arXiv:2503. 02636v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Resting-state EEG provides a non-invasive view of spontaneous brain activity, but extracting meaningful patterns is often limited by scarce high-quality data and reliance on manually engineered features.
By Yeganeh Farahzadi, Morteza Ansarinia, Zoltan Kekecs
arXiv:2607. 21402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised foundation models have recently shown strong potential for electroencephalogram (EEG)-based analysis.
By Tao Zhou, Jing Han, Lingyu Shu, Zixing Zhang
This survey reviews recent advances in converting non‑invasive EEG signals into images, text, and audio using generative AI techniques such as GANs, VAEs, transformers, and diffusion models. It summarizes datasets, feature‑encoding methods, evaluation metrics, and key challenges, noting that EEG‑to‑image models mainly use encoder‑decoder architectures, EEG‑to‑text leverages transformer language models, and EEG‑to‑audio maps signals to mel‑spectrograms for vocoder synthesis. The paper highlights the limitations of small, heterogeneous datasets, poor cross‑subject generalization, and the lack of standardized benchmarks, while providing open‑source resources to support reproducible research.
By Shreya Shukla, Jose Torres, Akshaj Murhekar, Christina Liu, Abhijit Mishra, Jacek Gwizdka, Shounak Roychowdhury
arXiv:2608. 11656v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in EEG foundation models have demonstrated the potential of large-scale pretraining to enable generalizable neural decoding across subjects, recording environments, and datasets.
By Myeong-Ju Cho, Hye-Bin Shin, Seo-Hyun Lee, Seong-Whan Lee
arXiv:2607. 09543v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised pretrained foundation models (FM) have shown early promise for non-invasive electroencephalogram (EEG) decoding applications.
By Gabriel Mahuas, Victoria Shevchenko, Ugo Tanielian, Yassir Bendou, Richard Gao
arXiv:2607. 11578v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning for EEG-based seizure detection faces critical challenges: severe annotation scarcity and extreme class imbalance, where ictal events comprise less than 10\% of clinical recordings.
By Abdulkader Helwan, Lina Abou-Abbas, Hussein El Amouri, Belkacem Chikhaoui, Khadidja Henni
arXiv:2607.11578v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Deep learning for EEG-based seizure detection faces critical challenges: severe annotation scarcity and extreme class imbalance, where ictal...
By Abdulkader Helwan, Lina Abou-Abbas, Hussein El Amouri, Belkacem Chikhaoui, Khadidja Henni
arXiv:2608. 01898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Increasing EEG pretraining data scale or model capacity does not consistently improve downstream performance.
By Junjie Yu, Zihan Deng, Jianyu Zhang, Junrong Mu, Jiahui An, Wenxiao Ma, Ziling Lu, Yue Wang, Yan Zhu, Kexin Lou, Quanying Liu
BrainPro is a process‑conditioned self‑supervised pretraining framework for large EEG models that addresses two underexplored challenges: the underuse of mental‑process cues in masked pretraining and the variability of electrode montages across datasets. It maps dataset‑specific montages to a universal channel‑region template, retrieves spatial filters to create a topographically aligned basis, and learns a shared encoder along with process‑specific branches conditioned on protocol cues. Experiments on nine public BCI benchmarks show that BrainPro outperforms baselines, with ablations indicating that topographic retrieval and process‑conditioned representation learning jointly enhance EEG decoding.
By Yi Ding, Muyun Jiang, Weibang Jiang, Shuailei Zhang, Xinliang Zhou, Chenyu Liu, Shanglin Li, Yong Li, Cuntai Guan
BrainCodes is a lightweight EEG foundation model that uses a quantization-based neural tokenizer and a spatiotemporal encoder to learn transferable EEG features from over 800 hours of data across more than 1,000 participants. The model is pretrained with a self‑supervised objective that encourages spatial connectivity and sensitivity to narrowband neural oscillations, enabling it to match or surpass state‑of‑the‑art performance on tasks such as sleep staging, attention assessment, and cognitive load estimation. It achieves these results while using up to 97% fewer trainable parameters, making it suitable for low‑resource wearable devices, and its evaluation framework analyzes the geometry and invariances of the learned representations.
By Kleanthis Avramidis, Ivan Tashev, Dimitra Emmanouilidou
The paper introduces BraVista, a visual-language framework that transforms multichannel EEG signals into structured images and uses instruction‑conditioned vision‑language models for unified multi‑task EEG decoding. By continuing post‑training of a general‑domain VLM, BraVista adapts to neural signals without large‑scale EEG‑specific pretraining, achieving strong performance across sleep staging, emotion recognition, cognitive workload classification, and abnormal EEG detection. Analyses show that the EEG‑to‑image representation is crucial and that the model’s performance degrades gradually with added noise, indicating reliance on genuine EEG information.
By Parastoo Azizeddin, Omid Sharafi, Maryam M. Shanechi
arXiv:2509. 17920v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current deep learning models for electroencephalography (EEG) are often task-specific and depend on large labeled datasets, limiting their adaptability.
By Jamiyan Sukhbaatar, Satoshi Imamura, Ibuki Inoue, Shoya Murakami, Kazi Mahmudul Hassan, Seungwoo Han, Ingon Chanpornpakdi, Toshihisa Tanaka