title: fMRI artefact rejection and sleep scoring toolbox.
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
authors: Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, Belgium.
authors: Yves
authors: Y
authors: Leclercq
authors: Jessica
authors: J
authors: Schrouff
authors: Quentin
authors: Q
authors: Noirhomme
authors: Pierre
authors: P
authors: Maquet
authors: Christophe
authors: C
authors: Phillips
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D016477:Artifacts; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D001330:Electronic Data Processing / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D012984:Software / Q000592:standards*; D012985:Software Design; D012986:Software Validation