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Here you can find a description of the software that I have done and
that you can have (except where explicitly noticed)
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Project
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Description
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Status
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Rasterizer 1.9
A sipkes visualization
tool
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This is a program used in Prof. Roberto
Caminiti's lab that displays the intracortical neuronal activity of
the data collected during his visuo-motor experiments (you can see
a screenshot here). It
also performs several analyses in order to provide different views
of the same data. Its main ability is the possibility to perform a
reconstruction of the mapping fields thus correlating the firing frequency
of the neurons with the instantaneous position of the stimulus. It
is also able to treat moving stimuli and to generate different maps
depending on the stimuli movement direction.
Release 1.9 adds some capabilities, including data export, some data
"corrections" based on saccadic movements and several eye
movements analyses. Data compression is also supported. |
1.8 - November 2001
1.9.6 _ June 2002
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BrainPlot 1.0
SCD Interface
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This is a software that gets coordinates
from a microscope and exports the collected data into several file
formats, including Adobe Illustrator (you can see an example here).
It communicates with the microscope through a serial cable connection
and retrives the data following different modalities: on demand (a
key is pressed), on timer (every x ms the data are acquired) etc.
Also the data are stored into different "layers" (e.g. different
celles or structures) and they can be exported independently into
various file formats. Its native file format is XML because it can
easily support extensions and because of its high portabillity. |
1.0 - January 2002
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Borland Delphi / C++
Builder Form Converter
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This is a tool that converts a Borland DFM resource file
(Delphi and C++ Builder VCL Forms) into a standard RC file and a
CPP and HPP file. It also extracts images (JPEG, BMP, ICO, etc..)
from executables and dlls. Because a DFM file contains also a lot
of information about controls initializations
(e.g. you can specify the strings that will appear in a combobox,
without writing code), this utility interprets them and then automatically
writes the required code in a CPP file. You can then use some of
the RAD facilities in non-VCL applications too!!!. Release 1.0 is
freeware for non commercial use (and
it is available with full source code) and it is described
in the August 2000 issue of C/C++ Users Journal. You can download
it from there,
and you can have more info about it here.
The latest releases (without source code) can be downloaded here.
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1.0 - August 2000
1.2 - January 2001
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A portable C++ framework
for bio-feedback and Brain Computer Interface applications
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One of the main problems encountered in the development of computer-based
systems for handicapped people is
that it is very difficult to "tune" them in a wide range
of situations. This happens mainly because every potential user
has residual capabilities that are specific to his condition and
that make him in some way unique. It should be extremely useful
to use all of the voluntarily controlled activities such as eye
movements, muscle contractions, EEG (Electroencephalographic) activity,
etc. as inputs for a processing unit that could take care of recognizing
them and then translating them into desired tasks such as interact
with a PC, opening doors, playing-back some pre-recorded phrases,
using the telephone and so on. Unfortunately, building a system
for even a well-defined pathology might be difficult: optimal use
of residual capabilities in different subjects could require to
modify it at a level that is incompatible with practical needs.
This SDK wants to be a freeware solution
to a wide range of bio-feedback applications. Different biofeedback
applications have to deal with a lot of common tasks, and for this
reason an object oriented framework can simplify the process of
writing a lot of code: disabled people
has different impairments but the necessities are quite stereotyped.
You can anyway have a better description of this framework here.
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A clinical data viewer
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Galileo NT is an environment that allows you to view a wide range
of clinical data. In its database are stored all the information
required to launch the proper viewer for that particular analysis
type. Every specific viewer is fully integrated into the main program:
it can add windows, menu items etc. to the main program using a
special plug-in interface that I have developed for this project.
Ideally there is not limit to the data that can be displayed.
This has been probably the biggest project I’ve done, and you can
have a better description of it here.
Unfortunately, you cannot have it for free, but you can buy it at
www.ebneuro.com.
You can, however, get from me some plug-ins and external tools and
if you need some special processing tool that does not exist (yet),
you can contact me: maybe I can develop something for you!
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A Gait Analysis Package
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This is one of the programs that I have developed and used for
my scientific bio-mechanical publications (ref. 4, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10).
This tool performs the 3-D gait analysis of subjects whose motion
was recorded with BTS Elite system, even if it can easily support
different 3-D acquisition systems. It is possible to filter the
3-D trajectories as well as compute the velocities, accelerations,
limbs angles, energies (divided in all the subcomponents), and the
covariation plane that was described in details in the publication
section (Borghese et. al. 1996). It is also possible
to analize EMG data and ground reaction forces acquired simultaneously
with the Elite System. This program has been the only Elite Data
viewer under Microsoft Windows platform for years, and a lot of
processing capabilities are still unsupported by other programs.
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May 2000
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Visual Stimuli
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This is the first C++ program I’ve written (it was 1994, and it
is still a milestone in Caminiti’s Lab) and I’m still supporting
it because of his unique features. You can program a sequence of
visual stimuli that are conditioned by some external events (such
as arm position, eye movements, etc). Several Caminiti’s works have
been published with this environment, and I participate in the early
days of this protocol family (see ref 5).
I did the User Interface of this software, while Paul Johnson did
all the (hard) acquisition stuff. I have been really lucky to learn
a lot things from a genius such as Paul: I think he is the most
intelligent man I've ever known!
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1994-2001
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©
Copyright (2000), Luigi Bianchi
Last Update:
June 25, 2002
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