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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience Volume 2011, Article ID 598206, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2011/598206 Research Article fMRI Artefact Rejection and Sleep Scoring Toolbox Yves Leclercq,1 Jessica Schrouff,1 Quentin Noirhomme,1 Pierre Maquet,1, 2 and Christophe Phillips1, 3 1 Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Li`ege, 4000 Li`ege, Belgium 2 Department of Neurology, University of Li`ege, 4000 Li`ege, Belgium 3 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Li`ege, 4000 Li`ege, Belgium Correspondence should be addressed to Christophe Phillips, c.phillips@ulg.ac.be Received 30 August 2010; Revised 2 December 2010; Accepted 17 January 2011 Academic Editor: Sylvain Baillet Copyright © 2011 Yves Leclercq et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We started writing the “fMRI artefact rejection and sleep scoring toolbox”, or “FAST”, to process our sleep EEG-fMRI data, that is, the simultaneous recording of electroencephalographic and functional magnetic resonance imaging data acquired while a subject is asleep. FAST tackles three crucial issues typical of this kind of data: (1) data manipulation (viewing, comparing, chunking, etc.) of long continuous M/EEG recordings, (2) rejection of the fMRI-induced artefact in the EEG signal, and (3) manual sleep-scoring of the M/EEG recording. Currently, the toolbox can efficiently deal with these issues via a GUI, SPM8 batching system or hand- written script. The tools developed are, of course, also useful for other EEG applications, for example, involving simultaneous EEG-fMRI acquisition,