Added EDF and GDF Support

The BCPy2000 tool set for BCI2000 allows for programming of BCI2000 modules, i.e., User Application, Signal Processing, or Data Acquisition, using Python. The present tool set takes advantage of several well-known high-level Python packages: VisionEgg for stimulus presentation, NumPy and SciPy for signal processing and classification, and IPython for interactive debugging. (Jeremy Hill).

The first paper that comprehensively described the BCI2000 system (Schalk et al., IEEE T Biomed Eng, 51(6), 2004), received the Outstanding Paper Award by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. This award is listed in the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, 27(5), p. 125, September/October 2008.

Dr. Alois Schloegl improved support for BCI2000 data files in the Biosig toolbox, which is available at http://biosig.sourceforge.net.

Gaetano Gargiulo and Giulio Pasquariello (University of Naples “Federico II”) contributed a BCI2000 source module to support National Instruments boards that use the new MX drivers.

Successfully built a test version of a functioning BCI2000 application module on Linux using QT4. (Adam Wilson)

Added high pass/low pass/notch filtering capacity of visualized signals to Operator. (Juergen Mellinger)

The BCI2000 Project secures a 4-yr grant from NIH/NIBIB to further develop and maintain the BCI2000 system. (Gerwin Schalk).

Created an analysis tool (i.e., P300GUI) to derive the discriminant function (i.e., MUD matrix weights) for P300 experiments. (Dean Krusienski)

Created BCIlauncher utility that can execute different BCI2000 configurations and load a specified set of parameters. (Adam Wilson)

Updated the BCI2000 framework to be compatible with Borland’s Developer Studio 2006. (Juergen Mellinger)

Added automatic version reporting. Systems parameters contain version for the framework and all modules. (Juergen Mellinger)

Added BCI2000 for Modular EEG systems. (Chris Veigl)

BCI2000 command line tools are verified to compile with the free Borland C++ Compiler 5.5 (Roberta Carabalona, Juergen Mellinger)

Streamlined BCI2000 directory structure to facilitate system deployment. (Juergen Mellinger and Gerwin Schalk)

BCI2000 External Application Interface created to allow external programs to get access, or to set, the internal state and signals of BCI2000. This could be used, for example, to control an external robotic arm application with control signals derived by BCI2000 signal processing. (Juergen Mellinger)

Floating point support added (Juergen Mellinger): 1) Communication of brain/control signals between BCI2000 modules changed from shorts to floating points. 2) Data file format and framework extended to support data files and data acquisition boards with 32 bit integers and floating point numbers.

Added additional capabilities (e.g., variable # targets, etc.) to the mu rhythm speller (Shidong Zheng, Melody Moore, Gerwin Schalk)

Created 3D Cursor Movement Task (D3Box) using a flexible OpenGL API (Shidong Zheng, Melody Moore, Gerwin Schalk)

Streamlined BCI2000 statistics module in preparation for support for three dimensions of control (Dennis McFarland)

Communication framework completely rewritten (Juergen Mellinger)

Enhanced support for Data Translation boards: now supports input from two simultaneous boards (i.e., 128 channels total); (Gerwin Schalk)

Updated the Slow Wave user application and added an n-choice speller to it (Juergen Mellinger).

Added a 2D cursor movement task that can accept input from brain signals or a joystick (Dennis McFarland).

Improved error handling and numerous other enhancements (Juergen Mellinger).

Proposal for a procedure to handle errors in BCI2000 (Juergen Mellinger)

Updated web site and added description of reference system (Gerwin Schalk).