Reconstructing observed images from fMRI brain recordings is challenging. Unfortunately, acquiring sufficient "labeled" pairs of {Image, fMRI} (i.e., images with their corresponding fMRI responses) to span the huge space of natural images is prohibitive for many reasons. We present a novel approach which, in addition t…
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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.
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…
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…
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.
Machine learning techniques have gained prominence for the analysis of resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (rs-fMRI) data. Here, we present an overview of various unsupervised and supervised machine learning applications to rs-fMRI. We present a methodical taxonomy of machine learning methods in resting…
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.
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.
Extracting information from functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) images has been a major area of research for more than two decades. The goal of this work is to present a new method for the analysis of fMRI data sets, that is capable to incorporate a priori available information, via an efficient optimization framework…
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.
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.
Study adapts -TCVAE for fMRI to recover nonlinear brain components.
problem Capturing nonlinear brain dynamics in fMRI data.
method Adapted -TCVAE framework for fMRI data.
result Recovery of meaningful nonlinear spatial components in fMRI data.
Resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) scans hold the potential to serve as a diagnostic or prognostic tool for a wide variety of conditions, such as autism, Alzheimer's disease, and stroke. While a growing number of studies have demonstrated the promise of machine learning algorithms for rs-fMRI based clinical or beha…
A Hierarchical Graphical Model for Big Inverse Covariance Estimation with an Application to fMRIstat.ME
Brain networks has attracted the interests of many neuroscientists. From functional MRI (fMRI) data, statistical tools have been developed to recover brain networks. However, the dimensionality of whole-brain fMRI, usually in hundreds of thousands, challenges the applicability of these methods. We develop a hierarchica…
Resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) is a rich imaging modality that captures spontaneous brain activity patterns, revealing clues about the connectomic organization of the human brain. While many rs-fMRI studies have focused on static measures of functional connectivity, there has been a recent surge in examining th…
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.
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.
Proposes a method to cluster fMRI data and estimate brain connectivity networks.
problem Clustering fMRI data to identify patient groups based on brain connectivity.
method Random covariance clustering model (RCCM) to cluster subjects and estimate individual and shared FC networks.
result RCCM outperforms other methods in clustering and FC network estimation, demonstrated through simulations and real data.
Framework predicts clinical severity from rs-fMRI data using network optimization.
problem Predicting clinical severity from rs-fMRI data.
method Joint network optimization framework combining sparse subnetworks and linear regression.
result Framework outperforms standard methods and identifies clinically relevant ASD networks.
The application of deep learning (DL) models to the decoding of cognitive states from whole-brain functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data is often hindered by the small sample size and high dimensionality of these datasets. Especially, in clinical settings, where patient data are scarce. In this work, we demo…
Noise-cleaning the precision matrix of fMRI time seriescond-mat.stat-mech
Noise-cleaning fMRI brain activity matrices for better precision estimation.
problem Denoise precision matrices of fMRI time series to estimate true matrices.
method Comparison of various noise-cleaning algorithms on synthetic and real fMRI data.
result Optimal Rotationally Invariant Estimator outperforms others in fMRI data.
Understanding human fetal neurodevelopment is of great clinical importance as abnormal development is linked to adverse neuropsychiatric outcomes after birth. Recent advances in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) have provided new insight into development of the human brain before birth, but these studies hav…
The application of deep learning (DL) models to neuroimaging data poses several challenges, due to the high dimensionality, low sample size and complex temporo-spatial dependency structure of these datasets. Even further, DL models act as as black-box models, impeding insight into the association of cognitive state and…
Background: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) provides non-invasive measures of neuronal activity using an endogenous Blood Oxygenation-Level Dependent (BOLD) contrast. This article introduces a nonlinear dimensionality reduction (Locally Linear Embedding) to extract informative measures of the underlying ne…
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 networks (GNN) rely on graph operations that include neural network training for various graph related tasks. Recently, several attempts have been made to apply the GNNs to functional magnetic resonance image (fMRI) data. Despite recent progresses, a common limitation is its difficulty to explain the class…
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…
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) were designed for dealing with time-series data and have recently been used for creating predictive models from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. However, gathering large fMRI datasets for learning is a difficult task. Furthermore, network interpretability is unclear. T…
A new method clusters subjects based on brain networks without vectorizing fMRI data.
problem Distortion of clustering results when simplifying fMRI data structure.
method Wishart mixture models for multiple-view clustering of brain networks.
result Identifies multiple underlying pairs of associations between subject clusters and brain sub-networks.
The growing use of neuroimaging technologies generates a massive amount of biomedical data that exhibit high dimensionality. Tensor-based analysis of brain imaging data has been proved quite effective in exploiting their multiway nature. The advantages of tensorial methods over matrix-based approaches have also been de…
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.
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, …
Study finds fMRI can predict suicidal ideation, but analysis questions results.
problem Predicting suicidal ideation using fMRI data.
method Naive Bayes classifier trained on fMRI responses to words related to mortality.
result Classification accuracy of 91% for predicting suicidal ideation, but analysis calls into question the accuracy of the findings.
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…
Variation Autoencoder (VAE) has become a powerful tool in modeling the non-linear generative process of data from a low-dimensional latent space. Recently, several studies have proposed to use VAE for unsupervised clustering by using mixture models to capture the multi-modal structure of latent representations. This st…
Over the last twenty five years, advances in the collection and analysis of fMRI data have enabled new insights into the brain basis of human health and disease. Individual behavioral variation can now be visualized at a neural level as patterns of connectivity among brain regions. Functional brain imaging is enhancing…
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…
We propose a novel two-phase approach to functional network estimation of multi-subject functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data, which applies model-based image segmentation to determine a group-representative connectivity map. In our approach, we first improve clustering-based Independent Component Analysis …
Bayesian model detects altered neural circuits in MCI patients.
problem Detecting altered neural circuits in Mild Cognitive Impairment patients.
method Hierarchical Bayesian recurrent state space model.
result Model discovers latent states predominantly observed in MCI patients.
The study of healthy brain development helps to better understand the brain transformation and brain connectivity patterns which happen during childhood to adulthood. This study presents a sparse machine learning solution across whole-brain functional connectivity (FC) measures of three sets of data, derived from resti…
New method for fMRI missing value imputation improves robustness.
problem High frequency of missing values in fMRI data.
method Spatial and time-dependent regularization with a novel recurrent layer.
result Improved robustness against state-of-the-art alternatives.
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.
As a mental disorder progresses, it may affect brain structure, but brain function expressed in brain dynamics is affected much earlier. Capturing the moment when brain dynamics express the disorder is crucial for early diagnosis. The traditional approach to this problem via training classifiers either proceeds from ha…
Fine-grained atlases improve fMRI analysis of brain activity.
problem Large fMRI datasets require scalable brain network summaries.
method Trained on millions of fMRI volumes, DiFuMo dictionaries of 64-1024 networks.
result Fine-grained atlases enhance classic fMRI analysis pipelines.
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.
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.
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.
The application of deep learning to build accurate predictive models from functional neuroimaging data is often hindered by limited dataset sizes. Though data augmentation can help mitigate such training obstacles, most data augmentation methods have been developed for natural images as in computer vision tasks such as…