probe class needs to be clear

chongxi / spiketag

Next generation of spike sorting package for BMI

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Open chongxi opened 5 years ago

chongxi commented 5 years ago

from spiketag.base import probe
prb = probe()
prb.load('./prb**.json')

the prb contains: grp_dict chs, mask_chs ch_idx grp_matrix, mask_grp_matrix, matrix n_ch, n_group, group_len, fs

The use of these variables is sometimes mixed and become very confusing.

chongxi commented 5 years ago

A probe class contains 4 categories of structured information:

position of electrodes id: (x,y)
mapping from the virtual index (the hash index used by the BMI) to the physical index (produced by the probe producer and the acquisition system) of electrodes.
grouping the electrodes into a unit so the spikes detected on these electrodes are grouped together to generate a spike event.
usage of every electrodes (for recording, for reference or not used (masked) because it is a bad channel)
meta info (The global variable such as n_ch, n_group, group_len, fs etc.. )