实时融合多尺度神经信号,处理采样率差异与数据缺失问题。
Dynamical modeling of nonlinear latent factors in multiscale neural activity with real-time inference
- 设计多尺度编码器,动态整合不同采样率和分布的神经信号。
- 在三个真实脑数据集上,实现更精准的实时目标解码性能。
- 适合需要高精度实时神经信号分析的研究者使用。
从多种同步记录的神经时间序列模态(如离散尖峰活动和连续场电位)中实现实时解码,在多个神经科学应用中至关重要。然而,主要挑战在于不同神经模态具有不同时间尺度(即采样率)、不同概率分布,甚至在某些时间步可能缺失。现有非线性多模态神经活动模型无法处理跨模态的时间尺度差异或缺失样本,且部分模型不支持实时解码。本文提出一种学习框架,可在实时递归解码的同时,非线性聚合来自不同时间尺度、分布各异且存在缺失样本的多模态信息。该框架包含:1)多尺度编码器,通过学习模态内动态以实时处理时间尺度差异和缺失样本;2)多尺度动力学主干,提取多模态时间动态并支持实时递归解码;3)模态特定解码器,适应各模态的概率分布差异。在仿真及三个不同的多尺度脑数据集上,结果表明该模型能有效融合异构模态信息,显著提升实时目标解码性能,优于多种线性和非线性多模态基准模型。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Real-time decoding of target variables from multiple simultaneously recorded neural time-series modalities, such as discrete spiking activity and continuous field potentials, is important across various neuroscience applications. However, a major challenge for doing so is that different neural modalities can have different timescales (i.e., sampling rates) and different probabilistic distributions, or can even be missing at some time-steps. Existing nonlinear models of multimodal neural activity do not address different timescales or missing samples across modalities. Further, some of these models do not allow for real-time decoding. Here, we develop a learning framework that can enable real-time recursive decoding while nonlinearly aggregating information across multiple modalities with different timescales and distributions and with missing samples. This framework consists of 1) a multiscale encoder that nonlinearly aggregates information after learning within-modality dynamics to handle different timescales and missing samples in real time, 2) a multiscale dynamical backbone that extracts multimodal temporal dynamics and enables real-time recursive decoding, and 3) modality-specific decoders to account for different probabilistic distributions across modalities. In both simulations and three distinct multiscale brain datasets, we show that our model can aggregate information across modalities with different timescales and distributions and missing samples to improve real-time target decoding. Further, our method outperforms various linear and nonlinear multimodal benchmarks in doing so.
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