arXiv:2609.36609v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) analysis requires careful choices in preprocessing, statistical modeling, and machine learning because EEG signals are h...
By Parsa Razmara, Woojae Jeong, Aditya Kommineni, Raymundo Cassani, Richard Leahy, Takfarinas Medani
NeuroAtlas is the largest EEG benchmark to date, comprising 42 datasets and 260,000 hours of clinical EEG data across epilepsy, sleep medicine, brain age estimation, and brain‑computer interfaces. The study evaluates foundation models (FMs) for EEG against supervised baselines and generic time‑series FMs, finding that EEG‑specific FMs do not consistently outperform generic ones. It also demonstrates that standard machine‑learning metrics are inadequate for clinical relevance, advocating for task‑specific measures such as event‑level decision quality, hypnogram features, and brain‑age gap.
By Konstantinos Kontras, Trui Osselaer, Stylianos G. Mouslech, Angeliki-Ilektra Karaiskou, Guido Gagliardi, Thomas Strypsteen, Mohammad Hossein Badiei, Anku Rani, Maarten Vanmarcke, Miguel Bhagubai, Chanakya Ekbote, Jaedong Hwang, Christos Chatzichristos, Paul Pu Liang, Maarten De Vos
EEG-Xplain introduces a unified attribution framework to interpret EEG foundation models such as BIOT, LaBraM, and EEGMamba. The framework combines gradient, perturbation, and activation-based methods to analyze model behavior across spatial, temporal, and frequency dimensions, identifying critical channels, decision-relevant signal segments, and contributions of canonical EEG rhythms. It evaluates explanation reliability with population-level metrics and uses large language models to convert structured attributions into natural-language reports, demonstrating consistency with known neurophysiological markers on benchmark datasets.
By Hansong Ma, Junxiao Wang
EEG-HealthLLM introduces a hierarchical adaptation framework that unifies heterogeneous EEG health assessments using large language models. Task‑specific EEG adapters preserve unique spatio‑temporal dynamics, while a shared LoRA module in the LLM backbone captures common high‑level assessment semantics. The new EEG‑HealthBench benchmark reorganizes five EEG datasets into five health‑assessment tasks, and experiments show EEG‑HealthLLM achieves the highest average balanced accuracy and macro‑F1, improving performance while reducing adapter size by 80%.
By Ruidong Ma, Jisheng Dang, Ronghao Lin, Bimei Wang, Jingwen Zhao, Wenjun Ma, Wei-Shi Zheng, Meng Wang, Qi Tian, Tat-Seng Chua
arXiv:2606. 02939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interpretable brain-computer interface classifiers that generalize across subjects without calibration remain an open challenge.
By Charlotte Genevier Wyman, Leanne Hirshfield
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