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README - What's New in Each Revision of BrainStorm 2.0 (Alpha)

 By it's very nature, Alpha development/revision is not as controlled as later
 versions. Below are approximate comments as to what we are improving in each
 version

 12-July-2004

 - Data import of BESA and Neuroscan average EEG files is now operative: 
 Access is through DataManager -> File -> Import Data -> Pick-up a Data
 Format
 Electrode locations can be read from multiple file formats:
      '.elp' simple BESA ASCII format
      '.dat' NeuroScan for BESA electrode format
      '.res' NeuroScan for Curry format
      '.sfp' ZEBRIS ASCII format
 [Thanks to Felix Darvas: SIPI/USC]

 20-July-2004

 - Data import:
 For better interchange with BrainVisa software (see
 http://brainvisa.info) :
  -> New MRI format import filters include GIS MR format 
  -> New Tessellation format import filters include MESH 
  
 09-July-2004

 - Data averaging within a study is now operative: 
 Access is through DataViewer -> Basic Processing -> Average
                   Select data files within current study folder
                   Enter a value in ms for acceptable time-jitter about
                   some time-locked event (default is 0)
                   Selected data files are then averaged, with adaptation
                   of time window if original data don't have same lenght
                   or time limits and stored in a BrainStorm data file
                   within current study folder.
 - Data filtering is now operating again (-> Matlab Signal Processing Toolbox is required):
   Access is through : DataViewer -> Basic Processing -> Filter
                       A new GUI is created and offers the possibility to 
                                 - bandpass filter data using a zero-phase filter
                                 - for EEG : move to average-reference potentials, once bad channels were removed
 - Fixed bug when importing from CTF markers: some time clipping may occur
 when requested time window about a marker occurence would end up having
 an edge outisde the trial time limits. A message is now issued within
 DS2BRAINSTORM stating that time clipping has occured and related event
 data files have now a Time variable with proper length
 - Fixed bug in 2D layout measures display: DataViewer -> DataViewing ->
 2D layout
 - EXTRACT_CHANNELS: Fixed bug for CTF computation when first MEG channel containing coef
                 correction information is declared as BAD: store coef
                 information in first good MEG channel and trim number of
                 lines of correction matrix to proper number of good MEG
                 channels only (crucial when running RAP_MUSIC estimation).
 - Minor change to DataViewer GUI layout : direct access to Averager and
 and Filter
 - Moved obsolete code to Archive:
    [filter_win.m and .mat] + [mri_scan_params.fig and .m] + [waves_multi.m and
    .mat]
 
 08-July-2004

 - Fixed miscellaneous file access issues encountered under Linux (e.g. during data import)

 07-July-2004

 - Fixed uicontext menu bug under Linux in DATA_MANAGER: could not load
   data using right click.
 - Fixed minor SUBJECT_EDITOR bugs: 
        .new values for field entries of the
        subject file are now properly displayed at once when user click on 'save'
        button;
        .Date of Modification field is automatically set to current day's date when subject file is updated 
        .Anatomy-> Import now properly calls BST_MRIVIEWER (was still calling older MRITool)

 06-July-2004

 - Import raw MRI: Axial/Sagittal/Coronal pulldown menu switch is now
   operative.

 21-June-2004

 - Baillet Release 2 now available in Paris, France. Mom and baby daughter
   doing very well, Dad and older brother very happy.

 - Added locked-view Zoom feature to MRIViewer:
		.Go to View -> Zoom : extends Matlab's zoom feature in a single
		view by automatically adjusting axes limits to the other 2
		orthogonal views.

 - Change of colormap in MRIViewer GUI (bst_mriviewer.fig): 
        . Menu -> View -> Change Colormap : calls Matlab's 6.5 Colormap Editor

 - Ensured that all figures by default are set with handle visibility "on"
 - Added routine "find_mfiles", called from the command line that reverse
   engineers the m-files that open a particular figure
 - Added figure names to some of the Data Viewer outputs
 - Added Matlab default file menus to the Time Series and Topography of the MRI
   Viewer, to the Data Time Series of the Data Viewer output.

 16-June-2004

 - Added AVIPLAYER in PublicToolbox (create / save and playback AVI movies directly within BrainStorm's dataViewer)
 - User can alter/load and save custom colormaps using interaction with
 COLORMAPEDITOR (Matlab 6.5 and greater only)
 - Fixed bugs in loading raw data as to the DataType
 - Fixed bug in tesselation tool listing the EEG channel names for alignment
 - Minor alignment of MRI Viewer when reusing
 - Bug when viewing more than seven sources in bst_wavedata_display fixed.
 
 15-June-2004

 Fixed calls to overlapping-sphere forward modelling (MEG and EEG)
 

 14-June-2004

 Fixed setting of analysis time window in RAP-MUSIC 
    - now properly updates the display time window in Viewer
    - signal subspace statistics automatically update once a new time
      window is defined
 Fixed bug in assignement of empty Anatomy and Tesselation fields in
   subject editor

 Renamed Phantom/SampleRaw data to be of type "Mixed", added how to load text
   file, added brainstormstudy.mat file for convenience, changed "type" button
   to have more explicit directions on whether the sample data are homogeneous
   or of mixed types.

 Added similar how_to_load file to the Phantom/montreal_data folder.

 Updated Matlab bug information on the Forum pages, added info on unzipping.

 11-June-2004
 
 Added Help menu item for reporting bugs to the Forum
 Fixed bad link in Help menu for Local Web Pages
 Added this What's New feature as readme.m file in the toolbox
 Added categories to the BrainStorm Forum pages

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%README - What's New in Each Revision of BrainStorm 2.0 (Alpha)
%
% By it's very nature, Alpha development/revision is not as controlled as later
% versions. Below are approximate comments as to what we are improving in each
% version
%
% 12-July-2004
%
% - Data import of BESA and Neuroscan average EEG files is now operative: 
% Access is through DataManager -> File -> Import Data -> Pick-up a Data
% Format
% Electrode locations can be read from multiple file formats:
%      '.elp' simple BESA ASCII format
%      '.dat' NeuroScan for BESA electrode format
%      '.res' NeuroScan for Curry format
%      '.sfp' ZEBRIS ASCII format
% [Thanks to Felix Darvas: SIPI/USC]
%
% 20-July-2004
%
% - Data import:
% For better interchange with BrainVisa software (see
% http://brainvisa.info) :
%  -> New MRI format import filters include GIS MR format 
%  -> New Tessellation format import filters include MESH 
%  
% 09-July-2004
%
% - Data averaging within a study is now operative: 
% Access is through DataViewer -> Basic Processing -> Average
%                   Select data files within current study folder
%                   Enter a value in ms for acceptable time-jitter about
%                   some time-locked event (default is 0)
%                   Selected data files are then averaged, with adaptation
%                   of time window if original data don't have same lenght
%                   or time limits and stored in a BrainStorm data file
%                   within current study folder.
% - Data filtering is now operating again (-> Matlab Signal Processing Toolbox is required):
%   Access is through : DataViewer -> Basic Processing -> Filter
%                       A new GUI is created and offers the possibility to 
%                                 - bandpass filter data using a zero-phase filter
%                                 - for EEG : move to average-reference potentials, once bad channels were removed
% - Fixed bug when importing from CTF markers: some time clipping may occur
% when requested time window about a marker occurence would end up having
% an edge outisde the trial time limits. A message is now issued within
% DS2BRAINSTORM stating that time clipping has occured and related event
% data files have now a Time variable with proper length
% - Fixed bug in 2D layout measures display: DataViewer -> DataViewing ->
% 2D layout
% - EXTRACT_CHANNELS: Fixed bug for CTF computation when first MEG channel containing coef
%                 correction information is declared as BAD: store coef
%                 information in first good MEG channel and trim number of
%                 lines of correction matrix to proper number of good MEG
%                 channels only (crucial when running RAP_MUSIC estimation).
% - Minor change to DataViewer GUI layout : direct access to Averager and
% and Filter
% - Moved obsolete code to Archive:
%    [filter_win.m and .mat] + [mri_scan_params.fig and .m] + [waves_multi.m and
%    .mat]
% 
% 08-July-2004
%
% - Fixed miscellaneous file access issues encountered under Linux (e.g. during data import)
%
% 07-July-2004
%
% - Fixed uicontext menu bug under Linux in DATA_MANAGER: could not load
%   data using right click.
% - Fixed minor SUBJECT_EDITOR bugs: 
%        .new values for field entries of the
%        subject file are now properly displayed at once when user click on 'save'
%        button;
%        .Date of Modification field is automatically set to current day's date when subject file is updated 
%        .Anatomy-> Import now properly calls BST_MRIVIEWER (was still calling older MRITool)
%
% 06-July-2004
%
% - Import raw MRI: Axial/Sagittal/Coronal pulldown menu switch is now
%   operative.
%
% 21-June-2004
%
% - Baillet Release 2 now available in Paris, France. Mom and baby daughter
%   doing very well, Dad and older brother very happy.
%
% - Added locked-view Zoom feature to MRIViewer:
%        .Go to View -> Zoom : extends Matlab's zoom feature in a single
%        view by automatically adjusting axes limits to the other 2
%        orthogonal views.
%
% - Change of colormap in MRIViewer GUI (bst_mriviewer.fig): 
%        . Menu -> View -> Change Colormap : calls Matlab's 6.5 Colormap Editor
%
% - Ensured that all figures by default are set with handle visibility "on"
% - Added routine "find_mfiles", called from the command line that reverse
%   engineers the m-files that open a particular figure
% - Added figure names to some of the Data Viewer outputs
% - Added Matlab default file menus to the Time Series and Topography of the MRI
%   Viewer, to the Data Time Series of the Data Viewer output.
%
% 16-June-2004
%
% - Added AVIPLAYER in PublicToolbox (create / save and playback AVI movies directly within BrainStorm's dataViewer)
% - User can alter/load and save custom colormaps using interaction with
% COLORMAPEDITOR (Matlab 6.5 and greater only)
% - Fixed bugs in loading raw data as to the DataType
% - Fixed bug in tesselation tool listing the EEG channel names for alignment
% - Minor alignment of MRI Viewer when reusing
% - Bug when viewing more than seven sources in bst_wavedata_display fixed.
% 
% 15-June-2004
%
% Fixed calls to overlapping-sphere forward modelling (MEG and EEG)
% 
%
% 14-June-2004
%
% Fixed setting of analysis time window in RAP-MUSIC 
%    - now properly updates the display time window in Viewer
%    - signal subspace statistics automatically update once a new time
%      window is defined
% Fixed bug in assignement of empty Anatomy and Tesselation fields in
%   subject editor
%
% Renamed Phantom/SampleRaw data to be of type "Mixed", added how to load text
%   file, added brainstormstudy.mat file for convenience, changed "type" button
%   to have more explicit directions on whether the sample data are homogeneous
%   or of mixed types.
%
% Added similar how_to_load file to the Phantom/montreal_data folder.
%
% Updated Matlab bug information on the Forum pages, added info on unzipping.
%
% 11-June-2004
% 
% Added Help menu item for reporting bugs to the Forum
% Fixed bad link in Help menu for Local Web Pages
% Added this What's New feature as readme.m file in the toolbox
% Added categories to the BrainStorm Forum pages

%<autobegin> ---------------------- 23-Sep-2004 10:37:23 -----------------------
% --------- Automatically Generated Comments Block Using AUTO_COMMENTS ---------
%
% CATEGORY: Help
%
% At Check-in: $Author: Mosher $  $Revision: 27 $  $Date: 9/23/04 8:59a $
%
% This software is part of BrainStorm Toolbox Version 2.0 (Alpha) 23-Sep-2004
% 
% Principal Investigators and Developers:
% ** Richard M. Leahy, PhD, Signal & Image Processing Institute,
%    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
% ** John C. Mosher, PhD, Biophysics Group,
%    Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
% ** Sylvain Baillet, PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience & Brain Imaging Laboratory,
%    CNRS, Hopital de la Salpetriere, Paris, France
% 
% See BrainStorm website at http://neuroimage.usc.edu for further information.
% 
% Copyright (c) 2004 BrainStorm by the University of Southern California
% This software distributed  under the terms of the GNU General Public License
% as published by the Free Software Foundation. Further details on the GPL
% license can be found at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html .
% 
% FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS," AND THE
% UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND ITS COLLABORATORS DO NOT MAKE ANY
% WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF
% MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NOR DO THEY ASSUME ANY
% LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
%<autoend> ------------------------ 23-Sep-2004 10:37:23 -----------------------


% ----------------------------- Script History ---------------------------------
% JCM 11-Jun-2004  Began this file. Just add comments above for BrainStorm
%                  improvements. Add each new revision to the TOP of the pile,
%                  so that is what the user first sees in the help window.
% ----------------------------- Script History ---------------------------------

% The filename "readme.m" is a special filename in Matlab, accessed by
% "whatsnew"
% or "info" commands, but mostly deprecated. We'll simply call it with a helpwin
% function.

helpwin(mfilename)