DBScope as a versatile computational toolbox for the visualization and analysis of sensing data from deep brain stimulation

DBScope is described in the following paper published in npj Parkinson's Disease:

Oliveira AM*, Carvalho E*, Barros B, Soares C, Ferreira-Pinto MJ, Vaz R, Aguiar P., DBScope as a versatile computational toolbox for the visualization and analysis of sensing data from deep brain stimulation. npj Parkinson's Disease. 2024 Jul 15;10(1):132.

(* equal contribution)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41531-024-00740-z

Core maintainers: Eduardo Carvalho*, Pedro Melo*, Andreia M Oliveira, Paulo Aguiar

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DBScope version 0.5, 27.04.2026

• Added parser for ProgrammerVersions up to 5.0.839.
• Chronic data plotting and analyses can now use more than 4 events (parsed by unique EventID).

DBScope version 0.4, 04.07.2025

• Added parser for ProgrammerVersion 5.0.676.
• Added some fail-safes and corrected minor bugs on the plotted VisualizationWindows.
• Corrected hemisphere mislabeling problem in some files (where hemisphere order in json is right-left).
• Corrected error where Setup ON and OFF would only show data from first run.

DBScope version 0.3, 02.07.2024

• Group history is now stored.
• Missing samples of streaming recordings are now automatically corrected by parser.
• Parsing functions were renamed for consistency.

DBScope version 0.2, 03.05.2024

• Minor correction in applyFilt_ordered.m function.

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Neuroengineering and Computational Neuroscience (NCN) Lab,

i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde

Porto, Portugal

Contact: pauloaguiar@i3s.up.pt

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For more information regarding the structure of the toolbox, workflows and case-studies, please check the paper published in npj Parkinson's Disease: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41531-024-00740-z

For more information regarding the use of the toolbox, please refer to the USER GUIDE and DEMO VIDEO, available in the Github page.

https://github.com/NCN-Lab/DBScope

Note for MATLAB users:

Before running the toolbox, add the DBScope folder (with subfolders) to the MATLAB's search path.