MetaBCI: An open-source platform for brain-computer interfaces.

Comput Biol Med

Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, People's Republic of China; Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Precision Instruments and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, People's Republic of China; Haihe Laboratory of Brain-computer Interaction and Human-machine Integration, Tianjin, 300392, People's Republic of China.

Published: January 2024

Background: Recently, brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have attracted worldwide attention for their great potential in clinical and real-life applications. To implement a complete BCI system, one must set up several links to translate the brain intent into computer commands. However, there is not an open-source software platform that can cover all links of the BCI chain.

Method: This study developed a one-stop open-source BCI software, namely MetaBCI, to facilitate the construction of a BCI system. MetaBCI is written in Python, and has the functions of stimulus presentation (Brainstim), data loading and processing (Brainda), and online information flow (Brainflow). This paper introduces the detailed information of MetaBCI and presents four typical application cases.

Results: The results showed that MetaBCI was an extensible and feature-rich software platform for BCI research and application, which could effectively encode, decode, and feedback brain activities.

Conclusions: MetaBCI can greatly lower the BCI's technical threshold for BCI beginners and can save time and cost to build up a practical BCI system. The source code is available at https://github.com/TBC-TJU/MetaBCI, expecting new contributions from the BCI community.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.107806DOI Listing

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