Researchers compare brain connectomes using geodesic distance on manifold for twin pairs.
problem Assessing functional similarity in brain networks between monozygotic and dizygotic twins.
method Using fMRI data, the researchers compared functional networks between mono- and dizygotic twin pairs by measuring similarity with geodesic distance on graph Laplacians.
result Functional networks are more similar in monozygotic twins compared to dizygotic twins, and similarity is higher for task-relevant networks.
BrainCast predicts whole-brain fMRI time series from short scans.
problem Short scans reduce fMRI data quality and statistical power.
method Spatio-temporal forecasting framework for fMRI time series.
result BrainCast improves fMRI time series quality and prediction.
DynDepNet learns dynamic brain graphs from fMRI data for better prediction performance.
problem Static brain graphs from fMRI data lead to poor GNN performance.
method Dynamic Graph Structure Learning for time-varying brain connectivity.
result DynDepNet achieves state-of-the-art sex classification accuracy on real-world fMRI data.
This work improves deep learning models for fMRI by generating realistic brain morphology images.
problem Limited dataset sizes for functional MRI limit the accuracy of deep learning models.
method Proposes a method to generate new fMRI images with realistic brain morphology.
result Demonstrates a 26% improvement in predicting antidepressant treatment response using augmented images.
New model extracts shared brain activity patterns from fMRI data.
problem Challenges in aggregating multi-subject fMRI data due to variability.
method Shared Gaussian Process Factor Analysis (S-GPFA) incorporating temporal information.
result Model reveals ground truth latent structures and replicates experimental performance.
This study shows how EEG can be used to generate fMRI data.
problem Mapping fMRI from EEG signals.
method Deep learning approaches (Autoencoders, GANs, Pairwise Learning).
result Feasibility of EEG to fMRI brain image mappings.
New RNN model learns from fMRI data better than existing methods.
problem Difficulties in gathering large fMRI datasets and lack of interpretability.
method Developed a novel RNN-based model that learns to discriminate and generate fMRI data.
result Improves classification learning and produces meaningful functional communities.
Survey of deep learning methods for fMRI natural image reconstruction.
problem Reconstructing natural images from fMRI brain activity.
method Survey of deep learning approaches, including architectural design, datasets, and evaluation metrics.
result Performance evaluation across standardized metrics.
Framework identifies brain connectivity alterations for MDD patients using limited rs-fMRI data.
problem Difficult to analyze brain connectivity alterations from limited rs-fMRI data.
method Proposed a multitask Gaussian Bayesian network (MTGBN) framework to learn individual disease-induced alterations.
result Framework efficiently learns Bayesian network structures from limited data, showing improved performance.
Deep transfer learning improves fMRI decoding from small datasets.
problem Small sample size and high dimensionality of fMRI datasets.
method Transfer learning using a pre-trained deep learning model on a large dataset.
result A pre-trained DL model outperforms a model trained from scratch on a new dataset.
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a powerful non-invasive tool for localizing and analyzing brain activity. This study focuses on one very important aspect of the functional properties of human brain, specifically the estimation of the level of parallelism when performing complex cognitive tasks. Using fM…
Graph Neural Network identifies ASD biomarkers from fMRI data.
problem Finding biomarkers for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
method Graph Neural Network (GNN) for analyzing task-fMRI brain networks, 2-stage pipeline to interpret feature importance.
result GNN achieves high accuracy in identifying ASD biomarkers and reveals their association with social behaviors.
Finding the most effective way to aggregate multi-subject fMRI data is a long-standing and challenging problem. It is of increasing interest in contemporary fMRI studies of human cognition due to the scarcity of data per subject and the variability of brain anatomy and functional response across subjects. Recent work o…
Locally Linear Embedding improves psychiatric diagnosis accuracy from fMRI data.
problem Improving psychiatric diagnosis accuracy from fMRI data.
method Locally Linear Embedding of BOLD time-series data to optimise feature selection using LOOCV.
result Embedded fMRI gave highly diagnostic performances (> 80%) on eleven publicly-available datasets.
Develops GIN for fMRI sex classification, explaining results.
problem Difficulty in explaining GNN classification results in neuroscientific terms.
method Develops Graph Isomorphism Network (GIN) for fMRI data, leveraging CNN saliency maps.
result GIN enables visualization of brain regions important for sex classification.
A new ICA method adds L1-regularization for better interpretability of fMRI data.
problem Improving interpretability of ICA features in high-dimensional fMRI data.
method L1-regularization added to ICA cost function, solved by DCA.
result Validated on synthetic and real fMRI data, improving feature interpretability.
A novel topological method analyzes fMRI data over time.
problem Analyzing time-varying fMRI data due to noise and person-to-person variation.
method Encoding each time point as a persistence diagram of topological features.
result Time-varying persistence diagrams can cluster participants and study brain state trajectories.
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) relies on multi-step data processing pipelines to accurately determine brain activity; among them, the crucial step of spatial smoothing. These pipelines are commonly suboptimal, given the local optimisation strategy they use, treating each step in isolation. With the advent…
Neuroimaging modalities such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) provide information about neurological functions in complementary spatiotemporal resolutions; therefore, fusion of these modalities is expected to provide better understanding of brain activity. In this paper, …
Sparse ELM classifier predicts brain ages from adolescent multimodal brain data.
problem Predicting brain ages from adolescent multimodal brain data with high accuracy.
method Sparse ELM classifier using residual errors for feature pruning.
result RES-ELM classifier outperforms conventional and sparse Bayesian learning ELM.
Deep learning classifies autism vs controls with high accuracy using large fMRI dataset.
problem Classification difficulty of autism vs typically developing controls with fMRI data.
method Ensemble CNN model trained on 43,858 fMRI datapoints, employing class-balancing and visualization methods.
result Deep learning models achieve AUROCs of 0.6774, 0.7680, and 0.9222 for ASD vs TD, gender, and task vs rest classifications.
New model identifies nonlinear brain dynamics from fMRI data.
problem Identifying nonlinear brain dynamics from fMRI data.
method Generative piecewise-linear recurrent neural networks (PLRNN) coupled with fMRI data.
result The latent dynamics of fMRI data reveal nonlinear structures not captured by linear models.
Understanding the functional architecture of the brain in terms of networks is becoming increasingly common. In most fMRI applications functional networks are assumed to be stationary, resulting in a single network estimated for the entire time course. However recent results suggest that the connectivity between brain …
Dynamic functional connectivity (FC) has in recent years become a topic of interest in the neuroimaging community. Several models and methods exist for both functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG), and the results point towards the conclusion that FC exhibits dynamic changes. The e…
New method reconstructs images from fMRI data using unlabeled data.
problem Challenges in acquiring labeled data for fMRI-to-image reconstruction.
method Self-supervised training with Encoder-Decoder and Decoder-Encoder networks.
result Reconstruction network adapts to new unlabeled test data.
Tensor models improve joint EEG and fMRI analysis.
problem Jointly analyzing EEG and fMRI for brain function studies.
method Soft and flexible coupling of tensor decompositions for EEG and fMRI.
result Tensorial methods outperform ICA in multi-modal analysis.
Graph embedding improves fMRI classification and reveals brain region differences in ASD.
problem Difficult to embed informative brain fMRI representations due to high dimensionality and low SNR.
method Modelled fMRI as a graph, used GNN to learn from graph data, incorporated mutual information loss (Infomax).
result Infomax graph embedding improves classification performance and reveals separable nodal representations of ASD and HC groups.
A simplified model for brain activity measurement.
problem Estimating the BOLD response in fMRI data.
method Proposes a lightweight model for HRF with fewer parameters.
result Reduces optimization complexity and facilitates applications.
Machine learning analyzes resting-state fMRI data for patterns.
problem Analyzing complex fMRI data for meaningful patterns.
method Unsupervised and supervised machine learning methods.
result Success in predicting subject-level outcomes.
Causal discovery improves fMRI analysis, but faces challenges.
problem Challenges in applying causal discovery to fMRI data.
method Identifying and addressing nine challenges in fMRI causal discovery.
result Current methods for fMRI causal discovery need improvement.
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…
Proposes a new method for analyzing fMRI data using gradient-based RSA and Searchlight.
problem Time-consuming and stability issues in classical RSA techniques for large-scale fMRI data.
method Gradient-based Representational Similarity Analysis (GRSA) with Searchlight.
result SSL-GRSA achieves superior performance compared to other RSA algorithms on multi-subject datasets.
The paper uses distance correlation for brain connectivity and a novel multi-task learning model for age prediction.
problem Estimating age-related gender differences in brain functional connectivity.
method Estimates functional connectivity using distance correlation and proposes a non-convex multi-task learning model.
result The proposed non-convex multi-task learning model outperforms other models in age prediction and gender-specific connectivity.
Multitask learning can be effective when features useful in one task are also useful for other tasks, and the group lasso is a standard method for selecting a common subset of features. In this paper, we are interested in a less restrictive form of multitask learning, wherein (1) the available features can be organized…
A graph-based model aligns unaligned fMRI data across subjects efficiently.
problem Aligning fMRI data from different subjects with varying responses to stimuli.
method Develops a graph-based model to represent similarities between fMRI samples, regularizes the framework for efficient optimization, and uses kernel-based feature extraction.
result The method outperforms state-of-the-art techniques on both temporally-aligned and unaligned fMRI data.
The main goal of this study is to extract a set of brain networks in multiple time-resolutions to analyze the connectivity patterns among the anatomic regions for a given cognitive task. We suggest a deep architecture which learns the natural groupings of the connectivity patterns of human brain in multiple time-resolu…
In this paper, the task-related fMRI problem is treated in its matrix factorization formulation, focused on the Dictionary Learning (DL) approach. The new method allows the incorporation of a priori knowledge associated both with the experimental design as well as with available brain Atlases. Moreover, the proposed me…
NTFA models participant and stimulus variations in fMRI data.
problem Lack of statistical tools to examine participant differences in neuroimaging studies.
method NTFA, a probabilistic factor analysis model inferring embeddings for participants and stimuli.
result NTFA improves predictive generalization and downstream tasks.
New methods improve brain data analysis from fMRI datasets.
problem Simplified brain models from correlational values are insufficient.
method Deep learning and geometric deep learning techniques.
result Improved predictive spatio-temporal brain data representation.
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 Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), i.e. learning multiple level of representations, se…
New method improves interpretability of fMRI decoding models.
problem Uninterpretable deep neural networks in fMRI decoding.
method Adversarial training to make DNNs robust to noise and improved saliency map methods.
result Saliency maps from adversarial-trained DNNs are more interpretable than those from other methods.
There is a growing interest in joint multi-subject fMRI analysis. The challenge of such analysis comes from inherent anatomical and functional variability across subjects. One approach to resolving this is a shared response factor model. This assumes a shared and time synchronized stimulus across subjects. Such a model…
We propose a novel denoising framework for task functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (tfMRI) data to delineate the high-resolution spatial pattern of the brain functional connectivity via dictionary learning and sparse coding (DLSC). In order to address the limitations of the unsupervised DLSC-based fMRI studies, we u…
Normative modeling has recently been proposed as an alternative for the case-control approach in modeling heterogeneity within clinical cohorts. Normative modeling is based on single-output Gaussian process regression that provides coherent estimates of uncertainty required by the method but does not consider spatial c…
Improved fMRI analysis models enhance classification performance and select relevant brain regions.
problem Inaccurate selection of relevant brain components in MVPA models.
method Hybrid Sparsity-Ranked LASSO (JSRL) method integrating component-level and voxel-level activity.
result JSRL models achieve up to 51.7% improvement in cross-validated deviance R2 and 7.3% improvement in cross-validated AUC. ST-GCN improves rs-fMRI prediction accuracy by modeling spatio-temporal graph connectivity.
problem Existing rs-fMRI methods neglect functional connectivity or temporal dynamics.
method Spatio-temporal graph convolutional network (ST-GCN) trained on BOLD time series.
result ST-GCN predicts gender and age more accurately than common methods.
Paper detects abnormalities in brain activity patterns using unsupervised learning.
problem Detecting abnormalities in resting-state brain activity patterns.
method Two strategies: autoencoder approach and next frame prediction.
result Both approaches can learn useful representations of rs-fMRI data for abnormality detection.
Paper presents a method to diagnose schizophrenia using fMRI dynamics from healthy controls.
problem Early diagnosis of mental disorders like schizophrenia using fMRI.
method Self-supervised pre-training on fMRI dynamics of healthy controls for transfer learning.
result Effective classification of schizophrenia using fMRI dynamics with small datasets.