MEDUSA© Platform
Our Python-based platform provides an appealing user interface for visualizing biosignals and performing BCI experiments in real-time! Download the binaries or source code of the current or previous versions below
Eduardo Santamaría-Vázquez, Víctor Martínez-Cagigal, Diego Marcos-Martínez, Víctor Rodríguez-González, Sergio Pérez-Velasco, Selene Moreno-Calderón, Roberto Hornero, MEDUSA©: A novel Python-based software ecosystem to accelerate brain-computer interface and cognitive neuroscience research. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2023, DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2023.107357 .
Latest Version
MEDUSA© Platform v2025 release. Changelog:
New features:
- Version compatible with medusa-kernel 1.4
- New time-frequency real time plots: Spectrogram and Power distribution plots
- New configuration panel for LSL streams
- New widget to configure the M/EEG montage
- Multitab panel for real-time charts that allows better organization
Improvements:
- Improvements in LSL stream syncronization and time corrections
- Adaptation for Python 3.13 and new versions of several packages to increase efficiency
- Better app management and improved save dialog with more options
- All real time plots are new built on top of matplotlib to facilitate maitainance, pyqtgraph is no longer a dependency
Previous Versions
MEDUSA© Platform v2024 release. Changelog:
New features:
- PyQt5 has been replaced by PySide6 as main GUI framework
- New study management feature
- New session management feature
- Automatic notification of app updates
- New real time plots
Improvements:
- Improvements in LSL stream syncronization and time corrections
- Error messages
- Adaptation to new pip format in versions 24.1 and above
MEDUSA© Platform v2023 release. Changelog:
Breaking changes:
- Automatic updates for major and minor versions
- Automatic installation of app requirements
- Automatic updates of MEDUSA© Kernel
- Supports MEDUSA© Kernel v1.2.x
Major changes:
- Improved app templates for Qt and Unity
- Unified progress dialog
- Major improvements in LSL stream syncronization and time corrections
- New LSL search mode to prevent annoying reconnections after an LSL stream is restarted
- New real-time plots, including real time topography and connectivity
Minor changes:
- Bug fix when login is required and there is an update available
- Docs links fixed
- Dependencies updated
- Bug fix in pre-processing of real-time plots
- Improved progress dialog to show an accept button and errors in red
- Bug fix when docking/undocking panels
- Adaptation to new pip format in versions 24.1 and above
First major update for MEDUSA© v2022, your platform to perform brain-computer interface and neuroscience experiments.
Breaking changes:
- Improved LSL synchronization
- Improved LSL information interpretation to accommodate different formats
- Unity app template improved
- Default folders added to repository
- Unity TCPClient updated
- Bug fixes