QSpike tools: A generic framework for parallel batch preprocessing of extracellular neuronal signals recorded by substrate microelectrode arrays

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Mahmud, Mufti ^a,b   Pulizzi, Rocco ^a   Vasilak, Eleni ^a,c   Giugliano, Michele ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Batch analysis; Cellular electrophysiology; Embarrassingly parallel signal processing; Extracellular; MEAs; Substrate arrays of microelectrodes

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEMORY; MICROELECTRODE; PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION;

EID: 84896907029     PISSN: 16625196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2014.00026     Document Type: Article

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