Improves MRI-based brain surface reconstruction with minimal deformation energy loss.
problem Ensuring optimal deformation energy and consistency in learning-based cortical surface reconstruction.
method Design and implementation of a Minimal Energy Deformation (MED) loss in the V2C-Flow model.
result Significant improvements in training consistency and reproducibility without sacrificing reconstruction accuracy and topological correctness.
Neural network predicts intelligence from brain structure measurements.
problem Predicting intelligence scores from brain structure measurements.
method Four-layer fully-connected neural network (FNN) using volumes, WM/GM contrast, and cortical thickness.
result Achieved MSE of 94.0270 in test set.
Paper proposes a method to compare vector fields across surfaces, useful for analyzing brain folding patterns.
problem Comparing vector fields across surfaces of different geometries is challenging.
method The paper introduces a framework to transport vector fields onto a common space using differential geometry.
result The proposed framework enables the computation of statistics on vector fields, demonstrating its effectiveness in analyzing brain folding patterns.
DIVE models brain disease progression with high spatial resolution.
problem Reconstruct long-term brain pathology from short-term data.
method Clusters vertex-wise biomarker measurements, estimates average trajectories, and identifies disease-specific patterns.
result Reveals distinct patterns of pathology in different diseases and biomarker types.
Cortical circuits exhibit intricate recurrent architectures that are remarkably similar across different brain areas. Such stereotyped structure suggests the existence of common computational principles. However, such principles have remained largely elusive. Inspired by gated-memory networks, namely long short-term me…
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…
Paper proposes a new method for population-wise matching of sulcal graphs.
problem Challenges in matching cortical fold variations across individuals.
method Population-wise multi-graph matching of sulcal graphs.
result Effectiveness of multi-graph matching in obtaining consistent labeling of sulcal basins.
Biological neural network mimics CCA for multi-channel data.
problem Implementing CCA in a biologically plausible neural network.
method Derive an online CCA algorithm with local synaptic updates for multi-compartmental neurons.
result The derived neural network architecture and synaptic updates resemble cortical pyramidal neuron behavior.
Automated detection of MS lesions improves to 67% with 7T MRI.
problem Accurate detection of small, scarce cortical lesions in MS patients.
method 3D U-Net with brain tissue segmentation, supervised training on 7T MRI.
result 67% lesion detection rate with 42% false positives.
The functional significance of resting state networks and their abnormal manifestations in psychiatric disorders are firmly established, as is the importance of the cortical rhythms in mediating these networks. Resting state networks are known to undergo substantial reorganization from childhood to adulthood, but wheth…
A new image completion method inspired by brain cells.
problem Image restoration from corrupted data.
method Biologically-inspired sub-Riemannian model with frequency and phase.
result Completion of two-dimensional images using cortical cell responses.
Neural networks learn to mimic brain neurons with two-input activation functions, improving performance and robustness.
problem Training neural networks to mimic the complex interactions of brain neurons.
method Developed a network-in-network architecture with two-input activation functions, optimized hyperparameters, and compared to conventional ReLU networks.
result Two-input activation functions can learn soft XOR functions, improving network performance and robustness.
The paper develops models to understand sensory coding and cortical topography.
problem Understanding how visual cortical areas' receptive fields and topographic maps relate to environmental statistical structure.
method Energy-based models applied to probability density estimation, constrained by biological constraints.
result The models qualitatively reproduce receptive field and map properties found in vivo.
This work optimizes reservoir computing models by linking recurrence and non-linear dynamics.
problem Understanding how recurrence and non-linear dynamics in cortical networks contribute to their function.
method Transformed time-continuous, recurrent dynamics into an effective feed-forward structure of linear and non-linear temporal kernels.
result Optimal time-series classifiers can be built from random reservoir networks, demonstrating significant performance gains.
We propose that the Continual Learning desiderata can be achieved through a neuro-inspired architecture, grounded on Mountcastle's cortical column hypothesis. The proposed architecture involves a single module, called Self-Taught Associative Memory (STAM), which models the function of a cortical column. STAMs are repea…
V1 cortex reconstructs images as Poisson equation solutions with varying weights.
problem Reconstructing images from V1 cortical cell receptive profiles.
method Solves a heterogeneous Poisson equation with varying weights representing neural connectivity.
result Reconstructions converge to homogeneous solutions using homogenization techniques.
New method aligns brain data across individuals for better brain decoding.
problem Inter-individual variability in brain response patterns limits decoder generalization.
method SpectralOT method that embeds cortical geometry into Laplace-Beltrami eigenmodes.
result SpectralOT strikes balance between aligning functional features and preserving anatomical structure.
The visual systems of many mammals, including humans, is able to integrate the geometric information of visual stimuli and to perform cognitive tasks already at the first stages of the cortical processing. This is thought to be the result of a combination of mechanisms, which include feature extraction at single cell l…
Gaudy images help train deep neural networks with less data.
problem Training deep neural networks with limited real data from visual cortex neurons.
method Used high-contrast binarized natural images (gaudy images) to train DNNs.
result Reduced training data needed for accurate DNN predictions of visual cortex neuron responses.
Despite its size and complexity, the human cortex exhibits striking anatomical regularities, suggesting there may simple meta-algorithms underlying cortical learning and computation. We expect such meta-algorithms to be of interest since they need to operate quickly, scalably and effectively with little-to-no specializ…
New model explains visual illusions using sub-Riemannian geometry.
problem Mathematical modeling of Poggendorff-type visual illusions.
method Cortical-inspired sub-Riemannian model with sub-Laplacian evolution.
result Sub-Riemannian kernel enhances visual misperceptions and biases.
DKT transfers biomarker information between neurodegenerative diseases.
problem Estimating biomarker trajectories in rare neurodegenerative diseases with limited data.
method DKT is a joint-disease generative model that transfers biomarker progressions from common neurodegenerative diseases to rare ones.
result DKT estimates plausible multimodal biomarker trajectories in rare diseases like PCA using only unimodal data.
Machine learning for ASD diagnosis using morphological MRI networks.
problem Challenging to diagnose ASD using MRI due to heterogeneity and incomplete network neuroscience.
method Crowdsourced Kaggle competition to develop and benchmark ML pipelines.
result First-ranked team achieved 70% accuracy, 72.5% sensitivity, and 67.5% specificity.
Neurons in higher cortical areas, such as the prefrontal cortex, are known to be tuned to a variety of sensory and motor variables. The resulting diversity of neural tuning often obscures the represented information. Here we introduce a novel dimensionality reduction technique, demixed principal component analysis (dPC…
Model explains optical illusions using geometric sub-Riemannian geodesics.
problem Understanding and explaining geometrical optical illusions.
method Neuro-mathematical model based on sub-Riemannian geodesics in the Roto-Translation Group.
result Illusory contours are described as geodesics in a new metric.
New method aligns brain surfaces based on functional signatures.
problem Inter-individual variability in neuroimaging data.
method Fused Unbalanced Gromov-Wasserstein (FUGW) based on Optimal Transport.
result FUGW significantly increases between-subject correlation of activity.
We introduce a mixed-effects model to learn spatiotempo-ral patterns on a network by considering longitudinal measures distributed on a fixed graph. The data come from repeated observations of subjects at different time points which take the form of measurement maps distributed on a graph such as an image or a mesh. Th…
VNNs transfer well across datasets for brain age prediction using cortical thickness features.
problem Predicting brain age using anatomical features.
method Transferability of coVariance neural networks (VNNs) in brain age prediction.
result VNNs can assign anatomical interpretability to elevated brain age gap in AD.
The paper relaxes constraints on predictive coding models, making them more biologically plausible.
problem Neurophysiological models of predictive coding are not fully biologically plausible.
method The paper relaxes constraints on standard predictive coding algorithms by removing neurally implausible features.
result The removal of neurally implausible features does not significantly affect learning performance.
Causal inference concerns the identification of cause-effect relationships between variables, e.g. establishing whether a stimulus affects activity in a certain brain region. The observed variables themselves often do not constitute meaningful causal variables, however, and linear combinations need to be considered. In…
Deep learning has recently led to great successes in tasks such as image recognition (e.g Krizhevsky et al., 2012). However, deep networks are still outmatched by the power and versatility of the brain, perhaps in part due to the richer neuronal computations available to cortical circuits. The challenge is to identify …
The elastic net was introduced as a heuristic algorithm for combinatorial optimisation and has been applied, among other problems, to biological modelling. It has an energy function which trades off a fitness term against a tension term. In the original formulation of the algorithm the tension term was implicitly based…
Paper revisits graph-CNNs using Laplace-Beltrami spectral filters and polynomials.
problem Improving spectral graph convolutional neural networks (graph-CNNs).
method Developed Laplace-Beltrami CNN (LB-CNN) by replacing graph Laplacian with LB operator and approximating spectral filters using Chebyshev, Laguerre, and Hermite polynomials.
result Classification accuracy of LB-CNN is not dependent on the type of polynomials or operators.
We propose a primitive called PJOIN, for "predictive join," which combines and extends the operations JOIN and LINK, which Valiant proposed as the basis of a computational theory of cortex. We show that PJOIN can be implemented in Valiant's model. We also show that, using PJOIN, certain reasonably complex learning and …
Neurons in cortical circuits exhibit coordinated spiking activity, and can produce correlated synchronous spikes during behavior and cognition. We recently developed a method for estimating the dynamics of correlated ensemble activity by combining a model of simultaneous neuronal interactions (e.g., a spin-glass model)…
New VAE models reveal hierarchical visual cortex computations.
problem Capturing hierarchical visual cortex computations in generative models.
method Sparse coding hierarchical VAEs trained on natural images with varied generative and recognition components.
result Representations similar to those in visual cortex emerge under inductive biases.
Study identifies five AD subtypes using graph diffusion and similarity learning.
problem Identifying homogeneous AD subtypes to improve diagnosis and treatment.
method Unsupervised clustering with graph diffusion and similarity learning.
result Five distinct AD subtypes identified with significant differences in biomarkers and clinical features.
Brain2Char decodes text from brain recordings, achieving state-of-the-art performance.
problem Directly decoding text from brain recordings for communication.
method Combines 3D Inception layers, bidirectional recurrent layers, and language model weighted beam search. Uses CTC loss and auxiliary losses for regularization.
result Achieves 10.6%, 8.5%, and 7.0% WER on vocabulary sizes from 1200 to 1900 words.
A new model uses 'ghost units' to enable efficient backpropagation in deep neural networks.
problem How to achieve efficient backpropagation in deep neural networks with biological plausibility.
method Introduces 'ghost units' to cancel feedback, enabling efficient error backpropagation.
result Demonstrates that the model can approximate error gradients and achieve good performance on classification tasks.
Study on deep and wide echo state networks for forecasting complex time series.
problem Performance analysis of deep reservoir computing models.
method Investigates the impact of partitioning neurons and parallel pathways on forecasting accuracy.
result Wide and deep networks outperform shallow models in forecasting multiscale spatiotemporal data.
Learning and inferring features that generate sensory input is a task continuously performed by cortex. In recent years, novel algorithms and learning rules have been proposed that allow neural network models to learn such features from natural images, written text, audio signals, etc. These networks usually involve de…
Path signatures reveal community structure in coupled oscillators' dynamics.
problem Detecting communities in multivariate dynamical processes from time series data.
method Path signatures, a mathematical framework encoding geometric and temporal properties of continuous paths.
result Achieved exact recovery of structural communities from observed time series in multiple KSBM instances.
The paper uses geometric methods to classify medical data histograms.
problem Classifying medical data histograms for disease diagnosis.
method Information geometry of beta distributions for comparing and classifying histograms.
result Geometric tools, particularly negatively curved Fisher information, enable unique mean calculation and K-means classification.
The paper extends the functional geometry of the visual cortex to more complex architectures using contactization and symplectization.
problem Understanding the functional architecture of the visual cortex.
method Contactization and symplectization processes to extend the dimension of the space.
result Extension of the functional geometry of the visual cortex to more complex architectures.
Adds a precortical module to CNNs for improved robustness to light variations.
problem Robustness of CNNs to global light intensity and contrast variations.
method Developed a mathematical model of the mammalian visual pathway, inspired by CNNs, and added a preliminary convolutional module.
result Significantly more robust CNNs achieved with added module on MNIST, FashionMNIST, and SVHN databases.
Neural signals are characterized by rich temporal and spatiotemporal dynamics that reflect the organization of cortical networks. Theoretical research has shown how neural networks can operate at different dynamic ranges that correspond to specific types of information processing. Here we present a data analysis framew…
Causal inference concerns the identification of cause-effect relationships between variables. However, often only linear combinations of variables constitute meaningful causal variables. For example, recovering the signal of a cortical source from electroencephalography requires a well-tuned combination of signals reco…
Neurons in the visual cortex are correlated in their variability. The presence of correlation impacts cortical processing because noise cannot be averaged out over many neurons. In an effort to understand the functional purpose of correlated variability, we implement and evaluate correlated noise models in deep convolu…