relationships. Traditionally, multi-atlas segmentation has been regarded as the standard method for whole…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Yunxi Xiong , Yuankai Huo , Jiachen Wang , L. Taylor Davis , Maureen McHugo , Bennett A. Landman

Population imaging markedly increased the size of functional-imaging datasets, shedding new light on the neural basis of inter-individual differences. Analyzing these large data entails new scalability challenges, computational and…

Cognitive task classification using machine learning plays a central role in decoding brain states from neuroimaging data. By integrating machine learning with brain network analysis, complex connectivity patterns can be extracted from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Debasis Maji , Arghya Banerjee , Debaditya Barman

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

Functional connectivity (FC) analysis, a valuable tool for computer-aided brain disorder diagnosis, traditionally relies on atlas-based parcellation. However, issues relating to selection bias and a lack of regard for subject specificity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Tyler Ward , Abdullah Imran

Early identification of head and neck cancer (HNC) patients who would experience significant anatomical change during radiotherapy (RT) is important to optimize patient clinical benefit and treatment resources. This study aims to assess the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Meixu Chen , Kai Wang , Michael Dohopolski , Howard Morgan , David Sher , Jing Wang

A connectional brain template (CBT) is a normalized graph-based representation of a population of brain networks also regarded as an average connectome. CBTs are powerful tools for creating representative maps of brain connectivity in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Mustafa Burak Gurbuz , Islem Rekik

Early brain development is crucial for lifelong neurodevelopmental health. However, current clinical practice offers limited knowledge of normal embryonic brain anatomy on ultrasound, despite the brain undergoing rapid changes within the…