标题：
Multi-region neural representation: A novel model for decoding visual stimuli in human brains
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所属单位：
计算机科学与技术学院/人工智能学院/软件学院
发表刊物：
Proc. SIAM Int. Conf. Data Min., SDM
摘要：
Multivariate Pattern (MVP) classification holds enormous potential for decoding visual stimuli in the human brain by employing task-based fMRI data sets. There is a wide range of challenges in the MVP techniques, i.e. decreasing noise and sparsity, defining effective regions of interest (ROIs), visualizing results, and the cost of brain studies. In overcoming these challenges, this paper proposes a novel model of neural representation, which can automatically detect the active regions for each visual stimulus and then utilize these anatomical regions for visualizing and analyzing the functional activities. Therefore, this model provides an opportunity for neuroscientists to ask this question: what is the effect of a stimulus on each of the detected regions instead of just study the fluctuation of voxels in the manually selected ROIs. Moreover, our method introduces analyzing snapshots of brain image for decreasing sparsity rather than using the whole of fMRI time series. Further, a new Gaussian smoothing method is proposed for removing noise of voxels in the level of ROIs. The proposed method enables us to combine different fMRI data sets for reducing the cost of brain studies. Experimental studies on 4 visual categories (words, consonants, objects and nonsense photos) confirm that the proposed method achieves superior performance to state-of-the-art methods. Copyright © by SIAM.
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否
发表时间：
2017-01-01
合写作者：
张道强
通讯作者：
YOUSEFNEZHAD MUHAMMAD
发表时间：
2017-01-01
学位：工学博士学位
所在单位：计算机科学与技术学院/人工智能学院/软件学院