pyActigraphy, a toolbox for actigraphy data analysis

[ghammad]

Title

pyActigraphy, a toolbox for actigraphy data analysis

Presentor and Affiliation

Grégory Hammad¹

Collaborators

Mathilde Reyt¹, Michele Deantoni¹, Christophe Phillips¹, Christina Schmidt^1,2, Vincenzo Muto^1,2

1. GIGA-CRC in vivo Imaging, University of Liège, Belgium
2. Psychology and Neurosciences of Cognition (PsyNCog), Faculty of Psychology, University of Liège, Belgium

Github Link (if applicable)
Source code: https://github.com/ghammad/pyActigraphy
Documentation: https://ghammad.github.io/pyActigraphy/index.html

Abstract (max. 200 words):
Brain structure and the physical or locomotor activity. Whether it is the total amount of activity [1], the sleep fragmentation or the integrity of the circadian rhythmicity, these effects must be taken into account, as they can be of equivalent (or even greater) importance as the usual demographic covariates, such as the age. In addition, human brain functions are modulated by circadian and/or seasonal rhythmicity. As a matter of fact, the only practical way to assess, in-situ, the physical activity or the circadian rhythmicity over a period of several days is to use actigraphy.
pyActigraphy is an open source python package for actigraphy data visualization and analysis. It is supported by an extensive online documentation of its functionalities. It also integrates the best practices in terms of developments, such as continuous integration tests. It is thus the perfect companion toolkit for any brain imaging study.

Preferred Session
Oral session: 3. Demo: New advances in open neuroimaging methods
Lightning talk: 1. Neuroscience toolkit

Additional Context

[TimVanMourik]

Hi @ghammad, I’m happy to tell you that we’d like to host your presentation as a lightning talk in the OSR in the neuroscience toolkit session. This will be a talk of 5 minutes + 5 minutes of questions. We’ll update the program in the ReadMe.md shortly. We’d much appreciate it if you could submit slides and other presentation material to the presentations folder by means of a Pull Request to this repository, preferably but not necessarily before the presentation.

[ghammad]

Hi @TimVanMourik. Wonderful. Thanks for the opportunity. I will PR with my material asap.