Large-scale analysis of neural activity and connectivity from high-density electroencephalographic data.
Comput Biol Med
; 178: 108704, 2024 Jun 03.
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ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
High-density electroencephalography (hdEEG) is a technique used for the characterization of the neural activity and connectivity in the human brain. The analysis of EEG data involves several steps, including signal pre-processing, head modelling, source localization and activity/connectivity quantification. Visual check of the analysis steps is often necessary, making the process time- and resource-consuming and, therefore, not feasible for large datasets.FINDINGS:
Here we present the Noninvasive Electrophysiology Toolbox (NET), an open-source software for large-scale analysis of hdEEG data, running on the cross-platform MATLAB environment. NET combines all the tools required for a complete hdEEG analysis workflow, from raw signals to final measured values. By relying on reconstructed neural signals in the brain, NET can perform traditional analyses of time-locked neural responses, as well as more advanced functional connectivity and brain mapping analyses. The extracted quantitative neural data can be exported to provide broad compatibility with other software.CONCLUSIONS:
NET is freely available (https//github.com/bind-group-kul/net) under the GNU public license for non-commercial use and open-source development, together with a graphical user interface (GUI) and a user tutorial. While NET can be used interactively with the GUI, it is primarily aimed at unsupervised automation to process large hdEEG datasets efficiently. Its implementation creates indeed a highly customizable program suitable for analysis automation and tight integration into existing workflows.
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Comput Biol Med
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2024
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