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Machine Learning for Neural Decoding.

Joshua I Glaser, Ari S Benjamin, Raeed H Chowdhury, Matthew G Perich, Lee E Miller, Konrad P Kording

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3 · Its place in the literature

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139 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Joshua I GlaserInterdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611 joshglaser88@gmail.com.
Ari S BenjaminDepartment of Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.
Raeed H ChowdhuryDepartment of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611.
Matthew G PerichDepartment of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611.ORCID 0000-0001-9800-2386
Lee E MillerDepartment of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611.ORCID 0000-0001-8675-7140
Konrad P KordingDepartment of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite rapid advances in machine learning tools, the majority of neural decoding approaches still use traditional methods. Modern machine learning tools, which are versatile and easy to use, have the potential to significantly improve decoding performance. This tutorial describes how to effectively apply these algorithms for typical decoding problems. We provide descriptions, best practices, and code for applying common machine learning methods, including neural networks and gradient boosting. We also provide detailed comparisons of the performance of various methods at the task of decoding spiking activity in motor cortex, somatosensory cortex, and hippocampus. Modern methods, particularly neural networks and ensembles, significantly outperform traditional approaches, such as Wiener and Kalman filters. Improving the performance of neural decoding algorithms allows neuroscientists to better understand the information contained in a neural population and can help to advance engineering applications such as brain-machine interfaces. Our code package is available at github.com/kordinglab/neural_decoding.

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Brain-Computer InterfacesMotor CortexAlgorithmsMachine LearningNeural Networks, ComputerDeep learningHippocampusMachine learningMotor cortexNeural data analysisNeural decodingSomatosensory cortex

Identifiers

PMID32737181
PMCPMC7470933

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