CURRENT – v2025 (RHEA)

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

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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

RHEA v2025 2025-12-04
<p>MEDUSA© Platform v2025 release. Changelog:</p> <p><strong>New features:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Version compatible with medusa-kernel 1.4</li> <li>New time-frequency real time plots: Spectrogram and Power distribution plots</li> <li>New configuration panel for LSL streams</li> <li>New widget to configure the M/EEG montage</li> <li>Multitab panel for real-time charts that allows better organization</li> </ul> <p><br> <strong>Improvements:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Improvements in LSL stream syncronization and time corrections</li> <li>Adaptation for Python 3.13 and new versions of several packages to increase efficiency</li> <li>Better app management and improved save dialog with more options</li> <li>All real time plots are new built on top of matplotlib to facilitate maitainance, pyqtgraph is no longer a dependency</li> </ul>

Previous Versions

KRONOS v2024 2024-10-10
<p>MEDUSA© Platform v2024 release. Changelog:</p> <p><strong>New features:</strong></p> <ul> <li>PyQt5 has been replaced by PySide6 as main GUI framework</li> <li>New study management feature</li> <li>New session management feature</li> <li>Automatic notification of app updates</li> <li>New real time plots</li> </ul> <p><br> <strong>Improvements:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Improvements in LSL stream syncronization and time corrections</li> <li>Error messages</li> <li>Adaptation to new pip format in versions 24.1 and above</li> </ul>
GAIA v2023 2024-06-26
<p>MEDUSA© Platform v2023 release. Changelog:</p> <p><strong>Breaking changes:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Automatic updates for major and minor versions</li> <li>Automatic installation of app requirements</li> <li>Automatic updates of MEDUSA© Kernel</li> <li>Supports MEDUSA© Kernel v1.2.x</li> </ul> <p><br> <strong>Major changes:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Improved app templates for Qt and Unity</li> <li>Unified progress dialog</li> <li>Major improvements in LSL stream syncronization and time corrections</li> <li>New LSL search mode to prevent annoying reconnections after an LSL stream is restarted</li> <li>New real-time plots, including real time topography and connectivity</li> </ul> <p><br> <strong>Minor changes:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bug fix when login is required and there is an update available</li> <li>Docs links fixed </li> <li>Dependencies updated</li> <li>Bug fix in pre-processing of real-time plots</li> <li>Improved progress dialog to show an accept button and errors in red</li> <li>Bug fix when docking/undocking panels</li> <li>Adaptation to new pip format in versions 24.1 and above</li> </ul>
CHAOS v2022 2022-09-21
<p>First major update for MEDUSA© v2022, your platform to perform brain-computer interface and neuroscience experiments.</p> <p><strong>Breaking changes:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Improved LSL synchronization</li> <li>Improved LSL information interpretation to accommodate different formats</li> <li>Unity app template improved</li> <li>Default folders added to repository</li> <li>Unity TCPClient updated</li> <li>Bug fixes</li> </ul>