Reconstructing Flash-Evoked Potentials in the Human Brain and Tracking Cortical Activity Using Spatiotemporal Filtering: Numerical Simulation Study
Abstract
Electroencephalographic source reconstruction of visual evoked activity is challenging because distributed, temporally evolving, and overlapping cortical sources generate scalp potentials. We present a controlled simulation framework for flash visual evoked potentials (FVEPs) based on a coupled Jansen--Rit neural mass network and a realistic finite-element EEG forward model. The framework generates a sequential activation pattern across early visual, parietal, and frontal regions and enables direct comparison of reconstructed activity with known ground truth. Standardized Kalman filtering (SKF), change-rate SKF (CrSKF), conventional Kalman filtering (KF), and linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV) beamforming are compared using parcel-wise time courses, temporal lags, and assessments of spatial focality and Earth Mover's Distance. In the inverse comparison, SKF and CrSKF preserve the principal temporal progression more consistently than KF and LCMV, while CrSKF produces smoother temporal estimates. The results also demonstrate parcel-wise leakage and reduced separation of closely spaced components, emphasizing the need to interpret temporal ordering together with spatial reconstruction quality. The proposed framework provides a reproducible test environment for evaluating dynamic EEG inverse methods under controlled noise conditions.
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BibTeX
@misc{tao2026reconstructing,
title = {{Reconstructing Flash-Evoked Potentials in the Human Brain and Tracking Cortical Activity Using Spatiotemporal Filtering: Numerical Simulation Study}},
author = {Qiong Tao and Joonas Lahtinen and Sampsa Pursiainen},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2611.12366},
eprint = {2611.12366},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.12366},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Reconstructing Flash-Evoked Potentials in the Human Brain and Tracking Cortical Activity Using Spatiotemporal Filtering: Numerical Simulation Study
AU - Qiong Tao
AU - Joonas Lahtinen
AU - Sampsa Pursiainen
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/11/09
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2611.12366
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.12366
AB - Electroencephalographic source reconstruction of visual evoked activity is challenging because distributed, temporally evolving, and overlapping cortical sources generate scalp potentials. We present a controlled simulation framework for flash visual evoked potentials (FVEPs) based on a coupled Jansen--Rit neural mass network and a realistic finite-element EEG forward model. The framework generates a sequential activation pattern across early visual, parietal, and frontal regions and enables direct comparison of reconstructed activity with known ground truth. Standardized Kalman filtering (SKF), change-rate SKF (CrSKF), conventional Kalman filtering (KF), and linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV) beamforming are compared using parcel-wise time courses, temporal lags, and assessments of spatial focality and Earth Mover's Distance. In the inverse comparison, SKF and CrSKF preserve the principal temporal progression more consistently than KF and LCMV, while CrSKF produces smoother temporal estimates. The results also demonstrate parcel-wise leakage and reduced separation of closely spaced components, emphasizing the need to interpret temporal ordering together with spatial reconstruction quality. The proposed framework provides a reproducible test environment for evaluating dynamic EEG inverse methods under controlled noise conditions.
ER -