Informatics and Applications
2026, Volume 20, Issue 2, pp 35-49
DECODING VISUAL INFORMATION FROM NEURAL SIGNALS: IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION BASED ON JOINT FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AND ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY ANALYSIS
- D. D. Dorin
- N. S. Kiselev
- A. V. Grabovoy
Abstract
Reconstructing visual stimuli from neural signals is a fundamental challenge in neurodecoding, lying at the intersection of computational neuroscience and modern machine learning. Despite recent advances achieved using contrastive representations and diffusion-based generative models, most existing approaches are limited to a single neuroimaging modality - either functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with high spatial resolution, or electroencephalography (EEG) with high temporal resolution. The integration of both modalities remains a largely unexplored area. In this work, a multimodal architecture is proposed that jointly processes fMRI and EEG signals to reconstruct visual stimuli. Brain activity embeddings are trained contrastively to align with CLIP image embeddings. The proposed two-stage generation pipeline comprises synthesis of an intermediate latent representation via a prior model trained onjoint fMRI-EEG vectors, followed by decoding this representation using a pretrained diffusion model conditioned on CLIP embeddings. Experiments on a publicly available multimodal dataset demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed architecture for neural decoding. Quantitatively, the multimodal model surpasses unimodal baselines in terms of CLIP-Score, underscoring the importance of jointly leveraging fMRI and EEG signals for accurate visual stimulus reconstruction.
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Title
DECODING VISUAL INFORMATION FROM NEURAL SIGNALS: IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION BASED ON JOINT FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AND ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY ANALYSIS
Journal
Informatics and Applications
2026, Volume 20, Issue 2, pp 35-49
Cover Date
2026-10-07
DOI
10.14357/19922264260203
Print ISSN
1992-2264
Publisher
Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences
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Key words
visual stimulus decoding; fMRI-EEG; contrastive learning; diffusion models; image reconstruction
Authors
D. D. Dorin  , N. S. Kiselev  , and A. V. Grabovoy  ,
Author Affiliations
 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University), 9 Institutskiy Per., Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region 141701, Russian Federation
 V.A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 65 Profsoyuznaya Str., Moscow 117997, Russian Federation
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