[Neuroimaging] [ANN] MNE-Python 0.21

[Satrajit Ghosh]

nice work folks! glad to continue to see the vibrant nipy ecosystem.

cheers,

satra

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 9:53 AM Alexandre Gramfort <
alexandre.gramfort at inria.fr> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
>
> We are very pleased to announce the new 0.21 release of MNE-Python!
>
>
>
> A few highlights
>
> ============
>
>
> Visualization
>
>    -
>
>    Mixed and volume source estimates can now be visualized in 3D with
>    volumetric rendering.
>    -
>
>    Added support for plotting cortex “flat maps”.
>    -
>
>    3D rendering in Jupyter notebooks thanks to a new backend.
>    -
>
>    PyVista is now the default 3D backend. Mayavi is no longer required
>    (except for coregistration).
>    -
>
>    Added support for plotting of covariance topomaps.
>    -
>
>    Improvements to 3D dipole plotting with MRI overlay.
>
>
> Preprocessing
>
>    -
>
>    Added support for eSSS.
>    -
>
>    Automated muscle artifact detection.
>    -
>
>    ICA.find_bads_ecg() can now automatically determine the threshold for
>    the CTPS method.
>
>
> EEG
>
>    -
>
>    Added support for the Reference Electrode Standardization Technique
>    (REST) infinity reference.
>
>
> fNIRS
>
>    -
>
>    Various improvements to visualization and processing of fNIRS data.
>
>
> Data reading
>
>    -
>
>    The new function mne.io.read_raw() automatically selects to correct
>    reader based on the provided filename
>    -
>
>    Support reading of Persyst data format
>    -
>
>    Support reading of Nihon Kohden data format
>    -
>
>    Support reading of SNIRF data format
>
>
> Notable API changes
>
> ================
>
>    -
>
>    The function mne.preprocessing.mark_flat has been deprecated in favor
>    of mne.preprocessing.annotate_flat() to increase API consistency: we now
>    have annotate_flat(), annotate_movement(), and annotate_muscle_zscore().
>    -
>
>    The default argument meg=True in mne.pick_types() will change to
>    meg=False in version 0.22. Please be sure to update your code.
>
>
> Python 3.6+ is now required
>
> =====================
>
> This release drops support for Python versions before 3.6. Python 3.6 was
> released almost 4 years ago, and removing support for earlier versions
> allows us to take advantage of some new, helpful language features.
>
>
> Full changelog
>
> ===========
>
> For a full list of improvements and API changes, see:
>
> https://mne.tools/stable/whats_new.html#version-0-21
>
>
> Find the full documentation at https://mne.tools/
> <https://mne.tools/stable/index.html>
>
>
> Installing the new release
>
> ===================
>
>
> Since quite a few things – including dependencies – have changed, we
> recommend creating a new environment with a “fresh” installation. Please
> follow the installation instructions on our website:
>
> https://mne.tools/stable/install/mne_python.html
>
>
> Feedback
>
> ========
>
>
> As usual, we welcome your bug reports, feature requests, critiques, and
> contributions. Development takes place on GitHub. If you would like to
> contribute, star the project, or just take a peek at the code, visit
> https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python.
>
>
> You may follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mne_news
>
>
> We hope you will enjoy the new features and many, many small improvements
> we have added, and are looking forward to receiving your feedback.
>
>
> Stay safe and take care!
>
>
> The MNE-Python developers
>
>
>
> Contributors
>
> ==========
>
> MNE-Python is a community-driven project. We are always very happy to
> welcome new contributors of code and documentation! 41 people contributed
> to this release, and 11 of them contributed for the very first time – thank
> you so much for your time and effort, we truly appreciate it!
>
>
> This is the list of contributors in alphabetical order (first-time
> contributors marked with a “+”):
>
>
>
>    -
>
>    Adam Li
>    -
>
>    Adonay Nunes
>    -
>
>    Alejandro Weinstein
>    -
>
>    Alex Rockhill
>    -
>
>    Alexandre Gramfort
>    -
>
>    Anton Nikolas Waniek
>    -
>
>    Britta Westner
>    -
>
>    Christian O'Reilly
>    -
>
>    Clemens Brunner
>    -
>
>    Daniel McCloy
>    -
>
>    Eric Larson
>    -
>
>    Evgenii Kalenkovich
>    -
>
>    Fede Raimondo
>    -
>
>    Guillaume Favelier
>    -
>
>    Hubert Banville
>    -
>
>    Jeroen Van Der Donckt +
>    -
>
>    Johann Benerradi +
>    -
>
>    Kyle Mathewson +
>    -
>
>    Lau Møller Andersen +
>    -
>
>    Liberty Hamilton +
>    -
>
>    Luke Bloy
>    -
>
>    Lx37 +
>    -
>
>    Mainak Jas
>    -
>
>    Marijn van Vliet
>    -
>
>    Martin Billinger
>    -
>
>    Martin Schulz +
>    -
>
>    Martin van Harmelen
>    -
>
>    Mikolaj Magnuski
>    -
>
>    Olaf Hauk
>    -
>
>    Rahul Nadkarni +
>    -
>
>    Richard Höchenberger
>    -
>
>    Robert Luke
>    -
>
>    Sara Sommariva
>    -
>
>    Simeon Wong +
>    -
>
>    Stefan Appelhoff
>    -
>
>    Steven Bierer +
>    -
>
>    Svea Marie Meyer +
>    -
>
>    Teon Brooks
>    -
>
>    Thomas Hartmann
>    -
>
>    Yu-Han Luo
>    -
>
>    chapochn
>    -
>
>    mshader
>
>
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