Title :
Mushu, a free- and open source BCI signal acquisition, written in Python
Author :
Venthur, B. ; Blankertz, Benjamin
Author_Institution :
Berlin Inst. of Technol., Berlin, Germany
fDate :
Aug. 28 2012-Sept. 1 2012
Abstract :
The following paper describes Mushu, a signal acquisition software for retrieval and online streaming of Electroencephalography (EEG) data. It is written, but not limited, to the needs of Brain Computer Interfacing (BCI). It´s main goal is to provide a unified interface to EEG data regardless of the amplifiers used. It runs under all major operating systems, like Windows, Mac OS and Linux, is written in Python and is free- and open source software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Keywords :
Linux; brain-computer interfaces; data acquisition; electroencephalography; information retrieval; medical signal detection; medical signal processing; operating systems (computers); public domain software; EEG data; GNU General Public License; Linux; Mac OS; Mushu; Python; Windows; brain-computer interface; electroencephalography data; free-source BCI signal acquisition; major operating systems; online streaming; open source BCI signal acquisition; signal acquisition software; signal retrieval; Computers; Electroencephalography; Libraries; Linux; Signal processing; Software; Universal Serial Bus; Brain-Computer Interfaces; Electroencephalography; Humans; Programming Languages; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Software;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4119-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346296