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Updated loadHitachiText.m

Some labs have been using our script readHitachiData.m to load NIRS data from Hitachi ETG machines. We recently found that some output MES data contains abnormal timestamp. For example, the timestamp should be like 16:49:25.406 But for some rows (alt
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Learning deep learning (project 2, image classification)

In this class project, I built a network to classify images in the CIFAR-10 dataset. This dataset is freely available. The dataset contains 60K color images (32×32 pixel) in 10 classes, with 6K images per class. Here are the classes in the datas
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Chin rest (head holder) device for NIRS

When we set up our NIRS lab back in 2008, we needed a device to prevent participants’ head movement during the experiment and during the digitizer measurement. Even though NIRS is tolerant to head motion, we still want to minimize it. During th
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We contributed to MatLab (wavelet toolbox)

We use MatLab a lot! It’s the major program for brain imaging data analysis in our lab. However, I never thought we could actually contribute to MatLab’s development. In MatLab 2016, there is a toolbox called Wavelet Toolbox. If you read
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Communications between two MatLabs (1) over file

Ref to: Communications between two MatLabs (2): over socket It’s common that two MatLab programs needs to communicate. For instance, one program is collecting the brain imaging data but not display them, and the other program is to display the
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Stork是我最好的科研助手(2):经费提醒

1. 我的导师是否有经费? 2. 我在寻找博后的职位;我未来的老板是否有足够的经费支持我? 3. 有多少经费拨给了我的研究领域(比如NIRS)?谁得到了这些经费?他们将用这些经费做什么? 你是否也曾考
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A mistake in my False discovery rate (FDR) correction…

I have posted an FDR script at https://www.alivelearn.net/?p=1840. I noticed that there is a small bug. In rare cases, this bug will cause the most significant voxel to be classified as ‘non-significant’ while other voxels are ‘sign
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OpenBCI EEG

Manish Saggar in our lab brought something very cool – a helmet like EEG system. He called it “dry” EEG because it does not requite gel. The design is not polished, but it’s cheap, like $800. And it does not need long wires to
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Some tips to use wavelet toolbox

Wavelet toolbox is a useful tool to study hyperscanning data. Many recent publications on NIRS hyperscanning use wavelet coherence to quantify the relationship between two interacting brains (e.g. Baker et al 2016, Nozawa et al 2016). You can see mor
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