How to configure the 3dsvm plugin for real-time experiments using plugout_drive: =============================================================================== plugout_drive is a command-line program that can be used to drive (control) AFNI (please see README.driver for more details) and allows the user to automate the configuration of the 3dsvm plugin for real-time experiments. Using plugout_drive to set up the 3dsvm plugin for real-time experiments is very similar to the usage of the command-line program 3dsvm for off-line SVM analysis. Most of the 3dsvm (and SVM-Light) command-line options can be used in conjunction with plugout_drive. Usage: ------ plugout_drive -com '3DSVM [options]' Examples: --------- Training: plugout_drive -com '3DSVM -rt_train -trainlabels run1_categories.1D ... -mask mask+orig -model model_run1' Testing: plugout_drive -com '3DSVM -rt_test -model model_run1+orig ... -stim_ip 111.222.333.444 -stim_port 5000' N.B.: -rt_train and -rt_test serve as flags for the real-time training and testing modes, respectively. No brik or nifti file is specified since it is expected from the scanner (or rtfeedme). Options: -------- N.B. The plugout_drive options are almost identical to the "normal" 3dsvm usage, (see 3dsvm -help) but restricted to 2-class classification and regression. Coming soon (or someday when asked): multi-class classification Reference: LaConte, S., Strother, S., Cherkassky, V. and Hu, X. 2005. Support vector machines for temporal classification of block design fMRI data. NeuroImage, 26, 317-329. Specific to real-time fMRI: S. M. LaConte. (2011). Decoding fMRI brain states in real-time. NeuroImage, 56:440-54. S. M. LaConte, S. J. Peltier, and X. P. Hu. (2007). Real-time fMRI using brain-state classification. Hum Brain Mapp, 208:1033–1044. Please also consider to reference: T. Joachims, Making Large-Scale SVM Learning Practical. Advances in Kernel Methods - Support Vector Learning, B. Schoelkopf and C. Burges and A. Smola (ed.), MIT Press, 1999. RW Cox. AFNI: Software for analysis and visualization of functional magnetic resonance neuroimages. Computers and Biomedical Research, 29:162-173, 1996.