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

fYear

2012

fDate

Aug. 28 2012-Sept. 1 2012

Firstpage

1786

Lastpage

1788

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4119-8

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346296

Filename

6346296