Functional embeddings enable Aggregation of multi-area SEEG recordings over subjects and sessions

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Main Authors: Javadzadeh, Sina, Soroushmojdehi, Rahil, Mousavi, S. Alireza Seyyed, Asadi, Mehrnaz, Abe, Sumiko, Sanger, Terence D.
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author Javadzadeh, Sina
Soroushmojdehi, Rahil
Mousavi, S. Alireza Seyyed
Asadi, Mehrnaz
Abe, Sumiko
Sanger, Terence D.
author_facet Javadzadeh, Sina
Soroushmojdehi, Rahil
Mousavi, S. Alireza Seyyed
Asadi, Mehrnaz
Abe, Sumiko
Sanger, Terence D.
contents Aggregating intracranial recordings across subjects is challenging since electrode count, placement, and covered regions vary widely. Spatial normalization methods like MNI coordinates offer a shared anatomical reference, but often fail to capture true functional similarity, particularly when localization is imprecise; even at matched anatomical coordinates, the targeted brain region and underlying neural dynamics can differ substantially between individuals. We propose a scalable representation-learning framework that (i) learns a subject-agnostic functional identity for each electrode from multi-region local field potentials using a Siamese encoder with contrastive objectives, inducing an embedding geometry that is locality-sensitive to region-specific neural signatures, and (ii) tokenizes these embeddings for a transformer that models inter-regional relationships with a variable number of channels. We evaluate this framework on a 20-subject dataset spanning basal ganglia-thalamic regions collected during flexible rest/movement recording sessions with heterogeneous electrode layouts. The learned functional space supports accurate within-subject discrimination and forms clear, region-consistent clusters; it transfers zero-shot to unseen channels. The transformer, operating on functional tokens without subject-specific heads or supervision, captures cross-region dependencies and enables reconstruction of masked channels, providing a subject-agnostic backbone for downstream decoding. Together, these results indicate a path toward large-scale, cross-subject aggregation and pretraining for intracranial neural data where strict task structure and uniform sensor placement are unavailable.
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spellingShingle Functional embeddings enable Aggregation of multi-area SEEG recordings over subjects and sessions
Javadzadeh, Sina
Soroushmojdehi, Rahil
Mousavi, S. Alireza Seyyed
Asadi, Mehrnaz
Abe, Sumiko
Sanger, Terence D.
Machine Learning
Signal Processing
Aggregating intracranial recordings across subjects is challenging since electrode count, placement, and covered regions vary widely. Spatial normalization methods like MNI coordinates offer a shared anatomical reference, but often fail to capture true functional similarity, particularly when localization is imprecise; even at matched anatomical coordinates, the targeted brain region and underlying neural dynamics can differ substantially between individuals. We propose a scalable representation-learning framework that (i) learns a subject-agnostic functional identity for each electrode from multi-region local field potentials using a Siamese encoder with contrastive objectives, inducing an embedding geometry that is locality-sensitive to region-specific neural signatures, and (ii) tokenizes these embeddings for a transformer that models inter-regional relationships with a variable number of channels. We evaluate this framework on a 20-subject dataset spanning basal ganglia-thalamic regions collected during flexible rest/movement recording sessions with heterogeneous electrode layouts. The learned functional space supports accurate within-subject discrimination and forms clear, region-consistent clusters; it transfers zero-shot to unseen channels. The transformer, operating on functional tokens without subject-specific heads or supervision, captures cross-region dependencies and enables reconstruction of masked channels, providing a subject-agnostic backbone for downstream decoding. Together, these results indicate a path toward large-scale, cross-subject aggregation and pretraining for intracranial neural data where strict task structure and uniform sensor placement are unavailable.
title Functional embeddings enable Aggregation of multi-area SEEG recordings over subjects and sessions
topic Machine Learning
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.27090