Braindecode

Braindecode is an open-source Python toolbox for decoding raw electrophysiological brain data with deep learning models. It includes dataset fetchers, data preprocessing and visualization tools, as well as implementations of several deep learning architectures and data augmentations for analysis of EEG, ECoG and MEG.

For neuroscientists who want to work with deep learning and deep learning researchers who want to work with neurophysiological data.

Installation Braindecode

Install pytorch from http://pytorch.org/ (you don’t need to install torchvision).
If you want to download EEG datasets from MOABB, install it:

pip install moabb

Install latest release of braindecode via pip:

pip install braindecode

If you want to install the latest development version of braindecode, please refer to contributing page

Documentation

Documentation is online under https://braindecode.org, both in the stable and dev versions.

Contributing to Braindecode

Guidelines for contributing to the library can be found on the braindecode github:

https://github.com/braindecode/braindecode/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Citing

If you use Braindecode in scientific work, please cite the software using the global Zenodo DOI shown in the badge below:

You can use the following BibTeX entry:

@software{braindecode,
  author = {Aristimunha, Bruno and
            Guetschel, Pierre and
            Wimpff, Martin and
            Gemein, Lukas and
            Rommel, Cedric and
            Banville, Hubert and
            Sliwowski, Maciej and
            Wilson, Daniel and
            Brandt, Simon and
            Gnassounou, Théo and
            Paillard, Joseph and
            {Junqueira Lopes}, Bruna and
            Sedlar, Sara and
            Moreau, Thomas and
            Chevallier, Sylvain and
            Gramfort, Alexandre and
            Schirrmeister, Robin Tibor},
  title = {Braindecode: toolbox for decoding raw electrophysiological brain data
           with deep learning models},
  url = {https://github.com/braindecode/braindecode},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.17699192},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  license = {BSD-3-Clause},
}

Additionally, we highly encourage you to cite the article that originally introduced the Braindecode library and has served as a foundational reference for many works on deep learning with EEG recordings. Please use the following reference:

@article {HBM:HBM23730,
author = {Schirrmeister, Robin Tibor and Springenberg, Jost Tobias and Fiederer,
  Lukas Dominique Josef and Glasstetter, Martin and Eggensperger, Katharina and Tangermann, Michael and
  Hutter, Frank and Burgard, Wolfram and Ball, Tonio},
title = {Deep learning with convolutional neural networks for EEG decoding and visualization},
journal = {Human Brain Mapping},
issn = {1097-0193},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23730},
doi = {10.1002/hbm.23730},
month = {aug},
year = {2017},
keywords = {electroencephalography, EEG analysis, machine learning, end-to-end learning, brain–machine interface,
  brain–computer interface, model interpretability, brain mapping},
}

as well as the MNE-Python software that is used by braindecode:

@article{10.3389/fnins.2013.00267,
author={Gramfort, Alexandre and Luessi, Martin and Larson, Eric and Engemann, Denis and Strohmeier, Daniel and Brodbeck, Christian and Goj, Roman and Jas, Mainak and Brooks, Teon and Parkkonen, Lauri and Hämäläinen, Matti},
title={{MEG and EEG data analysis with MNE-Python}},
journal={Frontiers in Neuroscience},
volume={7},
pages={267},
year={2013},
url={https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2013.00267},
doi={10.3389/fnins.2013.00267},
issn={1662-453X},
}

Licensing

This project is primarily licensed under the BSD-3-Clause License.

Additional Components

Some components within this repository are licensed under other licenses, including Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0), Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), MIT and Apache-2.0.

Please refer to the LICENSE and NOTICE files for the per-file list and more detailed information.

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