用自然语言任务数据融合MEG和fMRI,实现毫秒级毫微米级脑活动重建。
Estimating Brain Activity with High Spatial and Temporal Resolution using a Naturalistic MEG-fMRI Encoding Model
- 构建Transformer编码模型,联合建模多主体自然语言刺激下的MEG与fMRI信号。
- 在模拟中比传统最小范数解提升空间与时间分辨率,预测性能优于单模态模型。
- 跨被试、跨模态泛化性强,对ECoG预测表现超越专为ECoG训练的模型。
现有非侵入性脑成像技术在空间与时间分辨率间存在权衡:脑磁图(MEG)可捕捉快速神经动态,功能磁共振(fMRI)可精确定位脑区活动,但统一保持高时空分辨率仍无解,尤其在单次试验的自然语言数据中。本研究收集受试者聆听超过七小时叙事故事时的全头MEG数据,并使用公开的fMRI数据集(LeBel et al., 2023)中的相同刺激。我们开发了一种基于Transformer的编码模型,结合两个自然语言理解实验中的MEG与fMRI数据,以高时空分辨率估计皮层源活动。模型通过多被试联合训练,其潜在层表示重构的皮层源响应。结果显示,该模型对MEG的预测优于单一模态编码模型,且在模拟实验中生成的源估计比经典最小范数解具有更高空间与时间保真度。我们验证了所估计源空间的强泛化能力:在全新数据集上,其预测的电皮层图(ECoG)表现优于专为ECoG训练的编码模型。通过整合大规模自然语言实验、MEG、fMRI与编码模型,本研究提出一条通往毫秒级、毫米级脑图谱的实用路径。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Current non-invasive neuroimaging techniques trade off between spatial resolution and temporal resolution. While magnetoencephalography (MEG) can capture rapid neural dynamics and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can spatially localize brain activity, a unified picture that preserves both high resolutions remains an unsolved challenge with existing source localization or MEG-fMRI fusion methods, especially for single-trial naturalistic data. We collected whole-head MEG when subjects listened passively to more than seven hours of narrative stories, using the same stimuli in an open fMRI dataset (LeBel et al., 2023). We developed a transformer-based encoding model that combines the MEG and fMRI from these two naturalistic speech comprehension experiments to estimate latent cortical source responses with high spatiotemporal resolution. Our model is trained to predict MEG and fMRI from multiple subjects simultaneously, with a latent layer that represents our estimates of reconstructed cortical sources. Our model predicts MEG better than the common standard of single-modality encoding models, and it also yields source estimates with higher spatial and temporal fidelity than classic minimum-norm solutions in simulation experiments. We validated the estimated latent sources by showing its strong generalizability across unseen subjects and modalities. Estimated activity in our source space predict electrocorticography (ECoG) better than an ECoG-trained encoding model in an entirely new dataset. By integrating the power of large naturalistic experiments, MEG, fMRI, and encoding models, we propose a practical route towards millisecond-and-millimeter brain mapping.
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