PRANA Tools
The PRANA® software for biosignal processing has convenient tools to rapidly access essential programs and change the software settings.
Software Setup
The different software programs use default settings allowing identification of users and access to software-related data. These default settings can be modified using the software setup interface.
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Software setup window |
The different software programs use default settings allowing identification of users and access to software-related data. These default settings can be modified using the software setup interface.
The software setup interface allows:
- specifying the software suite default directories,
- specifying the default reviewing montage and calibration files,
- specifying the default software recording file format filter,
- activating the software suite password-protected user identification and audit trail.
In compliance with standard requirements for computer use and electronic records in the context of good clinical and laboratory practise (ICH - 21 CFR Part 11), the PRANA® software for biosignal processing provides audit trail recording and signing components for non-repudiation of results:
- audit trail recording all software operations and plug-in settings,
- date, time and user stamping,
- centralised identification and password validation.
Software Manager
The software offers a convenient and powerful data management functions to easily and efficiently access and retrieve any software-related data. From the software manager graphical interface, the software user can:
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Data manager window |
- browse and open up software-related files from default and custom paths,
- sort, select and list software-related files using name patterns and extension types,
- execute software-related commands on selected software-related files.
The software manager is a convenient and powerful tool allowing to:
- quickly overviewing the software suite-related file contents,
- directly launching the software suite main programs (Viewer, Profiler, Report Generator) and executing in a single batch a selection of optional plug-ins,
- exporting and visualizing as text and graphic files the results from any software add-on plug-ins.
Software Plug-in Launcher
The software plug-in launcher is a convenient time-saving tool allowing the selection, configuration and single-run execution of multiple software suite plug-ins.
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Plug-in launcher window |
The software plug-in launcher allows:
- selection of a list of optional or user plug-ins to be executed,
- access to selected software plug-ins interface for configuration,
- adjustment of the recording time interval for all selected software plug-ins,
- launching and executing in a single run all selected software plug-ins.
Software Audit Trailer
The software audit tools offer convenient functions to keep track of all software operations made by different identified users.
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Audit trail window |
The software audit trail allows:
- Creation and selection of password-encrypted user accounts,
- Authenticating into registered user account,
- Keeping track of the software operation history into protected user log files.
- Exporting the software log history into human visible text format.
The software, in partial compliance with the standard requirements for computer uses and electronic records in the context of good clinical and laboratory practise (ICH - 21 CRF Part 11), ensures audit trail recording of all software operations and plug-in settings and non-repudiation of results with date, time and user stamping and centralized authorisation.
Software Export Tools
Independently of the original recording format, the software supports various export options for raw signals, intermediate results and final outcomes:
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Export time series |
- European Data Format recordings (*.edf) from the EDF consortium.
- LORETA EEG/ERP files (*.lor) from the KEY Institute for Brain-Mind Research.
- MATLAB binary files (*.pra).
- Raw binary int16 files (*.bin).
- Standard ASCII text files (*.txt).
A software-specific ASCII file format with tabulation separators and standard headers containing all the information necessary to encode various data types ensures exporting and importing the results obtained from any analysis or detection software plug-ins. All results can be opened using any text-file editor (Notepad, Write, etc.).
Software Developer Kit
The software developer kit allows users with a basic knowledge of MATLAB to easily and quickly integrate their own algorithms to create additional software plug-ins featuring new signal analysis or detection methods.
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Developer kit: graphical interface and source code |
The software developer kit contains the source code and prototype interface allowing to:
- display, edit and register the settings configuring any user plug-ins from a graphical interface,
- access the requested signals as a workspace data matrix with time and channel as input parameters,
- quiclky integrate any algorithms without the need to handle input/output compatibility,
- implement, test and optimise any algorithms for signal processing or event detection,
- save the results of the integrated algorithms either as time serie or event files compatble with the software suite programs and export funtion.
Software plug-ins developped by users are automatically detected and can be launched and executed independently of the file format used to stored recordings.
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