Introduction of RICOH/YOKOGAWA MEG data format and trends in open source MEG applications

Abstract

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) analysis requires specialized analysis software provided by MEG manufacturers. Such software, however, does not catch up with the latest analysis techniques, and MEG users are using third-party software to analyze MEG data. Third-party software developers need to support the data format defined by the MEG manufacturers. We have been providing software developers with APIs for reading our MEG data in MATLAB, C/C++, and Python, considering using GitHub and standardization by MEG-BIDS. In this presentation, we introduce the development trends in major open source MEG analysis software and the RICOH/YOKOGAWA's MEG data format.