braingram/pywaveclus

Python port of WaveClus

Python port of WaveClus Matlab spike sorting package

This python package is (mostly) a port of WaveClus to python.

What is WaveClus

Original WaveClus package: http://vis.caltech.edu/~rodri/Wave_clus/Wave_clus_home.htm

reported in: R. Quian Quiroga, Z. Nadasdy and Y. Ben-Shaul. Neural Computation 16, 1661-1687; 2004.

An excellent description of spike sorting can be found here: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Spike_sorting

How does pywaveclus differ?

WaveClus used a elliptic type bandpass filter.

pywaveclus uses wavelet filtering based on code found here: http://www.berkelab.org/Software.html

reported in: A. B. Wiltschko, G. J. Gage and J. D. Berke. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 173:1, 34-40; 2008.

Installation

Requirements

see requirements.txt for most up to date information

• numpy >= 1.5.1
• scipy >= 0.8.0
• pywavelets >= 0.2.0
• scikits.audiolab >= 0.11.0 (only for reading wav files in pyc.py)
• tables>=2.2.1 (only for saving hdf5 files in pyc.py)
• nose >= 0.11 (only for testing)

The library version numbers may be more strict than necessary.

It may be necessary to install these requirements prior to installing as I don't know if setup.py correctly installs missing requirements.

Installing

python setup.py install

Testing

python setup.py test

or

import pywaveclus.tests

pywaveclus.tests.test.run()

Running

To cluster a single audio file run:

pyc.py <file>

pyc.py has lots of command line options (pyc.py -h) and will produce a hdf5 or mat file containing spike times, clusters, and waveforms.

The mat file contains index matched lists (times[0] corresponds to the same spike as waves[0] and clus[0], etc...):

• times : times of the spikes (in samples/frames)
• waves : waveforms of the spikes
• clus : clusters to which the spikes belongs (cluster 0 is unmatched)

The hdf5 file contains a main table SpikeTable that contains a row for each spike and the following columns:

• time : time of the spike (in samples/frames)
• wave : waveform of the spike
• clu : cluster to which the spike belongs (cluster 0 is unmatched)

Notes

Building scikits.audiolab on ubuntu:

• sudo apt-get install libsndfile1-dev
• git clone https://github.com/cournape/audiolab.git
• cd audiolab
• echo -e "[sndfile]ninclude_dirs = /usr/includenlibrary_dirs = /usr/lib32nsndfile_libs = sndfile" > site.cfg
• pip install .

pywaveclus's Issues

Problems to install

Hi,

I'm trying to install pywaveclus, but I'm getting this error related to scikits library:

File "/home/eletrofisiologia/Downloads/pywaveclus-master/pywaveclus/dsp/ica.py", line 5, in
import scikits.learn.decomposition
ImportError: No module named learn.decomposition

I have installed all the libraries listed in requirements. Any ideas on this issue?

Best Regards,
Eliezyer