Minimizing bugs in cognitive neuroscience programming

Frontiers in Psychology

Vadim Axelrod¹ 

关键词: programming;    bugs;    code quality;    minimizing errors;    code testing;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01435

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Consider a case of an fMRI data analysis, where a researcher needs to calculate an average level of activation (e.g., z-score) for the predefined regions of interest (ROIs). The code logic goes as follows: (1) iterate over ROI files, and get the coordinates for each ROI; (2) for each voxel in the ROI, retrieve its z-score value; and (3) average values across ROIs' voxels, and store all the results in a table. Please see the code sample 1 in Box 1.

【 授权许可】

CC BY