Researchers at Lanzhou University, Zhejiang University, the University of Hong Kong and Sun Yat-sen University have built MindShow, a unified generative framework that reconstructs images from fMRI at cohort level rather than one subject at a time. A hierarchically conditioned mixture-of-experts encoder separates population-shared latent representations from subject-specific neural traits, so a new subject can be adapted with limited calibration data; a gated Perceiver bottleneck maps fMRI features into fixed-size image and text tokens, an optimal transport loss aligns them with a pretrained vision-language model, and a frozen diffusion model renders the image. The authors report better high-level reconstruction metrics with competitive structural fidelity, in a study published in Medical Image Analysis on June 20, 2026.
