  Decoding images from brain activity has been a challenge. Owing to the
development of deep learning, there are available tools to solve this problem.
The decoded image, which aims to map neural spike trains to low-level visual
features and high-level semantic information space. Recently, there are a few
studies of decoding from spike trains, however, these studies pay less
attention to the foundations of neuroscience and there are few studies that
merged receptive field into visual image reconstruction. In this paper, we
propose a deep learning neural network architecture with biological properties
to reconstruct visual image from spike trains. As far as we know, we
implemented a method that integrated receptive field property matrix into loss
function at the first time. Our model is an end-to-end decoder from neural
spike trains to images. We not only merged Gabor filter into auto-encoder which
used to generate images but also proposed a loss function with receptive field
properties. We evaluated our decoder on two datasets which contain macaque
primary visual cortex neural spikes and salamander retina ganglion cells (RGCs)
spikes. Our results show that our method can effectively combine receptive
field features to reconstruct images, providing a new approach to visual
reconstruction based on neural information.
