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New method aligns brain data across individuals for better brain decoding.
New method aligns brain surfaces based on functional signatures.
New estimator corrects bias in CKA for sparsely sampled neurons.
Inter-subject registration of cortical areas is necessary in functional imaging (fMRI) studies for making inferences about equivalent brain function across a population. However, many high-level visual brain areas are defined as peaks of functional contrasts whose cortical position is highly variable. As such, most ali…
This paper improves MI-based BCIs by applying transfer learning across all components.
Objective: This paper targets a major challenge in developing practical EEG-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs): how to cope with individual differences so that better learning performance can be obtained for a new subject, with minimum or even no subject-specific data? Methods: We propose a novel approach to align …
Congealing is a flexible nonparametric data-driven framework for the joint alignment of data. It has been successfully applied to the joint alignment of binary images of digits, binary images of object silhouettes, grayscale MRI images, color images of cars and faces, and 3D brain volumes. This research enhances congea…
Aggregating multi-subject functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is indispensable for generating valid and general inferences from patterns distributed across human brains. The disparities in anatomical structures and functional topographies of human brains warrant aligning fMRI data across subjects. However…
In increasingly many settings, data sets consist of multiple samples from a population of networks, with vertices aligned across these networks. For example, brain connectivity networks in neuroscience consist of measures of interaction between brain regions that have been aligned to a common template. We consider the …
Autoencoders identify brain networks linked to stress and genotype.
Geometric framework for aligning fiber tracts across subjects.
Survey of alignment techniques for large language models.
Geometry-aware models improve cross-subject EEG decoding accuracy.
Multi-subject fMRI data analysis is an interesting and challenging problem in human brain decoding studies. The inherent anatomical and functional variability across subjects make it necessary to do both anatomical and functional alignment before classification analysis. Besides, when it comes to big data, time complex…
The backpropagation algorithm has long been the canonical training method for neural networks. Modern paradigms are implicitly optimized for it, and numerous guidelines exist to ensure its proper use. Recently, synthetic gradients methods -where the error gradient is only roughly approximated - have garnered interest. …
Representational similarity analysis (RSA) has been shown to be an effective framework to characterize brain-activity profiles and deep neural network activations as representational geometry by computing the pairwise distances of the response patterns as a representational dissimilarity matrix (RDM). However, how to p…
CREIMBO models diverse brain activity by identifying hidden neural sub-circuits and their non-stationary interactions.
BrainCast predicts whole-brain fMRI time series from short scans.
Paper introduces a framework for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease using higher-order topological features from fMRI.
Comparing data defined over space and time is notoriously hard, because it involves quantifying both spatial and temporal variability, while at the same time taking into account the chronological structure of data. Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) computes an optimal alignment between time series in agreement with the chrono…
Space partitioning methods such as random forests and the Mondrian process are powerful machine learning methods for multi-dimensional and relational data, and are based on recursively cutting a domain. The flexibility of these methods is often limited by the requirement that the cuts be axis aligned. The Ostomachion p…
Novel tRSA combines geometry and topology for brain and model analysis.
New algorithm shows neural networks can learn without full backpropagation.
Paper introduces MSA for weakly supervised covariance alignment in MEG signals.
Multivariate Pattern (MVP) classification can map different cognitive states to the brain tasks. One of the main challenges in MVP analysis is validating the generated results across subjects. However, analyzing multi-subject fMRI data requires accurate functional alignments between neuronal activities of different sub…
Paper proposes a novel method to estimate differential networks using additional knowledge.
Hyperalignment has been widely employed in Multivariate Pattern (MVP) analysis to discover the cognitive states in the human brains based on multi-subject functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) datasets. Most of the existing HA methods utilized unsupervised approaches, where they only maximized the correlation be…
Ongoing studies have identified similarities between neural representations in biological networks and in deep artificial neural networks. This has led to renewed interest in developing analogies between the backpropagation learning algorithm used to train artificial networks and the synaptic plasticity rules operative…
Current algorithms for deep learning probably cannot run in the brain because they rely on weight transport, where forward-path neurons transmit their synaptic weights to a feedback path, in a way that is likely impossible biologically. An algorithm called feedback alignment achieves deep learning without weight transp…
Bayesian model improves BCI performance for ALS users.
Partial soft-matching distance improves neural representation comparison by allowing some neurons to remain unmatched.
Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs) have recently emerged as a clinically viable option to restore voluntary movements after paralysis. These devices are based on the ability to extract information about movement intent from neural signals recorded using multi-electrode arrays chronically implanted in the motor cortices of…
New framework assesses neural sensitivity to small perturbations.
Study shows Direct Feedback Alignment fails to offer more efficient scaling than backpropagation.
Random Feedback Alignment helps solve low-rank matrix factorization problems.
Automated method finds meaningful directions in neural network activations.
We propose a novel framework for graph mean computation.
A new framework for averaging spatio-temporal signals using optimal transport and soft alignments.
Theoretical framework for target propagation shows differences from backpropagation.
CDOT optimizes transport between domains preserving both feature and geometric structure.
SiamJEPA uses Siamese student encoders to improve JEPA-based representation learning.
Local semi-supervised method improves brain tissue classification in child MRI.
DBGDGM models dynamic brain graphs for better understanding brain function.
Deep learning models brain deformations based on atrophy and growth data.
Brain decoding is a popular multivariate approach for hypothesis testing in neuroimaging. It is well known that the brain maps derived from weights of linear classifiers are hard to interpret because of high correlations between predictors, low signal to noise ratios, and the high dimensionality of neuroimaging data. T…
Brain tumor segmentation from Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) is an important task to measure tumor responses to treatments. However, automatic segmentation is very challenging. This paper presents an automatic brain tumor segmentation method based on a Normalized Gaussian Bayesian classification and a new 3D Fluid Ve…
Extracts causal brain dynamics across multiple scales.
The backpropagation of error algorithm (BP) is impossible to implement in a real brain. The recent success of deep networks in machine learning and AI, however, has inspired proposals for understanding how the brain might learn across multiple layers, and hence how it might approximate BP. As of yet, none of these prop…