fMRI artefact rejection and sleep scoring toolbox

Comput Intell Neurosci. 2011:2011:598206. doi: 10.1155/2011/598206. Epub 2011 Mar 13.

Abstract

We started writing the "fMRI artefact rejection and sleep scoring toolbox", or "FAST", to process our sleep EEG-fMRI data, that is, the simultaneous recording of electroencephalographic and functional magnetic resonance imaging data acquired while a subject is asleep. FAST tackles three crucial issues typical of this kind of data: (1) data manipulation (viewing, comparing, chunking, etc.) of long continuous M/EEG recordings, (2) rejection of the fMRI-induced artefact in the EEG signal, and (3) manual sleep-scoring of the M/EEG recording. Currently, the toolbox can efficiently deal with these issues via a GUI, SPM8 batching system or hand-written script. The tools developed are, of course, also useful for other EEG applications, for example, involving simultaneous EEG-fMRI acquisition, continuous EEG eye-balling, and manipulation. Even though the toolbox was originally devised for EEG data, it will also gracefully handle MEG data without any problem. "FAST" is developed in Matlab as an add-on toolbox for SPM8 and, therefore, internally uses its SPM8-meeg data format. "FAST" is available for free, under the

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Access to Information
  • Artifacts
  • Electroencephalography / methods*
  • Electronic Data Processing / methods
  • Electronic Data Processing / standards
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
  • Pattern Recognition, Automated / methods*
  • Pattern Recognition, Automated / standards
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted*
  • Sleep / physiology*
  • Software / standards*
  • Software Design
  • Software Validation