NeuroMath: Neurophysiology Analysis Toolkit

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的目标是开发一个开源的、商业支持的软件包，以帮助神经科学研究界进行神经生理学和心理物理学数据的分析，使这些分析可用于临床应用。这个包将被称为“神经数学”，它将由一个库组成，它将作为编程语言Matlab的工具箱和C-Motion的Visual3D临床运动分析软件的插件。NeuroMath工具箱将扩展Matlab语言的功能，专门用于处理、分析和显示在神经生理学或心理物理学实验中收集的数据。该软件的主要优势在于它的灵活性，允许最终用户以最小的努力为特定的实验情况定制它。Visual3D是一个功能强大的运动分析程序。将Visual3D扩展到NeuroMath功能的影响将是临床研究运动相关中枢神经系统疾病分析技术的创新，最大限度地提高不同诊所和研究机构之间数据解释的一致性。对于拥有Matlab的用户（特别是对分析其数据感兴趣的研究人员），NeuroMath将作为扩展MaUab语言的开源工具箱提供。对于拥有Visual3D的用户（特别是查看患者数据的临床医生），NeuroMath将作为Visual3D的插件提供。由于研究人员使用Matlab工具箱编写的自定义神经数学函数可以编译成Visual3D的插件，因此该项目将使研究社区开发的特定分析能够被临床医生用于检查患者的软件所吸收。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this project is to develop an open source, commercially supported software package to assist the neuroscience research community in performing analyses of neurophysiological and psychophysical data, which makes these analyses available for clinical applications. This package will be called "NeuroMath", and it will consist of a single library that will function both as a toolbox for the programming language Matlab and a plug-in to C-Motion's Visual3D clinical movement analysis software. The NeuroMath toolbox will extend the Matlab language with functions specifically designed to process, analyze, and display data collected during neurophysiological or psychophysical experiments. The main strength of the software will be its flexibility, allowing the end-user to customize it for specific experimental situations with minimal effort. Visual3D is a powerful movement analysis program. The impact of expanding Visual3D to include the NeuroMath functions will be new innovations in analytical techniques for clinical research into movement related central nervous system disorders, maximizing the consistency in the interpretation of data between different clinics and research institutions. For users who own Matlab (in particular, researchers interested in analyzing their data), NeuroMath will be available as an open-source toolbox which extends the MaUab language. For users who own Visual3D (in particular, clinicians looking at patient data), NeuroMath will be available as a plug-in to Visual3D. Because custom NeuroMath functions written by researchers using the Matlab toolbox can be compiled into a plug-in to Visual3D, the project will make it possible for specific analyses developed by the research community to be assimilated into the software used by clinicians to examine their patients.