From sangita.dandekar at GMAIL.COM Fri Oct 1 18:00:41 2010 From: sangita.dandekar at GMAIL.COM (Sangita Dandekar) Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:00:41 -0400 Subject: baseline, combine_planar, and freqanalysis Message-ID: Hi, I'm wondering about the optimal order in which to apply combine_planar and baselining (relative to a pretrial time window) to time-frequency power spectra data. Does it make more sense to do: A: 1. meg_planar 2. freqanalysis 3. combine_planar 4. freqbaseline (on a trial by trial basis? see below) or B: 1. meg_planar 2. freqanalysis 3. freqbaseline(on a trial by trial basis? see below) 4. combine_planar Also, are there any opinions on whether baselining on a trial by trial basis is preferable o if it might be better to instead baseline with respect to the average of all pretrial baseline power spectra? Thanks in advance, Sangi ---------------------------------- The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From e.maris at DONDERS.RU.NL Fri Oct 1 21:10:09 2010 From: e.maris at DONDERS.RU.NL (Eric Maris) Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 21:10:09 +0200 Subject: coherence and inter-trial coherence questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Matteo, I have two questions regarding statistical tests: first one regarding coherence differences, second one pertaining testing inter-trial coherence. We are analysing MEG data from an auditory experiment with 5 subjects. We considered the deviant stimulus as the only stimulus in the recordings, while the standard one was considered as baseline activity. We analysed the TFR data in both designs: within-trial and within-subject using respectively "actvsblT" and "depsamplesT" statistics. In both cases we compared a time interval extracted from the baseline versus a time interval from the deviant stimulus response. We wish to assess coherence differences using "indepsampleZcoh" statistic in both single-subject and multiple-subject cases. In a previous post Dr. Maris replied that this statistic only works in a between-trial design (for single-subject case) and suggested to compare the different conditions as they were un-paired. We exploited this idea for the single-subject case and we would like to know if it is legitimate to extend the same idea for the multiple-subject situation? In the multiple-subject situation, you should first calculate the two coherences (one for the deviant stimulus and one for the baseline condition) for every subject. These coherences should be compared using depsamplesT (and not using indepsamplesZcoh, which only works for a single-subject study). I'm fairly sure that the testing of coherence in a multiple subject study has already been addressed in the Fieldtrip discussion list. I think it was Jan-Matthijs Schoffelen who gave a extensive description on how to do it. Furthermore we would like to know if there is a way to test inter-trial coherence differences in Fieldtrip? In a previous post Stephan suggested how to deal with the problem; is it already implemented? If it has been implemented, I'm not aware of it. However, if you are a little bit proficient in Matlab programming, you can write you own statfun and have Fieldtrip apply it to your data. By debugging a statistical analysis that uses a built-in statfun, you can learn how the algorithm works. 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Else, if you subtract amplitudes or power values per spatial direction separately a relatively uninterpretable quantity (because spatial angles between task and baseline would play a major role) results after combineplanar. This is because of the effect of different gradient field angles between task and baseline. So the only viable way seems to be to correct after combineplanar. The implicit assumptions then is however, that source configuration (orientation) does not change between task and baseline, this should be justified/discussed for the case at hand. This problem does not occur for axial quantities as there is no loss of spatial information there. Hope this helps, please also let me know if you (or anyone else) disagrees! Michael PS: If anyone knows how to quantify spectral power of *arbitrary time varying vector fields* (not linearly or circularily polarized ones) uniquely and without assumptions on correlations between vector components please post it to the list. --------------------- Von: "Sangita Dandekar" Gesendet: Oct 5, 2010 1:56:32 PM An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL Betreff: [FIELDTRIP] baseline, combine_planar, and freqanalysis Thought I'd try reposting once, since I happened to send this on a weekend and didn't receive any reply. Sorry for the repost. Thanks, Sangi ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sangita Dandekar <[sangita.dandekar at gmail.com]> Date: Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:00 PM Subject: baseline, combine_planar, and freqanalysis To: FieldTrip discussion list <[FIELDTRIP at nic.surfnet.nl]> Hi, I'm wondering about the optimal order in which to apply combine_planar and baselining (relative to a pretrial time window) to time-frequency power spectra data. Does it make more sense to do: A: 1. meg_planar 2. freqanalysis 3. combine_planar 4. freqbaseline (on a trial by trial basis? see below) or B: 1. meg_planar 2. freqanalysis 3. freqbaseline(on a trial by trial basis? see below) 4. combine_planar Also, are there any opinions on whether baselining on a trial by trial basis is preferable or if it might be better to instead baseline with respect to the average of all pretrial baseline power spectra? Thanks in advance, Sangi --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. 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See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From akiko at NYU.EDU Mon Oct 11 00:54:28 2010 From: akiko at NYU.EDU (Akiko Ikkai) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:54:28 -0400 Subject: plotting plv In-Reply-To: <1704750977.1475589.1286480070322.JavaMail.fmail@mwmweb056> Message-ID: Hi, I'm trying to plot plv between channel pairs that I get from ft_connectivityanalysis. when I run cfg = []; cfg.xparam = 'time'; cfg.yparam = 'freq'; cfg.zparam = 'cohsprctm'; % need to run stat.cohsprctm = stat.plvspctrm; % fixed in the latest version? cfg.cohrefchannel = '1'; cfg.layout = 'ordered'; cfg.showlabels = 'yes'; cfg.colorbar = 'yes'; figure; ft_multiplotTFR(cfg, stat) I get this error: ft_multiplotTFR(cfg, stat) ??? Index exceeds matrix dimensions. Error in ==> ft_multiplotTFR at 242 datavector = data.(cfg.zparam)(seldat,yidc,xidc); ... I'm guessing the error is something like wrong channel combination or refchannel selection, but not able to locate where the error is coming from (have tried different channel combination). stat.dimord is "chan_chan_freq_time", which might not be formatted appropriately for ft_multiplotTFR...? Below, I'm attaching the code used to get "stat" (plv). Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! Akiko %%%%% code for connectivityanalysis %%%%%% cfg = []; cfg.output ='fourier'; % instead of 'powandcsd'... fixed in the latest version? cfg.method = 'mtmconvol'; cfg.channel = {'1', '7', '120'}; % contra & unrelated channels to test cfg.channelcmb = {'1' '7'; '1' '120'; '7', '120'}; cfg.keeptrials = 'yes'; cfg.keeptapers = 'no'; cfg.toi = [-.8:.1:2] cfg.foi = [1:0.5:30]; cfg.taper = 'hanning'; cfg.t_ftimwin = zeros(1,length(cfg.foi)); cfg.t_ftimwin(:) = 5./cfg.foi; TFR = ft_freqanalysis(cfg, ft_data); cfg=[]; cfg.method = 'plv'; [stat] = ft_connectivityanalysis(cfg, TFR); --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL Mon Oct 11 09:17:29 2010 From: jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL (jan-mathijs schoffelen) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:17:29 +0200 Subject: plotting plv In-Reply-To: <5a40df8d99c3d.4cb20be4@mail.nyu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Akiko, A small comment first: there's a type in the naming of your zparam 'cohsprctm' should probably read 'cohspctrm', but I don't think that this is the show stopper. Next, I guess that given your configuration for ft_freqanalysis, the eventual output of ft_connectivityanalysis is a 3x3xNfreqxNtime - matrix containing plv-values. Is that correct? I do not understand why the visualization fails, but it seems that the correct part of the code is not reached. Could you save the variable 'stat' to a file and upload it to our ftp- server, so that we can reproduce your bug. Recently we spent quite some time in streamlining the visualisation for this type of data and I am pretty sure that in your case it just should work. Please have a look at http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/faq/how_should_i_send_example_data_to_the_developers to upload your data. Best, Jan-Mathijs On Oct 11, 2010, at 12:54 AM, Akiko Ikkai wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to plot plv between channel pairs that I get from > ft_connectivityanalysis. > > when I run > cfg = []; > cfg.xparam = 'time'; > cfg.yparam = 'freq'; > cfg.zparam = 'cohsprctm'; % need to run stat.cohsprctm = > stat.plvspctrm; > % fixed in the > latest version? > cfg.cohrefchannel = '1'; > cfg.layout = 'ordered'; > cfg.showlabels = 'yes'; > cfg.colorbar = 'yes'; > figure; ft_multiplotTFR(cfg, stat) > > I get this error: > ft_multiplotTFR(cfg, stat) > ??? Index exceeds matrix dimensions. > > Error in ==> ft_multiplotTFR at 242 > datavector = data.(cfg.zparam)(seldat,yidc,xidc); > > > ... I'm guessing the error is something like wrong channel > combination or refchannel selection, but not able to locate where > the error is coming from (have tried different channel combination). > stat.dimord is "chan_chan_freq_time", which might not be formatted > appropriately for ft_multiplotTFR...? Below, I'm attaching the code > used to get "stat" (plv). > > Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! Akiko > > > %%%%% code for connectivityanalysis %%%%%% > cfg = []; > cfg.output ='fourier'; % instead of 'powandcsd'... fixed in the > latest version? > cfg.method = 'mtmconvol'; > cfg.channel = {'1', '7', '120'}; % contra & unrelated channels to test > cfg.channelcmb = {'1' '7'; '1' '120'; '7', '120'}; > cfg.keeptrials = 'yes'; > cfg.keeptapers = 'no'; > cfg.toi = [-.8:.1:2] > cfg.foi = [1:0.5:30]; > cfg.taper = 'hanning'; > cfg.t_ftimwin = zeros(1,length(cfg.foi)); > cfg.t_ftimwin(:) = 5./cfg.foi; > TFR = ft_freqanalysis(cfg, ft_data); > > cfg=[]; > cfg.method = 'plv'; > [stat] = ft_connectivityanalysis(cfg, TFR); > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the > discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From michael.wibral at WEB.DE Mon Oct 11 12:16:33 2010 From: michael.wibral at WEB.DE (Michael Wibral) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:16:33 +0200 Subject: one sided or two sided testing In-Reply-To: <015801cb66f3$2a6ec660$7f4c5320$@maris@donders.ru.nl> Message-ID: Dear Emanual, just a comment on the posts below. 'Prior' knowledge should come from independent data - e.g. collected in a different experiment or from another finding in the literature. It's best if you find some prior knowledge that you can *CITE* - otherwise it'll typically get pretty difficult to publish your one-sided test. I guess you knew this already (so please do not feel insulted by this post), just wanted to save you the trouble with reviewers in the very unlikely event that you didn't. Good luck for your study, Michael -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: "Eric Maris" Gesendet: Oct 8, 2010 4:14:43 PM An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL Betreff: Re: [FIELDTRIP] one sided or two sided testing >Dear Emanuel, > > >> If you have prior knowledge that the ERP is to be expected to be lower >> in one >> group as compared to the other group of subjects is it then allowed to >> only >> test the positive T-sum clusters (alpha 0.05) and neglect the negative >> clusters? > >Yes, this is allowed. Such a procedure controls the false alarm rate at >0.05. > > >Best, > >Eric Maris > > > >> >> Thank you in advance, >> Best, Emanuel >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >> the FieldTrip list. 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Index exceeds matrix dimensions. > > Error in ==> ft_multiplotTFR at 242 > datavector = data.(cfg.zparam)(seldat,yidc,xidc); > > > ... I'm guessing the error is something like wrong channel combination or refchannel selection, but not able to locate where the error is coming from (have tried different channel combination). stat.dimord is "chan_chan_freq_time", which might not be formatted appropriately for ft_multiplotTFR...? Below, I'm attaching the code used to get "stat" (plv). > > Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! Akiko > > > %%%%% code for connectivityanalysis %%%%%% > cfg = []; > cfg.output ='fourier'; % instead of 'powandcsd'... fixed in the latest version? > cfg.method = 'mtmconvol'; > cfg.channel = {'1', '7', '120'}; % contra & unrelated channels to test > cfg.channelcmb = {'1' '7'; '1' '120'; '7', '120'}; > cfg.keeptrials = 'yes'; > cfg.keeptapers = 'no'; > cfg.toi = [-.8:.1:2] > cfg.foi = [1:0.5:30]; > cfg.taper = 'hanning'; > cfg.t_ftimwin = zeros(1,length(cfg.foi)); > cfg.t_ftimwin(:) = 5./cfg.foi; > TFR = ft_freqanalysis(cfg, ft_data); > > cfg=[]; > cfg.method = 'plv'; > [stat] = ft_connectivityanalysis(cfg, TFR); > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. 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See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From michael.wibral at WEB.DE Fri Oct 15 16:08:09 2010 From: michael.wibral at WEB.DE (Michael Wibral) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:08:09 +0200 Subject: specifying individual lateralization in sourcestatistic In-Reply-To: <4CB85780.3000805@uni-konstanz.de> Message-ID: Hi Thomas, I suggest you simply extract the power values from the results of sourceanalysis (or t-values if you already did a fisrt level statistics) and average them by hand in MATLAB - as ROI is known for each subject this should be easy (you have to extract the values by the voxel indices contained in your ROI. These in turn you can find in interactive mode source plotting if everything else fails). This way you end up with a single value per subject and condition. Afterwards you do a simple permutation test by hand in MATLAB. ((The test for two conditions for example can be done this way: 1. concatenate all data in a vector D first data in one condition, then in the other) 2. compute your test metric between first and second half of D. 3. shuffle the entries of D: DS=D(randperm(length(D)); % creates a new D with shuffled entries by shuffling the indexes of the old one 4. compute your test metric for DS and remember it 5. Do 3+4 N times (e.g. >1901 times for accurate testing at alpha<0.05) 6. check where your original test metric obtained from D is in the distribution of the mtrices obtained from the DS.)) Hope this helps, Michael -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: "Thomas Hartmann" Gesendet: Oct 15, 2010 3:30:40 PM An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL Betreff: [FIELDTRIP] specifying individual lateralization in sourcestatistic > hi, >i want to do a roi analysis on source data and average over the all the >voxels. the problem is that i am dealing with a lateralized effect that >i expect to show up either on the left or the right side of the same >structure. this lateralization is individual for each subject and known >a priori. >is there any possibility to individually define, which side to take into >account for the statistics? > >thanks in advance, >thomas > >-- >Dipl. Psych. Thomas Hartmann > >OBOB-Lab >University of Konstanz >Department of Psychology >P.O. Box D25 >78457 Konstanz >Germany > >Tel.: +49 (0)7531 88 4612 >Fax: +49 (0)7531-88 4601 >Email: thomas.hartmann at uni-konstanz.de >Homepage: http://www.uni-konstanz.de/obob > >"I am a brain, Watson. 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See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From r.vandermeij at DONDERS.RU.NL Tue Oct 19 09:49:04 2010 From: r.vandermeij at DONDERS.RU.NL (Roemer van der Meij) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:49:04 +0200 Subject: plot rotated in 20101011 version In-Reply-To: <56f083dcec122.4cbc3d24@mail.nyu.edu> Message-ID: Hi Akiko, Is everything rotated, i.e. the interpolated data, the channels and the head shape/contours or only one of these? Best, Roemer Quoting Akiko Ikkai : > Hello, > > I downloaded 20101011 version, and found that ft_clusterplot, > ft_multiplotTFR plot images 90 degrees counter-clockwise (I only > tried these commands, but it's possible that other plot fxns do the > same). I ran the same codes with older versions and plots are fine. > Could someone let me know if versions later than 20101011 behave the > same (i.e. is this a new change that we should be aware of when > plotting, or a bug in this version)? > > Thanks in advance, Akiko > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Roemer van der Meij MSc PhD student Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Centre for Cognition P.O. 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I solved this issue by adding a rotate option in the cfg as following: cfg=[]; cfg.rotate=90; cfg.elec = mydata.elec; lay = ft_prepare_layout(cfg); Hope this helps, Rodolphe Nenert, Ph.D. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From akiko at NYU.EDU Wed Oct 20 01:55:08 2010 From: akiko at NYU.EDU (Akiko Ikkai) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:55:08 -0400 Subject: plot rotated in 20101011 version In-Reply-To: <20101019094904.t3oo09c2sk4kwwc0@www.socsci.ru.nl> Message-ID: Hi Roemer, It appears that interpolated data and contours in clusterplot/topoplot, and channel layout in multiplotTFR are rotated, but not the head outline. In my MEG data, data toward nose is displayed over the left ear on outline (90 degrees counter clockwise). If cfg.layout = 'ordered' is used, each channels are plotted accordingly, and within each channel, there is no rotation. singleplotTFR also plots normal. As Dr. Nenert suggested, I could correct for it with ft_prepare_layout, but it'd be nice to have this problem solved. Alternatively, I could download slightly older version of fieldtrip (assuming this rotation was introduced just recently), but I'd like to use the version that's spm8 compatible. Could you let me know how far back that would be (sometime in July 2010, I think)? Thank you for your time! Akiko ----- Original Message ----- From: Roemer van der Meij Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:49 am Subject: Re: [FIELDTRIP] plot rotated in 20101011 version To: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL > Hi Akiko, > > Is everything rotated, i.e. the interpolated data, the channels and > the head shape/contours or only one of these? > > Best, > Roemer > > > > Quoting Akiko Ikkai : > > > Hello, > > > > I downloaded 20101011 version, and found that ft_clusterplot, > > ft_multiplotTFR plot images 90 degrees counter-clockwise (I only > > tried these commands, but it's possible that other plot fxns do the > > > same). I ran the same codes with older versions and plots are fine. > > > Could someone let me know if versions later than 20101011 behave the > > > same (i.e. is this a new change that we should be aware of when > > plotting, or a bug in this version)? > > > > Thanks in advance, Akiko > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion > > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > -- > Roemer van der Meij MSc > PhD student > Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour > Centre for Cognition > P.O. 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So 'true' cluster membership of a certain electrode/timepoint/frequency is not statistically 'guaranteed'. Additional tests would be necessary. Then one thing that this argument does not account for is that 'accidentally neighbouring a cluster' is not so likely because of the smoothness of MEEG data - but I do not know at the moment how you could exploit this. This is well formulated. The null hypothesis that is tested by the cluster-based permutation tests involves that the spatiotemporal biological data in the experimental conditions that are being compared are drawn from the same probability distribution. They are NOT testing null hypotheses of the following type: there is no difference between the conditions at channel A and time point T whereas there may be differences at other (channel, time point) pairs. In fact, such null hypotheses do not make much sense when dealing with electrophysiological data because (a) because of volume conduction, spatially localized effects are not plausible, and (2) because neurophysiological processes are not instantaneous, highly temporally localized effect are not plausible either. Best, Eric Maris Michael _____ Von: Rodolphe Gesendet: Oct 20, 2010 12:49:06 AM An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL Betreff: [FIELDTRIP] Cluster change over time Dear Fieldtrip users, I used the Monte-Carlo method with cluster correction to compare two conditions within the same group of subjects. I didnt average over time, thus the clusterplot showed several topographic plot of the cluster that was found to be significant. I can see that this cluster evolves over time (number and place of significant electrodes highlighted). 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URL: From batrod at GMAIL.COM Fri Oct 22 01:47:43 2010 From: batrod at GMAIL.COM (Rodolphe) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:47:43 -0500 Subject: Coherence and dipole Message-ID: Dear Fieldtrip users, I recently run a coherence analysis on my data and i plotted a beautiful Topographic plot showing a strong coherence between one electrode in left parietal ( P5) and some right frontal electrodes. The thing is, when i try with the right parietal equivalent ( P6 ) then i find a coherence with left frontal. Ans so on with a couple of other electrodes use as ref channels. As this symmetry looks awkward to me, is any of you have an idea of a posible artifact that can cause this, or a possible bias in the analysis? ( I tripled checked my code) Best, Rodolphe N., Ph.D. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. 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Yet, for the gradiometer subset data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a bad channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead to averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal orientation. In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the noise (because the combination step results in taking an absolute value). Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which in principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would be to only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and you would want to interpolate the data back onto the original sensor-array. An example for interpolating between two types of CTF-systems is shown here http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag software allow for similar things? Best wishes, Jan-Mathijs On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: > Hi Fieldtrippers, > > I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some > missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just > wondering whether there are any potential problems with using the > nearest neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the > Neuromag system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). > > If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing bad/ > missing channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a subset > of the channels, say the gradiometers after I run ft_combineplanar)? > > Thanks! > David > > -- > David A. Ziegler > Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 > Cambridge, MA 02139 > Tel: 617-258-0765 > Fax: 617-253-1504 > daz at mit.edu > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You > are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the > discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. J.M. 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URL: From jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL Fri Oct 22 09:04:00 2010 From: jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL (jan-mathijs schoffelen) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:04:00 +0200 Subject: Coherence and dipole In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Rodolphe, I guess you are analyzing EEG data? What reference electrode(s) did you use? Best, JM On Oct 22, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Rodolphe wrote: > Dear Fieldtrip users, > > I recently run a coherence analysis on my data and i plotted a > beautiful Topographic plot showing a strong coherence between one > electrode in left parietal ( P5) and some right frontal electrodes. > The thing is, when i try with the right parietal equivalent ( P6 ) > then i find a coherence with left frontal. Ans so on with a couple > of other electrodes use as ref channels. > As this symmetry looks awkward to me, is any of you have an idea of > a posible artifact that can cause this, or a possible bias in the > analysis? ( I tripled checked my code) > > Best, > > Rodolphe N., Ph.D. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You > are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the > discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From maess at CBS.MPG.DE Fri Oct 22 09:25:01 2010 From: maess at CBS.MPG.DE (Burkhard Maess) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:25:01 +0200 Subject: ft_channelrepair with neuromag data In-Reply-To: <0A9DF0C3-4149-4874-9E27-C095CC0654AA@donders.ru.nl> Message-ID: Dear David, I agree with Jan-Mathijs. variant a: apply maxfilter - that will repair all broken channels. You also can manually define certain channels as broken. Maxfilter may also align data of different headpositions to a single position. variant b: use megrealign - it includes a minimum norm localization and from there MEG data is forward computed. In this way, you can repair channels, align different head positions to the same and even convert data between different systems. all the best, Burkhard jan-mathijs schoffelen wrote: > Dear David, > > This is a good point. As far as I can see from the code, no > distinction is made between gradiometers and magnetometers. > Naively, I would propose the following: first indeed split the data > into two subset: gradiometers only and magnetometers only, only then > apply the channel reparation routine. Yet, for the gradiometer subset > data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a bad > channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead to > averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal orientation. > > In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I > don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is > desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the noise > (because the combination step results in taking an absolute value). > Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which in > principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would be to > only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and you would > want to interpolate the data back onto the original sensor-array. An > example for interpolating between two types of CTF-systems is shown > here http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. > > Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag software > allow for similar things? > > Best wishes, > > Jan-Mathijs > > On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: > >> Hi Fieldtrippers, >> >> I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some >> missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just wondering >> whether there are any potential problems with using the nearest >> neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the Neuromag >> system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). >> >> If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing bad/missing >> channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a subset of the >> channels, say the gradiometers after I run ft_combineplanar)? >> >> Thanks! >> David >> >> -- >> David A. Ziegler >> Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences >> Massachusetts Institute of Technology >> 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 >> Cambridge, MA 02139 >> Tel: 617-258-0765 >> Fax: 617-253-1504 >> daz at mit.edu >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >> the FieldTrip list. 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What reference electrode(s) did >you use? > >Best, >JM > > > >On Oct 22, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Rodolphe wrote: > >> Dear Fieldtrip users, >> >> I recently run a coherence analysis on my data and i plotted a >> beautiful Topographic plot showing a strong coherence between one >> electrode in left parietal ( P5) and some right frontal electrodes. >> The thing is, when i try with the right parietal equivalent ( P6 ) >> then i find a coherence with left frontal. Ans so on with a couple >> of other electrodes use as ref channels. >> As this symmetry looks awkward to me, is any of you have an idea of >> a posible artifact that can cause this, or a possible bias in the >> analysis? ( I tripled checked my code) >> >> Best, >> >> Rodolphe N., Ph.D. >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You >> are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >> the FieldTrip list. 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See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL Mon Oct 25 12:25:32 2010 From: jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL (jan-mathijs schoffelen) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:25:32 +0200 Subject: Coherence and dipole In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Rodolphe, The problem with coherence analysis on channel level (EEG) data that widely separated electrodes can 'see' the same neuronal sources. Also, they see the same noise (as 'injected' by the choice of reference electrode, which can be a single channel, or the average across all channels). So, every channel contains an unknown mix of interesting brain signal, uninteresting brain signal, and uninteresting noise. Depending on the spatial structure of these 3 components and the way they are mixed per channel determines the observations. Troublesome sources which may cause the effect you are observing, may be quite distant 'dipoles' accounting for the cardiac activity picked up by the EEG electrode array. Although in general I believe that EEG- channel-level coherence analysis is very problematic due to interpretational difficulties, you could see whether your reported spatial patterns change when constructing a Laplacian derivation for each of your electrodes (if the number of electrodes allows for this). Good luck, Jan-Mathijs On Oct 23, 2010, at 12:12 AM, Rodolphe Nenert wrote: > Dear Jan, > > yes i do analyze EEG data. The data was recorded using vertex (CZ) as > reference, but i modified to an average reference before doing any > time-freq > analysis. > > Rodolphe. > > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:04:00 +0200, jan-mathijs schoffelen > wrote: > >> Dear Rodolphe, >> >> I guess you are analyzing EEG data? What reference electrode(s) did >> you use? >> >> Best, >> JM >> >> >> >> On Oct 22, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Rodolphe wrote: >> >>> Dear Fieldtrip users, >>> >>> I recently run a coherence analysis on my data and i plotted a >>> beautiful Topographic plot showing a strong coherence between one >>> electrode in left parietal ( P5) and some right frontal electrodes. >>> The thing is, when i try with the right parietal equivalent ( P6 ) >>> then i find a coherence with left frontal. Ans so on with a couple >>> of other electrodes use as ref channels. >>> As this symmetry looks awkward to me, is any of you have an idea of >>> a posible artifact that can cause this, or a possible bias in the >>> analysis? ( I tripled checked my code) >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Rodolphe N., Ph.D. >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You >>> are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >>> the FieldTrip list. 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(Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From paul_c at GMX.DE Mon Oct 25 13:40:48 2010 From: paul_c at GMX.DE (Paul Czienskowski) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:40:48 +0200 Subject: Forward model conductivities Message-ID: Dear all, Alexandre Gramford pointed out to me that there was some discussion ongoing on which conductivities to use for EEG-Forward-Modeling and I'd like to move this discussion more to public for it could be interesting for many of us. I was recently overflying some papers concerned with that very issues and I made some interesting and discoveries, especially in Conductivity of living intracranial tissues. by Latikka J, Kuurne T, Eskola H. The electrical conductivity of human cerebrospinal fluid at body temperature by Baumann et al. The first one measured the conductivities (or resistivities) of living brain tissue and came to values of 3.51 Ohms*m and 3.91 Ohms*m for grey respectively white matter and 0.80 Ohms*m for the CSF (which are about 0.28, 0.256 and 1.25 S/m). In contrary the second one found a value for 1.79 S/m for CSF at body temperature where it was about 1.4 S/m at room temperature. The Skull-To-Brain conductivity ratio was measured for example in Estimation of /in vivo/ brain-to-skull conductivity ratio in humans by Yingchun Zhang, Wim van Drongelen, and Bin He where they found a ratio of about 1/18.7 which is way larger than the commonly assumed value. I would appreciate very much if many of you could contribute to this discussion by telling us which values you use for the conductivities and on which publications the are based. 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URL: From carsten.wolters at UNI-MUENSTER.DE Mon Oct 25 15:41:24 2010 From: carsten.wolters at UNI-MUENSTER.DE (Dr. Carsten Wolters) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:41:24 +0200 Subject: Forward model conductivities In-Reply-To: <4CC56CC0.5070307@gmx.de> Message-ID: Dear Paul, head tissue conductivities seem to have a larger inter- and intra-subject variability. I attachted a 4-page-proceedings paper with regard to those issues that we recently presented : @InProceedings{CHW:Wol2010, author = "C. H. Wolters and S.Lew and R. S. MacLeod and M. S. H{\"a}m{\"a}l{\"a}inen", title = "Combined {EEG/MEG} source analysis using calibrated finite element head models", booktitle = "Proc. of the 44th Annual Meeting, DGBMT", address = "Rostock-Warnem{\"u}nde, Germany, Oct.5-8, 2010", year = "2010", note = "http://conference.vde.com/bmt-2010", } Best regards Carsten Paul Czienskowski wrote: > Dear all, > > Alexandre Gramford pointed out to me that there was some discussion > ongoing on which conductivities to use for EEG-Forward-Modeling and > I'd like to move this discussion more to public for it could be > interesting for many of us. > I was recently overflying some papers concerned with that very issues > and I made some interesting and discoveries, especially in > > Conductivity of living intracranial tissues. by Latikka J, Kuurne > T, Eskola H. > The electrical conductivity of human cerebrospinal fluid at body > temperature by Baumann et al. > > The first one measured the conductivities (or resistivities) of living > brain tissue and came to values of 3.51 Ohms*m and 3.91 Ohms*m for > grey respectively white matter and 0.80 Ohms*m for the CSF (which are > about 0.28, 0.256 and 1.25 S/m). In contrary the second one found a > value for 1.79 S/m for CSF at body temperature where it was about 1.4 > S/m at room temperature. The Skull-To-Brain conductivity ratio was > measured for example in > > Estimation of /in vivo/ brain-to-skull conductivity ratio in > humans by Yingchun Zhang, Wim van Drongelen, and Bin He > > where they found a ratio of about 1/18.7 which is way larger than the > commonly assumed value. > > I would appreciate very much if many of you could contribute to this > discussion by telling us which values you use for the conductivities > and on which publications the are based. > > Best, > Paul > -- > Paul Czienskowski > Max Planck institute for human development > Lentzeallee 94 > 14195 Berlin > > Björnsonstr. 25 > 12163 Berlin > > Tel.: (+49)(0)30/221609359 > Handy: (+49)(0)1788378772 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. 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My big worry however is not simply to find the ratio (taking individual differences into account). but also to get estimates of the differences in conductivity across the skull. I'm pretty confident that such inhomogeneities are present and that they will have significant effects on the BEM forward models. The inhomogeneities will not only affect the effective depth of sources but also can laterally shift their locations to places on cortex with very different surface normals. An important aspect of our EEG/MEG source localization work is to learn how to calibrate each individual's conductivity partly based on differences in EEG vs MEG localizations. best, Stan On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Paul Czienskowski wrote: > Dear all, > > Alexandre Gramford pointed out to me that there was some discussion ongoing > on which conductivities to use for EEG-Forward-Modeling and I'd like to move > this discussion more to public for it could be interesting for many of us. > I was recently overflying some papers concerned with that very issues and I > made some interesting and discoveries, especially in > > Conductivity of living intracranial tissues. by Latikka J, Kuurne T, Eskola > H. > The electrical conductivity of human cerebrospinal fluid at body > temperature by Baumann et al. > > The first one measured the conductivities (or resistivities) of living > brain tissue and came to values of 3.51 Ohms*m and 3.91 Ohms*m for grey > respectively white matter and 0.80 Ohms*m for the CSF (which are about 0.28, > 0.256 and 1.25 S/m). In contrary the second one found a value for 1.79 S/m > for CSF at body temperature where it was about 1.4 S/m at room temperature. > The Skull-To-Brain conductivity ratio was measured for example in > > Estimation of *in vivo* brain-to-skull conductivity ratio in humans by > Yingchun Zhang, Wim van Drongelen, and Bin He > > where they found a ratio of about 1/18.7 which is way larger than the > commonly assumed value. > > I would appreciate very much if many of you could contribute to this > discussion by telling us which values you use for the conductivities and on > which publications the are based. > > Best, > Paul > > > -- > Paul Czienskowski > Max Planck institute for human development > Lentzeallee 94 > 14195 Berlin > > Björnsonstr. 25 > 12163 Berlin > > Tel.: (+49)(0)30/221609359 > Handy: (+49)(0)1788378772 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. 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URL: From carsten.wolters at UNI-MUENSTER.DE Tue Oct 26 09:11:47 2010 From: carsten.wolters at UNI-MUENSTER.DE (Dr. Carsten Wolters) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:11:47 +0200 Subject: Forward model conductivities In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Stanley and Paul, I agree to what Stanley wrote about the skull inhomogeneities, it fits perfectly to what we described in a recent publication: @Article{CHW:Dan2010, author = {Dannhauer, M. and Lanfer, B. and Wolters, C.H. and Kn{\"o}sche, T.}, title = {Modeling of the Human Skull in {EEG} Source Analysis}, journal = "Human Brain Mapping", note = "DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21114, PMID: 20690140", year = "2010", } Best regards Carsten Stanley Klein wrote: > Dear Paul and Carsten, > The conductivity ratio of 1/20 that you mention is indeed on the low > side of > many present estimates. It is way lower than the Rush & Driscoll 1/80 > ratio that we used in our 30 year old "Ary Correction" paper that > examined > the effect of skull and scalp thickness. My big worry however is > not simply to find the ratio (taking individual differences into > account). but > also to get estimates of the differences in conductivity across the skull. > I'm pretty confident that such inhomogeneities are present and that > they will > have significant effects on the BEM forward models. The inhomogeneities > will not only affect the effective depth of sources but also can > laterally shift > their locations to places on cortex with very different surface normals. > > An important aspect of our EEG/MEG source localization work is to learn > how to calibrate each individual's conductivity partly based on > differences > in EEG vs MEG localizations. > > best, > Stan > > > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Paul Czienskowski > wrote: > > Dear all, > > Alexandre Gramford pointed out to me that there was some > discussion ongoing on which conductivities to use for > EEG-Forward-Modeling and I'd like to move this discussion more to > public for it could be interesting for many of us. > I was recently overflying some papers concerned with that very > issues and I made some interesting and discoveries, especially in > > Conductivity of living intracranial tissues. by Latikka J, > Kuurne T, Eskola H. > The electrical conductivity of human cerebrospinal fluid at > body temperature by Baumann et al. > > The first one measured the conductivities (or resistivities) of > living brain tissue and came to values of 3.51 Ohms*m and 3.91 > Ohms*m for grey respectively white matter and 0.80 Ohms*m for the > CSF (which are about 0.28, 0.256 and 1.25 S/m). In contrary the > second one found a value for 1.79 S/m for CSF at body temperature > where it was about 1.4 S/m at room temperature. The Skull-To-Brain > conductivity ratio was measured for example in > > Estimation of /in vivo/ brain-to-skull conductivity ratio in > humans by Yingchun Zhang, Wim van Drongelen, and Bin He > > where they found a ratio of about 1/18.7 which is way larger than > the commonly assumed value. > > I would appreciate very much if many of you could contribute to > this discussion by telling us which values you use for the > conductivities and on which publications the are based. > > Best, > Paul > > -- > Paul Czienskowski > Max Planck institute for human development > Lentzeallee 94 > 14195 Berlin > > Björnsonstr. 25 > 12163 Berlin > > Tel.: (+49)(0)30/221609359 > Handy: (+49)(0)1788378772 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- PD.Dr.rer.nat. 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I used fieldtrip's automatic and semi-automatic artifact rejection routines to identify channels that are flat, show jumps and are noisy. I defined these as bad in maxfilter. Then I used sss/tsss to achieve the desired steps. It seemed very straight forward. However, when looking at the results, the signal seems to be increased (and more noisy and jumpy) in certain channels (see attached pdfs of bad and non-bad channel (1st page: raw data, 2nd page: sss data, 3rd page: tsss data). Have you ever experienced anything like this? The only reason I can come up with is that in maxfilter I used the continuous raw data file and not as in fieldtrip, only trials. Between trials there are pauses, where the channels could have been affected by a few movements. Could this explain my difficulties? Is there a way to 'only' interpolate channels and realign the head, without impacting other non-broken channels? Thank you very much for your answer! Nina -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] Im Auftrag von Burkhard Maess Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Oktober 2010 09:25 An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL Betreff: Re: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data Dear David, I agree with Jan-Mathijs. variant a: apply maxfilter - that will repair all broken channels. You also can manually define certain channels as broken. Maxfilter may also align data of different headpositions to a single position. variant b: use megrealign - it includes a minimum norm localization and from there MEG data is forward computed. In this way, you can repair channels, align different head positions to the same and even convert data between different systems. all the best, Burkhard jan-mathijs schoffelen wrote: > Dear David, > > This is a good point. As far as I can see from the code, no > distinction is made between gradiometers and magnetometers. > Naively, I would propose the following: first indeed split the data > into two subset: gradiometers only and magnetometers only, only then > apply the channel reparation routine. Yet, for the gradiometer subset > data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a bad > channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead to > averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal orientation. > > In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I > don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is > desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the noise > (because the combination step results in taking an absolute value). > Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which in > principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would be to > only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and you would > want to interpolate the data back onto the original sensor-array. An > example for interpolating between two types of CTF-systems is shown > here http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. > > Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag software > allow for similar things? > > Best wishes, > > Jan-Mathijs > > On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: > >> Hi Fieldtrippers, >> >> I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some >> missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just wondering >> whether there are any potential problems with using the nearest >> neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the Neuromag >> system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). >> >> If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing bad/missing >> channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a subset of the >> channels, say the gradiometers after I run ft_combineplanar)? >> >> Thanks! >> David >> >> -- >> David A. Ziegler >> Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences >> Massachusetts Institute of Technology >> 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 >> Cambridge, MA 02139 >> Tel: 617-258-0765 >> Fax: 617-253-1504 >> daz at mit.edu >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >> the FieldTrip list. 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We shall continue the discussion here when we know the reason for this strange behavior. best wishes, Burkhard Nina Kahlbrock wrote: > Dear Burkhard, > I am also working on NM306 data and I have a specific problem repairing > broken channels using maxfilter. This email might thus be more suited for > the neuromeg discussion list. However, I thought it might be of interest to > other NM users as well... > What I would like to do is pretty much the same as described in the previous > mails: interpolate broken channels and use a standard head position for > multiple recordings in one subject. > I used fieldtrip's automatic and semi-automatic artifact rejection routines > to identify channels that are flat, show jumps and are noisy. I defined > these as bad in maxfilter. Then I used sss/tsss to achieve the desired > steps. It seemed very straight forward. > However, when looking at the results, the signal seems to be increased (and > more noisy and jumpy) in certain channels (see attached pdfs of bad and > non-bad channel (1st page: raw data, 2nd page: sss data, 3rd page: tsss > data). Have you ever experienced anything like this? The only reason I can > come up with is that in maxfilter I used the continuous raw data file and > not as in fieldtrip, only trials. Between trials there are pauses, where the > channels could have been affected by a few movements. Could this explain my > difficulties? > Is there a way to 'only' interpolate channels and realign the head, without > impacting other non-broken channels? > Thank you very much for your answer! > Nina > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] Im Auftrag > von Burkhard Maess > Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Oktober 2010 09:25 > An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL > Betreff: Re: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data > > Dear David, > > I agree with Jan-Mathijs. > > variant a: apply maxfilter - that will repair all broken channels. You > also can manually define certain channels as broken. Maxfilter may also > align data of different headpositions to a single position. > > variant b: use megrealign - it includes a minimum norm localization and > from there MEG data is forward computed. In this way, you can repair > channels, align different head positions to the same and even convert > data between different systems. > > all the best, > Burkhard > > > jan-mathijs schoffelen wrote: > >> Dear David, >> >> This is a good point. As far as I can see from the code, no >> distinction is made between gradiometers and magnetometers. >> Naively, I would propose the following: first indeed split the data >> into two subset: gradiometers only and magnetometers only, only then >> apply the channel reparation routine. Yet, for the gradiometer subset >> data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a bad >> channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead to >> averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal orientation. >> >> In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I >> don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is >> desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the noise >> (because the combination step results in taking an absolute value). >> Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which in >> principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would be to >> only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and you would >> want to interpolate the data back onto the original sensor-array. An >> example for interpolating between two types of CTF-systems is shown >> here http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. >> >> Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag software >> allow for similar things? >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Jan-Mathijs >> >> On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: >> >> >>> Hi Fieldtrippers, >>> >>> I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some >>> missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just wondering >>> whether there are any potential problems with using the nearest >>> neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the Neuromag >>> system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). >>> >>> If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing bad/missing >>> channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a subset of the >>> channels, say the gradiometers after I run ft_combineplanar)? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> David >>> >>> -- >>> David A. Ziegler >>> Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences >>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology >>> 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 >>> Cambridge, MA 02139 >>> Tel: 617-258-0765 >>> Fax: 617-253-1504 >>> daz at mit.edu >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >>> the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion >>> between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences >>> and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. >>> See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html >>> and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. >>> >>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen >> Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, >> Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, >> Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands >> J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl >> Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 >> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >> the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion >> between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences >> and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. >> See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html >> and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Burkhard Maess Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Stephanstr. 1a, P.O. Box 500355, D-04303 Leipzig Aussenstelle Bennewitz, phone/fax: +49(3425)887525-26/-11 mail: maess 'at' cbs.mpg.de, http://www.cbs.mpg.de ------------------------------------------------------------ Please do not attach files which may contain executable code, e.g. .rtf is preferred over .doc(x) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From e.vandenbroeke at ANES.UMCN.NL Tue Oct 26 16:25:24 2010 From: e.vandenbroeke at ANES.UMCN.NL (Emanuel van den Broeke) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:25:24 +0200 Subject: non-parametric cluster-based analysis Message-ID: Dear fieldtrip users, I would like to know if I it is allowed to do three single non-parametric cluster based analyses and use IndepT-statistics, if I will test three groups (group A vs B, B vs C and A vs C) by . And is it then nescessarily to adjust post-hoc the p-value of all three comparisons because of multiple comparisons? Thanx! Emanuel --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From batrod at GMAIL.COM Wed Oct 27 01:08:23 2010 From: batrod at GMAIL.COM (Rodolphe Nenert) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:08:23 +0200 Subject: non-parametric cluster-based analysis Message-ID: Dear Emmanuel, If i understand correctly you want to rank your 3 groups on a particular condition using the cluster correction. On normal data you would face the multiple comparison problem and would need to correct. Here, this need to be confirmed, the problem is you're doing cluster correction. Therefore, the significant cluster you may find between your groups may vary in "shape". Ranking is thus probably nonsense. Still, this analysis will tell you what is significantly different between two groups. If you want to rank your 3 groups you can choose relevant electrodes and make an ANOVA, or if you want to stay with non-parametric, a Kruskal- Wallis. Hope this helps, maybe someone else will have a better answer to your problem, Rodolphe. On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:25:24 +0200, wrote: >Dear fieldtrip users, > >I would like to know if I it is allowed to do three single non-parametric cluster >based analyses and use IndepT-statistics, if I will test three groups (group A >vs B, B vs C and A vs C) by . And is it then nescessarily to adjust post-hoc >the p-value of all three comparisons because of multiple comparisons? > >Thanx! >Emanuel > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion >between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences >and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. >See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html >and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From e.maris at DONDERS.RU.NL Wed Oct 27 07:33:36 2010 From: e.maris at DONDERS.RU.NL (Eric Maris) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:33:36 +0200 Subject: non-parametric cluster-based analysis In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi Emanuel, > I would like to know if I it is allowed to do three single non- > parametric cluster > based analyses and use IndepT-statistics, if I will test three groups > (group A > vs B, B vs C and A vs C) by . And is it then nescessarily to adjust > post-hoc > the p-value of all three comparisons because of multiple comparisons? Yes, this is required. Alternatively, you may run a single three-group analysis using the indepsamplesF statistic. Here, you test the null hypothesis that the observations in the three groups are all drawn from the same probability distribution. Best, Eric > > Thanx! > Emanuel > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the > discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From daz at MIT.EDU Wed Oct 27 17:01:46 2010 From: daz at MIT.EDU (David Ziegler) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:01:46 -0400 Subject: AW: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data In-Reply-To: <4CC69576.5090501@cbs.mpg.de> Message-ID: Hi Burkdard and Nina, First off, thanks for the great advice Burkhard (and Jan-Mathijs). Following your advice, I processed my raw neuromag data with maxfilter, and I ended up with some results that are quite similar to what Nina is seeing. This doesn't happen for all of my subjects, but for about half of them, I get increased noise in select channels following maxfilter. I believe I used maxfilter v2.0 and my command line was: maxfilter -f $f_i{each subject's fif file} -origin 0 0 40 -frame head -autobad 30 -badlimit 7 -in 8 -out 3 -trans default You mentioned that this should probably be posted to the neuromag list, but I am not currently on that list and wasn't able to find it with a quick search. I'd be happy to repost there if you point me to the sign-up page. Thanks! David On 10/26/2010 4:46 AM, Burkhard Maess wrote: > Dear Nina, > > indeed this looks funny. I have seen that maxfilter sometimes has > produced unexpected results, but usually the channels have less noise > after transformation. Your displays demonstrate the problem, but > provide insufficient information to search for origin of it. I think, > it is necessary to place one of these files to an ftp-server together > with the list of bad channels you have used and the version of > maxfilter. I would recommend to ask Jukka Nennonen for help because he > is the maxfilter-pro and the displayed result should not show up. We > shall continue the discussion here when we know the reason for this > strange behavior. > > best wishes, > Burkhard > > > > Nina Kahlbrock wrote: >> Dear Burkhard, >> I am also working on NM306 data and I have a specific problem repairing >> broken channels using maxfilter. This email might thus be more suited >> for >> the neuromeg discussion list. However, I thought it might be of >> interest to >> other NM users as well... >> What I would like to do is pretty much the same as described in the >> previous >> mails: interpolate broken channels and use a standard head position for >> multiple recordings in one subject. >> I used fieldtrip's automatic and semi-automatic artifact rejection >> routines >> to identify channels that are flat, show jumps and are noisy. I defined >> these as bad in maxfilter. Then I used sss/tsss to achieve the desired >> steps. It seemed very straight forward. However, when looking at the >> results, the signal seems to be increased (and >> more noisy and jumpy) in certain channels (see attached pdfs of bad and >> non-bad channel (1st page: raw data, 2nd page: sss data, 3rd page: tsss >> data). Have you ever experienced anything like this? The only reason >> I can >> come up with is that in maxfilter I used the continuous raw data file >> and >> not as in fieldtrip, only trials. Between trials there are pauses, >> where the >> channels could have been affected by a few movements. Could this >> explain my >> difficulties? >> Is there a way to 'only' interpolate channels and realign the head, >> without >> impacting other non-broken channels? >> Thank you very much for your answer! >> Nina >> >> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] Im >> Auftrag >> von Burkhard Maess >> Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Oktober 2010 09:25 >> An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL >> Betreff: Re: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data >> >> Dear David, >> >> I agree with Jan-Mathijs. >> >> variant a: apply maxfilter - that will repair all broken channels. >> You also can manually define certain channels as broken. Maxfilter >> may also align data of different headpositions to a single position. >> >> variant b: use megrealign - it includes a minimum norm localization >> and from there MEG data is forward computed. In this way, you can >> repair channels, align different head positions to the same and even >> convert data between different systems. >> >> all the best, >> Burkhard >> >> >> jan-mathijs schoffelen wrote: >>> Dear David, >>> >>> This is a good point. As far as I can see from the code, no >>> distinction is made between gradiometers and magnetometers. >>> Naively, I would propose the following: first indeed split the data >>> into two subset: gradiometers only and magnetometers only, only then >>> apply the channel reparation routine. Yet, for the gradiometer >>> subset data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a >>> bad channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead >>> to averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal >>> orientation. >>> >>> In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I >>> don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is >>> desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the >>> noise (because the combination step results in taking an absolute >>> value). Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which >>> in principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would >>> be to only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and >>> you would want to interpolate the data back onto the original >>> sensor-array. An example for interpolating between two types of >>> CTF-systems is shown here >>> http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. >>> >>> Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag >>> software allow for similar things? >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> >>> Jan-Mathijs >>> On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Fieldtrippers, >>>> >>>> I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some >>>> missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just >>>> wondering whether there are any potential problems with using the >>>> nearest neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the >>>> Neuromag system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). >>>> If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing >>>> bad/missing channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a >>>> subset of the channels, say the gradiometers after I run >>>> ft_combineplanar)? >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> David >>>> >>>> -- >>>> David A. Ziegler >>>> Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute >>>> of Technology 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 Cambridge, MA 02139 >>>> Tel: 617-258-0765 >>>> Fax: 617-253-1504 >>>> daz at mit.edu >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>>> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the >>>> FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the >>>> discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share >>>> experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See >>>> also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and >>>> http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. >>>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>> Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen Donders Institute for Brain, >>> Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, >>> Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands >>> J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl >>> Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 >>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >>> the FieldTrip list. 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Name: Grads_postMaxfilter.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 334834 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Nina.Kahlbrock at UNI-DUESSELDORF.DE Wed Oct 27 17:26:34 2010 From: Nina.Kahlbrock at UNI-DUESSELDORF.DE (Nina Kahlbrock) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:26:34 +0200 Subject: AW: [FIELDTRIP] AW: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data In-Reply-To: <4CC83EDA.8070708@mit.edu> Message-ID: Hi David, the link for the neuromeg discussion list is: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=NEUROMEG I am currently discussing those problems with the Elekta Neuromag support. I will let you know as soon as this has come to a conclusion. Cheers, Nina _____ Von: FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] Im Auftrag von David Ziegler Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. Oktober 2010 17:02 An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL Betreff: Re: [FIELDTRIP] AW: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data Hi Burkdard and Nina, First off, thanks for the great advice Burkhard (and Jan-Mathijs). Following your advice, I processed my raw neuromag data with maxfilter, and I ended up with some results that are quite similar to what Nina is seeing. This doesn't happen for all of my subjects, but for about half of them, I get increased noise in select channels following maxfilter. I believe I used maxfilter v2.0 and my command line was: maxfilter -f $f_i{each subject's fif file} -origin 0 0 40 -frame head -autobad 30 -badlimit 7 -in 8 -out 3 -trans default You mentioned that this should probably be posted to the neuromag list, but I am not currently on that list and wasn't able to find it with a quick search. I'd be happy to repost there if you point me to the sign-up page. Thanks! David On 10/26/2010 4:46 AM, Burkhard Maess wrote: Dear Nina, indeed this looks funny. I have seen that maxfilter sometimes has produced unexpected results, but usually the channels have less noise after transformation. Your displays demonstrate the problem, but provide insufficient information to search for origin of it. I think, it is necessary to place one of these files to an ftp-server together with the list of bad channels you have used and the version of maxfilter. I would recommend to ask Jukka Nennonen for help because he is the maxfilter-pro and the displayed result should not show up. We shall continue the discussion here when we know the reason for this strange behavior. best wishes, Burkhard Nina Kahlbrock wrote: Dear Burkhard, I am also working on NM306 data and I have a specific problem repairing broken channels using maxfilter. This email might thus be more suited for the neuromeg discussion list. However, I thought it might be of interest to other NM users as well... What I would like to do is pretty much the same as described in the previous mails: interpolate broken channels and use a standard head position for multiple recordings in one subject. I used fieldtrip's automatic and semi-automatic artifact rejection routines to identify channels that are flat, show jumps and are noisy. I defined these as bad in maxfilter. Then I used sss/tsss to achieve the desired steps. It seemed very straight forward. However, when looking at the results, the signal seems to be increased (and more noisy and jumpy) in certain channels (see attached pdfs of bad and non-bad channel (1st page: raw data, 2nd page: sss data, 3rd page: tsss data). Have you ever experienced anything like this? The only reason I can come up with is that in maxfilter I used the continuous raw data file and not as in fieldtrip, only trials. Between trials there are pauses, where the channels could have been affected by a few movements. Could this explain my difficulties? Is there a way to 'only' interpolate channels and realign the head, without impacting other non-broken channels? Thank you very much for your answer! Nina -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] Im Auftrag von Burkhard Maess Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Oktober 2010 09:25 An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL Betreff: Re: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data Dear David, I agree with Jan-Mathijs. variant a: apply maxfilter - that will repair all broken channels. You also can manually define certain channels as broken. Maxfilter may also align data of different headpositions to a single position. variant b: use megrealign - it includes a minimum norm localization and from there MEG data is forward computed. In this way, you can repair channels, align different head positions to the same and even convert data between different systems. all the best, Burkhard jan-mathijs schoffelen wrote: Dear David, This is a good point. As far as I can see from the code, no distinction is made between gradiometers and magnetometers. Naively, I would propose the following: first indeed split the data into two subset: gradiometers only and magnetometers only, only then apply the channel reparation routine. Yet, for the gradiometer subset data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a bad channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead to averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal orientation. In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the noise (because the combination step results in taking an absolute value). Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which in principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would be to only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and you would want to interpolate the data back onto the original sensor-array. An example for interpolating between two types of CTF-systems is shown here http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag software allow for similar things? Best wishes, Jan-Mathijs On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: Hi Fieldtrippers, I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just wondering whether there are any potential problems with using the nearest neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the Neuromag system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing bad/missing channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a subset of the channels, say the gradiometers after I run ft_combineplanar)? Thanks! David -- David A. Ziegler Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 Cambridge, MA 02139 Tel: 617-258-0765 Fax: 617-253-1504 daz at mit.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- David A. 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The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From daz at MIT.EDU Wed Oct 27 17:40:12 2010 From: daz at MIT.EDU (David Ziegler) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:40:12 -0400 Subject: AW: [FIELDTRIP] AW: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data In-Reply-To: <000a01cb75eb$573904b0$cd136386@VMED.UKD> Message-ID: Thanks, Nina, for the link and in advance for anything you find out from Neuromag support. Did you use a similar command as mine? Cheers! David On 10/27/2010 11:26 AM, Nina Kahlbrock wrote: > > Hi David, > > the link for the neuromeg discussion list is: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=NEUROMEG > > I am currently discussing those problems with the Elekta Neuromag > support. I will let you know as soon as this has come to a conclusion. > > Cheers, > > Nina > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *Von:*FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] *Im > Auftrag von *David Ziegler > *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 27. Oktober 2010 17:02 > *An:* FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL > *Betreff:* Re: [FIELDTRIP] AW: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with > neuromag data > > Hi Burkdard and Nina, > > First off, thanks for the great advice Burkhard (and Jan-Mathijs). > Following your advice, I processed my raw neuromag data with > maxfilter, and I ended up with some results that are quite similar to > what Nina is seeing. This doesn't happen for all of my subjects, but > for about half of them, I get increased noise in select channels > following maxfilter. I believe I used maxfilter v2.0 and my command > line was: > > maxfilter -f $f_i{each subject's fif file} -origin 0 0 40 -frame head > -autobad 30 -badlimit 7 -in 8 -out 3 -trans default > > You mentioned that this should probably be posted to the neuromag > list, but I am not currently on that list and wasn't able to find it > with a quick search. I'd be happy to repost there if you point me to > the sign-up page. > > Thanks! > David > > > On 10/26/2010 4:46 AM, Burkhard Maess wrote: > > Dear Nina, > > indeed this looks funny. I have seen that maxfilter sometimes has > produced unexpected results, but usually the channels have less noise > after transformation. Your displays demonstrate the problem, but > provide insufficient information to search for origin of it. I think, > it is necessary to place one of these files to an ftp-server together > with the list of bad channels you have used and the version of > maxfilter. I would recommend to ask Jukka Nennonen for help because he > is the maxfilter-pro and the displayed result should not show up. We > shall continue the discussion here when we know the reason for this > strange behavior. > > best wishes, > Burkhard > > > > Nina Kahlbrock wrote: > > Dear Burkhard, > I am also working on NM306 data and I have a specific problem repairing > broken channels using maxfilter. This email might thus be more suited for > the neuromeg discussion list. However, I thought it might be of > interest to > other NM users as well... > What I would like to do is pretty much the same as described in the > previous > mails: interpolate broken channels and use a standard head position for > multiple recordings in one subject. > I used fieldtrip's automatic and semi-automatic artifact rejection > routines > to identify channels that are flat, show jumps and are noisy. I defined > these as bad in maxfilter. Then I used sss/tsss to achieve the desired > steps. It seemed very straight forward. However, when looking at the > results, the signal seems to be increased (and > more noisy and jumpy) in certain channels (see attached pdfs of bad and > non-bad channel (1st page: raw data, 2nd page: sss data, 3rd page: tsss > data). Have you ever experienced anything like this? The only reason I > can > come up with is that in maxfilter I used the continuous raw data file and > not as in fieldtrip, only trials. Between trials there are pauses, > where the > channels could have been affected by a few movements. Could this > explain my > difficulties? > Is there a way to 'only' interpolate channels and realign the head, > without > impacting other non-broken channels? > Thank you very much for your answer! > Nina > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] Im > Auftrag > von Burkhard Maess > Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Oktober 2010 09:25 > An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL > Betreff: Re: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data > > Dear David, > > I agree with Jan-Mathijs. > > variant a: apply maxfilter - that will repair all broken channels. You > also can manually define certain channels as broken. Maxfilter may > also align data of different headpositions to a single position. > > variant b: use megrealign - it includes a minimum norm localization > and from there MEG data is forward computed. In this way, you can > repair channels, align different head positions to the same and even > convert data between different systems. > > all the best, > Burkhard > > > jan-mathijs schoffelen wrote: > > Dear David, > > This is a good point. As far as I can see from the code, no > distinction is made between gradiometers and magnetometers. > Naively, I would propose the following: first indeed split the data > into two subset: gradiometers only and magnetometers only, only then > apply the channel reparation routine. Yet, for the gradiometer subset > data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a bad > channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead to > averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal orientation. > > In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I > don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is > desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the noise > (because the combination step results in taking an absolute value). > Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which in > principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would be to > only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and you would > want to interpolate the data back onto the original sensor-array. An > example for interpolating between two types of CTF-systems is shown > here http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. > > Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag software > allow for similar things? > > Best wishes, > > Jan-Mathijs > On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: > > Hi Fieldtrippers, > > I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some > missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just wondering > whether there are any potential problems with using the nearest > neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the Neuromag > system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). > If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing bad/missing > channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a subset of the > channels, say the gradiometers after I run ft_combineplanar)? > > Thanks! > David > > -- > David A. Ziegler > Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of > Technology 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 Cambridge, MA 02139 > Tel: 617-258-0765 > Fax: 617-253-1504 > daz at mit.edu > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the >> FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion >> between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to >> discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also >> http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and >> http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen Donders Institute for Brain, > Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, > Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands > J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl > > Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > > David A. Ziegler > > Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 > Cambridge, MA 02139 > > Tel: 617-258-0765 > > Fax: 617-253-1504 > > daz at mit.edu > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. 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You can still subscribe by sending an email to FIELDTRIP-request at NIC.SURFNET.NL , which will then be manually processed by one of the list administrators. The description on http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/discussion_list has been changed accordingly. We'll keep you posted on the progress of migrating to another listserver. best regards, Robert ----------------------------------------------------------- Robert Oostenveld, PhD Senior Researcher & MEG Physicist Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging Radboud University Nijmegen tel.: +31 (0)24 3619695 e-mail: r.oostenveld at donders.ru.nl web: http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging skype: r.oostenveld ----------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From recasensmarc at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 28 19:11:55 2010 From: recasensmarc at GMAIL.COM (Marc Recasens) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:11:55 +0200 Subject: Remove muscle artifacts using ICA Message-ID: Dear all, I have quite a naive question. I'm processing some MEG (4-D) datasets in order to use source location methods afterwards. One of my concerns is that I have some channels (3 in a row) with a steady high frequency artifact >50Hz (I thought it is muscle activity, However it is very tonic and present during the whole recording) which is within my frequencies of interest. This can be seen in the attached figures: timelocked responses bandpass filtered between 15 and 150 Hz, and time-frequency activity between 50 and 100 Hz. As the artefactual channels are put altogether in the right edge of the sensor array (A148, A147 and A146) interpolation may not be a suitable method to eliminate those artefactual channels. (?) I was wondering whether it is possible to correct those artifacts using ICA in such a way similar to ECG artifact removal using component analysis, that is, by identifying and remove those components in the source analysis that explain the high-frequency artifacts present in some of my channels. Thanks a lot. -- Marc Recasens Tel.: +34 639 24 15 98 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL Fri Oct 29 09:52:57 2010 From: jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL (jan-mathijs schoffelen) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:52:57 +0200 Subject: Remove muscle artifacts using ICA In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Marc, Your figures seem to be missing, so it is hard to judge what the artifacts look like exactly. Could it be that one of your head localization coils was switched on througout the measurement? In general, if your goal is to do source localization, I would not try to fix ugly channels, but just omit them from the sensor-array, because there will be plenty of sensors left. The fixing operation (whatever way it is done, e.g. nearest neighbour interpolation, ICA etc) involves replacing each channel's estimate by a linear combination of a subset of/all other channels. You have to keep in mind that the solution to the forward model (i.e. the leadfields for the sources you want to estimate) have to take the same linear operation into account in order to give correct results. As such, irrespective of the fact that the noisy channels are on the edge of the array, interpolation does not really make sense, because you are not really improving the quality of your total signal array. Also, in this case, I don't expect that rejecting the independent component capturing the artifact will be that beneficial, because most likely the spatial topography of this component of this component will be confined to the three bad guys, with more or less random loadings on the rest of the channels. Did you check whether the artifact is present at the level of the reference sensors? If that's the case, you could consider applying the cfw and afw (compute fixed weights, and apply fixed weights) utilities from the 4D software. Best wishes Jan-Mathijs On Oct 28, 2010, at 7:11 PM, Marc Recasens wrote: > Dear all, > > I have quite a naive question. > I'm processing some MEG (4-D) datasets in order to use source > location methods afterwards. One of my concerns is that I have some > channels (3 in a row) with a steady high frequency artifact >50Hz (I > thought it is muscle activity, However it is very tonic and present > during the whole recording) which is within my frequencies of > interest. This can be seen in the attached figures: timelocked > responses bandpass filtered between 15 and 150 Hz, and time- > frequency activity between 50 and 100 Hz. > As the artefactual channels are put altogether in the right edge of > the sensor array (A148, A147 and A146) interpolation may not be a > suitable method to eliminate those artefactual channels. (?) > > I was wondering whether it is possible to correct those artifacts > using ICA in such a way similar to ECG artifact removal using > component analysis, that is, by identifying and remove those > components in the source analysis that explain the high-frequency > artifacts present in some of my channels. > > Thanks a lot. > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Marc Recasens > Tel.: +34 639 24 15 98 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You > are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the > discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. J.M. 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Thanks in advance, Sangi ---------------------------------- The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From e.maris at DONDERS.RU.NL Fri Oct 1 21:10:09 2010 From: e.maris at DONDERS.RU.NL (Eric Maris) Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 21:10:09 +0200 Subject: coherence and inter-trial coherence questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Matteo, I have two questions regarding statistical tests: first one regarding coherence differences, second one pertaining testing inter-trial coherence. We are analysing MEG data from an auditory experiment with 5 subjects. We considered the deviant stimulus as the only stimulus in the recordings, while the standard one was considered as baseline activity. We analysed the TFR data in both designs: within-trial and within-subject using respectively "actvsblT" and "depsamplesT" statistics. In both cases we compared a time interval extracted from the baseline versus a time interval from the deviant stimulus response. We wish to assess coherence differences using "indepsampleZcoh" statistic in both single-subject and multiple-subject cases. In a previous post Dr. Maris replied that this statistic only works in a between-trial design (for single-subject case) and suggested to compare the different conditions as they were un-paired. We exploited this idea for the single-subject case and we would like to know if it is legitimate to extend the same idea for the multiple-subject situation? In the multiple-subject situation, you should first calculate the two coherences (one for the deviant stimulus and one for the baseline condition) for every subject. These coherences should be compared using depsamplesT (and not using indepsamplesZcoh, which only works for a single-subject study). I'm fairly sure that the testing of coherence in a multiple subject study has already been addressed in the Fieldtrip discussion list. I think it was Jan-Matthijs Schoffelen who gave a extensive description on how to do it. Furthermore we would like to know if there is a way to test inter-trial coherence differences in Fieldtrip? In a previous post Stephan suggested how to deal with the problem; is it already implemented? If it has been implemented, I'm not aware of it. However, if you are a little bit proficient in Matlab programming, you can write you own statfun and have Fieldtrip apply it to your data. By debugging a statistical analysis that uses a built-in statfun, you can learn how the algorithm works. 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Else, if you subtract amplitudes or power values per spatial direction separately a relatively uninterpretable quantity (because spatial angles between task and baseline would play a major role) results after combineplanar. This is because of the effect of different gradient field angles between task and baseline. So the only viable way seems to be to correct after combineplanar. The implicit assumptions then is however, that source configuration (orientation) does not change between task and baseline, this should be justified/discussed for the case at hand. This problem does not occur for axial quantities as there is no loss of spatial information there. Hope this helps, please also let me know if you (or anyone else) disagrees! Michael PS: If anyone knows how to quantify spectral power of *arbitrary time varying vector fields* (not linearly or circularily polarized ones) uniquely and without assumptions on correlations between vector components please post it to the list. --------------------- Von: "Sangita Dandekar" Gesendet: Oct 5, 2010 1:56:32 PM An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL Betreff: [FIELDTRIP] baseline, combine_planar, and freqanalysis Thought I'd try reposting once, since I happened to send this on a weekend and didn't receive any reply. Sorry for the repost. Thanks, Sangi ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sangita Dandekar <[sangita.dandekar at gmail.com]> Date: Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:00 PM Subject: baseline, combine_planar, and freqanalysis To: FieldTrip discussion list <[FIELDTRIP at nic.surfnet.nl]> Hi, I'm wondering about the optimal order in which to apply combine_planar and baselining (relative to a pretrial time window) to time-frequency power spectra data. Does it make more sense to do: A: 1. meg_planar 2. freqanalysis 3. combine_planar 4. freqbaseline (on a trial by trial basis? see below) or B: 1. meg_planar 2. freqanalysis 3. freqbaseline(on a trial by trial basis? see below) 4. combine_planar Also, are there any opinions on whether baselining on a trial by trial basis is preferable or if it might be better to instead baseline with respect to the average of all pretrial baseline power spectra? Thanks in advance, Sangi --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. 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See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From akiko at NYU.EDU Mon Oct 11 00:54:28 2010 From: akiko at NYU.EDU (Akiko Ikkai) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:54:28 -0400 Subject: plotting plv In-Reply-To: <1704750977.1475589.1286480070322.JavaMail.fmail@mwmweb056> Message-ID: Hi, I'm trying to plot plv between channel pairs that I get from ft_connectivityanalysis. when I run cfg = []; cfg.xparam = 'time'; cfg.yparam = 'freq'; cfg.zparam = 'cohsprctm'; % need to run stat.cohsprctm = stat.plvspctrm; % fixed in the latest version? cfg.cohrefchannel = '1'; cfg.layout = 'ordered'; cfg.showlabels = 'yes'; cfg.colorbar = 'yes'; figure; ft_multiplotTFR(cfg, stat) I get this error: ft_multiplotTFR(cfg, stat) ??? Index exceeds matrix dimensions. Error in ==> ft_multiplotTFR at 242 datavector = data.(cfg.zparam)(seldat,yidc,xidc); ... I'm guessing the error is something like wrong channel combination or refchannel selection, but not able to locate where the error is coming from (have tried different channel combination). stat.dimord is "chan_chan_freq_time", which might not be formatted appropriately for ft_multiplotTFR...? Below, I'm attaching the code used to get "stat" (plv). Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! Akiko %%%%% code for connectivityanalysis %%%%%% cfg = []; cfg.output ='fourier'; % instead of 'powandcsd'... fixed in the latest version? cfg.method = 'mtmconvol'; cfg.channel = {'1', '7', '120'}; % contra & unrelated channels to test cfg.channelcmb = {'1' '7'; '1' '120'; '7', '120'}; cfg.keeptrials = 'yes'; cfg.keeptapers = 'no'; cfg.toi = [-.8:.1:2] cfg.foi = [1:0.5:30]; cfg.taper = 'hanning'; cfg.t_ftimwin = zeros(1,length(cfg.foi)); cfg.t_ftimwin(:) = 5./cfg.foi; TFR = ft_freqanalysis(cfg, ft_data); cfg=[]; cfg.method = 'plv'; [stat] = ft_connectivityanalysis(cfg, TFR); --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL Mon Oct 11 09:17:29 2010 From: jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL (jan-mathijs schoffelen) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:17:29 +0200 Subject: plotting plv In-Reply-To: <5a40df8d99c3d.4cb20be4@mail.nyu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Akiko, A small comment first: there's a type in the naming of your zparam 'cohsprctm' should probably read 'cohspctrm', but I don't think that this is the show stopper. Next, I guess that given your configuration for ft_freqanalysis, the eventual output of ft_connectivityanalysis is a 3x3xNfreqxNtime - matrix containing plv-values. Is that correct? I do not understand why the visualization fails, but it seems that the correct part of the code is not reached. Could you save the variable 'stat' to a file and upload it to our ftp- server, so that we can reproduce your bug. Recently we spent quite some time in streamlining the visualisation for this type of data and I am pretty sure that in your case it just should work. Please have a look at http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/faq/how_should_i_send_example_data_to_the_developers to upload your data. Best, Jan-Mathijs On Oct 11, 2010, at 12:54 AM, Akiko Ikkai wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to plot plv between channel pairs that I get from > ft_connectivityanalysis. > > when I run > cfg = []; > cfg.xparam = 'time'; > cfg.yparam = 'freq'; > cfg.zparam = 'cohsprctm'; % need to run stat.cohsprctm = > stat.plvspctrm; > % fixed in the > latest version? > cfg.cohrefchannel = '1'; > cfg.layout = 'ordered'; > cfg.showlabels = 'yes'; > cfg.colorbar = 'yes'; > figure; ft_multiplotTFR(cfg, stat) > > I get this error: > ft_multiplotTFR(cfg, stat) > ??? Index exceeds matrix dimensions. > > Error in ==> ft_multiplotTFR at 242 > datavector = data.(cfg.zparam)(seldat,yidc,xidc); > > > ... I'm guessing the error is something like wrong channel > combination or refchannel selection, but not able to locate where > the error is coming from (have tried different channel combination). > stat.dimord is "chan_chan_freq_time", which might not be formatted > appropriately for ft_multiplotTFR...? Below, I'm attaching the code > used to get "stat" (plv). > > Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! Akiko > > > %%%%% code for connectivityanalysis %%%%%% > cfg = []; > cfg.output ='fourier'; % instead of 'powandcsd'... fixed in the > latest version? > cfg.method = 'mtmconvol'; > cfg.channel = {'1', '7', '120'}; % contra & unrelated channels to test > cfg.channelcmb = {'1' '7'; '1' '120'; '7', '120'}; > cfg.keeptrials = 'yes'; > cfg.keeptapers = 'no'; > cfg.toi = [-.8:.1:2] > cfg.foi = [1:0.5:30]; > cfg.taper = 'hanning'; > cfg.t_ftimwin = zeros(1,length(cfg.foi)); > cfg.t_ftimwin(:) = 5./cfg.foi; > TFR = ft_freqanalysis(cfg, ft_data); > > cfg=[]; > cfg.method = 'plv'; > [stat] = ft_connectivityanalysis(cfg, TFR); > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the > discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From michael.wibral at WEB.DE Mon Oct 11 12:16:33 2010 From: michael.wibral at WEB.DE (Michael Wibral) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:16:33 +0200 Subject: one sided or two sided testing In-Reply-To: <015801cb66f3$2a6ec660$7f4c5320$@maris@donders.ru.nl> Message-ID: Dear Emanual, just a comment on the posts below. 'Prior' knowledge should come from independent data - e.g. collected in a different experiment or from another finding in the literature. It's best if you find some prior knowledge that you can *CITE* - otherwise it'll typically get pretty difficult to publish your one-sided test. I guess you knew this already (so please do not feel insulted by this post), just wanted to save you the trouble with reviewers in the very unlikely event that you didn't. Good luck for your study, Michael -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: "Eric Maris" Gesendet: Oct 8, 2010 4:14:43 PM An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL Betreff: Re: [FIELDTRIP] one sided or two sided testing >Dear Emanuel, > > >> If you have prior knowledge that the ERP is to be expected to be lower >> in one >> group as compared to the other group of subjects is it then allowed to >> only >> test the positive T-sum clusters (alpha 0.05) and neglect the negative >> clusters? > >Yes, this is allowed. Such a procedure controls the false alarm rate at >0.05. > > >Best, > >Eric Maris > > > >> >> Thank you in advance, >> Best, Emanuel >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >> the FieldTrip list. 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Name: Michael Wibral.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 628 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Jens.Schwarzbach at UNITN.IT Tue Oct 12 10:31:07 2010 From: Jens.Schwarzbach at UNITN.IT (Schwarzbach, Jens Volkmar) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:31:07 +0200 Subject: Assistant or Associate Research Professors, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, Trento In-Reply-To: <828827820.2751349.1286792193574.JavaMail.fmail@mwmweb053> Message-ID: Assistant or Associate Research Professors, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, Trento The Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento is seeking to fill a number of research positions in cognitive neuroscience at the Assistant or Associate Research Professor level. The Center offers an international and vibrant research setting in which to investigate the functioning of the brain through the analysis of its functional, structural and physiological characteristics, in both normal and pathological states. 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If you wish to receive further information please contact the Director of the CIMeC, Prof. Alfonso Caramazza (alfonso.caramazza at unitn.it) or Vice-Director Prof. Giorgio Vallortigara (giorgio.vallortigara at unitn.it) by November 15, 2010. ------------------------ Prof. Jens Schwarzbach Functional NeuroImaging Laboratories, MR Lab Co-Director Center for Mind Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Via delle Regole, 101, 38100 Mattarello (TN), Italy Telephone: +39-0461-28 3061 Fax: +39-0461-28-3066 http://www.cimec.unitn.it/ From nathanweisz at MAC.COM Tue Oct 12 17:08:11 2010 From: nathanweisz at MAC.COM (Nathan Weisz) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:08:11 +0200 Subject: plotting plv In-Reply-To: <5a40df8d99c3d.4cb20be4@mail.nyu.edu> Message-ID: hi akiko, just via coincidence i had the same issue today. after calculating ft_connectivityanalysis (i used 'coh' as method), the label field was missing. additionally i had to throw out the reference electrode. cohsniff.label=freqcsd.label; cohsniff.label(1)=[]; then plotting worked fine. good luck, nathan On 11.10.2010, at 00:54, Akiko Ikkai wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to plot plv between channel pairs that I get from ft_connectivityanalysis. > > when I run > cfg = []; > cfg.xparam = 'time'; > cfg.yparam = 'freq'; > cfg.zparam = 'cohsprctm'; % need to run stat.cohsprctm = stat.plvspctrm; > % fixed in the latest version? > cfg.cohrefchannel = '1'; > cfg.layout = 'ordered'; > cfg.showlabels = 'yes'; > cfg.colorbar = 'yes'; > figure; ft_multiplotTFR(cfg, stat) > > I get this error: > ft_multiplotTFR(cfg, stat) > ??? Index exceeds matrix dimensions. > > Error in ==> ft_multiplotTFR at 242 > datavector = data.(cfg.zparam)(seldat,yidc,xidc); > > > ... I'm guessing the error is something like wrong channel combination or refchannel selection, but not able to locate where the error is coming from (have tried different channel combination). stat.dimord is "chan_chan_freq_time", which might not be formatted appropriately for ft_multiplotTFR...? Below, I'm attaching the code used to get "stat" (plv). > > Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! Akiko > > > %%%%% code for connectivityanalysis %%%%%% > cfg = []; > cfg.output ='fourier'; % instead of 'powandcsd'... fixed in the latest version? > cfg.method = 'mtmconvol'; > cfg.channel = {'1', '7', '120'}; % contra & unrelated channels to test > cfg.channelcmb = {'1' '7'; '1' '120'; '7', '120'}; > cfg.keeptrials = 'yes'; > cfg.keeptapers = 'no'; > cfg.toi = [-.8:.1:2] > cfg.foi = [1:0.5:30]; > cfg.taper = 'hanning'; > cfg.t_ftimwin = zeros(1,length(cfg.foi)); > cfg.t_ftimwin(:) = 5./cfg.foi; > TFR = ft_freqanalysis(cfg, ft_data); > > cfg=[]; > cfg.method = 'plv'; > [stat] = ft_connectivityanalysis(cfg, TFR); > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. 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See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thomas.hartmann at UNI-KONSTANZ.DE Fri Oct 15 15:30:40 2010 From: thomas.hartmann at UNI-KONSTANZ.DE (Thomas Hartmann) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:30:40 +0200 Subject: specifying individual lateralization in sourcestatistic Message-ID: hi, i want to do a roi analysis on source data and average over the all the voxels. the problem is that i am dealing with a lateralized effect that i expect to show up either on the left or the right side of the same structure. this lateralization is individual for each subject and known a priori. is there any possibility to individually define, which side to take into account for the statistics? thanks in advance, thomas -- Dipl. Psych. Thomas Hartmann OBOB-Lab University of Konstanz Department of Psychology P.O. Box D25 78457 Konstanz Germany Tel.: +49 (0)7531 88 4612 Fax: +49 (0)7531-88 4601 Email: thomas.hartmann at uni-konstanz.de Homepage: http://www.uni-konstanz.de/obob "I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. " (Arthur Conan Doyle) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From michael.wibral at WEB.DE Fri Oct 15 16:08:09 2010 From: michael.wibral at WEB.DE (Michael Wibral) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:08:09 +0200 Subject: specifying individual lateralization in sourcestatistic In-Reply-To: <4CB85780.3000805@uni-konstanz.de> Message-ID: Hi Thomas, I suggest you simply extract the power values from the results of sourceanalysis (or t-values if you already did a fisrt level statistics) and average them by hand in MATLAB - as ROI is known for each subject this should be easy (you have to extract the values by the voxel indices contained in your ROI. These in turn you can find in interactive mode source plotting if everything else fails). This way you end up with a single value per subject and condition. Afterwards you do a simple permutation test by hand in MATLAB. ((The test for two conditions for example can be done this way: 1. concatenate all data in a vector D first data in one condition, then in the other) 2. compute your test metric between first and second half of D. 3. shuffle the entries of D: DS=D(randperm(length(D)); % creates a new D with shuffled entries by shuffling the indexes of the old one 4. compute your test metric for DS and remember it 5. Do 3+4 N times (e.g. >1901 times for accurate testing at alpha<0.05) 6. check where your original test metric obtained from D is in the distribution of the mtrices obtained from the DS.)) Hope this helps, Michael -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: "Thomas Hartmann" Gesendet: Oct 15, 2010 3:30:40 PM An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL Betreff: [FIELDTRIP] specifying individual lateralization in sourcestatistic > hi, >i want to do a roi analysis on source data and average over the all the >voxels. the problem is that i am dealing with a lateralized effect that >i expect to show up either on the left or the right side of the same >structure. this lateralization is individual for each subject and known >a priori. >is there any possibility to individually define, which side to take into >account for the statistics? > >thanks in advance, >thomas > >-- >Dipl. Psych. Thomas Hartmann > >OBOB-Lab >University of Konstanz >Department of Psychology >P.O. Box D25 >78457 Konstanz >Germany > >Tel.: +49 (0)7531 88 4612 >Fax: +49 (0)7531-88 4601 >Email: thomas.hartmann at uni-konstanz.de >Homepage: http://www.uni-konstanz.de/obob > >"I am a brain, Watson. 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See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From r.vandermeij at DONDERS.RU.NL Tue Oct 19 09:49:04 2010 From: r.vandermeij at DONDERS.RU.NL (Roemer van der Meij) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:49:04 +0200 Subject: plot rotated in 20101011 version In-Reply-To: <56f083dcec122.4cbc3d24@mail.nyu.edu> Message-ID: Hi Akiko, Is everything rotated, i.e. the interpolated data, the channels and the head shape/contours or only one of these? Best, Roemer Quoting Akiko Ikkai : > Hello, > > I downloaded 20101011 version, and found that ft_clusterplot, > ft_multiplotTFR plot images 90 degrees counter-clockwise (I only > tried these commands, but it's possible that other plot fxns do the > same). I ran the same codes with older versions and plots are fine. > Could someone let me know if versions later than 20101011 behave the > same (i.e. is this a new change that we should be aware of when > plotting, or a bug in this version)? > > Thanks in advance, Akiko > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Roemer van der Meij MSc PhD student Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Centre for Cognition P.O. 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I solved this issue by adding a rotate option in the cfg as following: cfg=[]; cfg.rotate=90; cfg.elec = mydata.elec; lay = ft_prepare_layout(cfg); Hope this helps, Rodolphe Nenert, Ph.D. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From akiko at NYU.EDU Wed Oct 20 01:55:08 2010 From: akiko at NYU.EDU (Akiko Ikkai) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:55:08 -0400 Subject: plot rotated in 20101011 version In-Reply-To: <20101019094904.t3oo09c2sk4kwwc0@www.socsci.ru.nl> Message-ID: Hi Roemer, It appears that interpolated data and contours in clusterplot/topoplot, and channel layout in multiplotTFR are rotated, but not the head outline. In my MEG data, data toward nose is displayed over the left ear on outline (90 degrees counter clockwise). If cfg.layout = 'ordered' is used, each channels are plotted accordingly, and within each channel, there is no rotation. singleplotTFR also plots normal. As Dr. Nenert suggested, I could correct for it with ft_prepare_layout, but it'd be nice to have this problem solved. Alternatively, I could download slightly older version of fieldtrip (assuming this rotation was introduced just recently), but I'd like to use the version that's spm8 compatible. Could you let me know how far back that would be (sometime in July 2010, I think)? Thank you for your time! Akiko ----- Original Message ----- From: Roemer van der Meij Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:49 am Subject: Re: [FIELDTRIP] plot rotated in 20101011 version To: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL > Hi Akiko, > > Is everything rotated, i.e. the interpolated data, the channels and > the head shape/contours or only one of these? > > Best, > Roemer > > > > Quoting Akiko Ikkai : > > > Hello, > > > > I downloaded 20101011 version, and found that ft_clusterplot, > > ft_multiplotTFR plot images 90 degrees counter-clockwise (I only > > tried these commands, but it's possible that other plot fxns do the > > > same). I ran the same codes with older versions and plots are fine. > > > Could someone let me know if versions later than 20101011 behave the > > > same (i.e. is this a new change that we should be aware of when > > plotting, or a bug in this version)? > > > > Thanks in advance, Akiko > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion > > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > -- > Roemer van der Meij MSc > PhD student > Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour > Centre for Cognition > P.O. Box 9104 > 6500 HE Nijmegen > The Netherlands > Tel: +31(0)24 3655932 > E-mail: r.vandermeij at donders.ru.nl > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From michael.wibral at WEB.DE Thu Oct 21 19:32:41 2010 From: michael.wibral at WEB.DE (Michael Wibral) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:32:41 +0200 Subject: Cluster change over time In-Reply-To: Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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So 'true' cluster membership of a certain electrode/timepoint/frequency is not statistically 'guaranteed'. Additional tests would be necessary. Then one thing that this argument does not account for is that 'accidentally neighbouring a cluster' is not so likely because of the smoothness of MEEG data - but I do not know at the moment how you could exploit this. This is well formulated. The null hypothesis that is tested by the cluster-based permutation tests involves that the spatiotemporal biological data in the experimental conditions that are being compared are drawn from the same probability distribution. They are NOT testing null hypotheses of the following type: there is no difference between the conditions at channel A and time point T whereas there may be differences at other (channel, time point) pairs. In fact, such null hypotheses do not make much sense when dealing with electrophysiological data because (a) because of volume conduction, spatially localized effects are not plausible, and (2) because neurophysiological processes are not instantaneous, highly temporally localized effect are not plausible either. Best, Eric Maris Michael _____ Von: Rodolphe Gesendet: Oct 20, 2010 12:49:06 AM An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL Betreff: [FIELDTRIP] Cluster change over time Dear Fieldtrip users, I used the Monte-Carlo method with cluster correction to compare two conditions within the same group of subjects. I didnt average over time, thus the clusterplot showed several topographic plot of the cluster that was found to be significant. I can see that this cluster evolves over time (number and place of significant electrodes highlighted). 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The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL Fri Oct 22 09:02:11 2010 From: jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL (jan-mathijs schoffelen) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:02:11 +0200 Subject: ft_channelrepair with neuromag data In-Reply-To: <4CC09941.1060006@mit.edu> Message-ID: Dear David, This is a good point. As far as I can see from the code, no distinction is made between gradiometers and magnetometers. Naively, I would propose the following: first indeed split the data into two subset: gradiometers only and magnetometers only, only then apply the channel reparation routine. Yet, for the gradiometer subset data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a bad channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead to averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal orientation. In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the noise (because the combination step results in taking an absolute value). Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which in principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would be to only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and you would want to interpolate the data back onto the original sensor-array. An example for interpolating between two types of CTF-systems is shown here http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag software allow for similar things? Best wishes, Jan-Mathijs On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: > Hi Fieldtrippers, > > I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some > missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just > wondering whether there are any potential problems with using the > nearest neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the > Neuromag system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). > > If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing bad/ > missing channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a subset > of the channels, say the gradiometers after I run ft_combineplanar)? > > Thanks! > David > > -- > David A. Ziegler > Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 > Cambridge, MA 02139 > Tel: 617-258-0765 > Fax: 617-253-1504 > daz at mit.edu > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You > are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the > discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. J.M. 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URL: From jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL Fri Oct 22 09:04:00 2010 From: jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL (jan-mathijs schoffelen) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:04:00 +0200 Subject: Coherence and dipole In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Rodolphe, I guess you are analyzing EEG data? What reference electrode(s) did you use? Best, JM On Oct 22, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Rodolphe wrote: > Dear Fieldtrip users, > > I recently run a coherence analysis on my data and i plotted a > beautiful Topographic plot showing a strong coherence between one > electrode in left parietal ( P5) and some right frontal electrodes. > The thing is, when i try with the right parietal equivalent ( P6 ) > then i find a coherence with left frontal. Ans so on with a couple > of other electrodes use as ref channels. > As this symmetry looks awkward to me, is any of you have an idea of > a posible artifact that can cause this, or a possible bias in the > analysis? ( I tripled checked my code) > > Best, > > Rodolphe N., Ph.D. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You > are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the > discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From maess at CBS.MPG.DE Fri Oct 22 09:25:01 2010 From: maess at CBS.MPG.DE (Burkhard Maess) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:25:01 +0200 Subject: ft_channelrepair with neuromag data In-Reply-To: <0A9DF0C3-4149-4874-9E27-C095CC0654AA@donders.ru.nl> Message-ID: Dear David, I agree with Jan-Mathijs. variant a: apply maxfilter - that will repair all broken channels. You also can manually define certain channels as broken. Maxfilter may also align data of different headpositions to a single position. variant b: use megrealign - it includes a minimum norm localization and from there MEG data is forward computed. In this way, you can repair channels, align different head positions to the same and even convert data between different systems. all the best, Burkhard jan-mathijs schoffelen wrote: > Dear David, > > This is a good point. As far as I can see from the code, no > distinction is made between gradiometers and magnetometers. > Naively, I would propose the following: first indeed split the data > into two subset: gradiometers only and magnetometers only, only then > apply the channel reparation routine. Yet, for the gradiometer subset > data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a bad > channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead to > averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal orientation. > > In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I > don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is > desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the noise > (because the combination step results in taking an absolute value). > Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which in > principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would be to > only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and you would > want to interpolate the data back onto the original sensor-array. An > example for interpolating between two types of CTF-systems is shown > here http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. > > Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag software > allow for similar things? > > Best wishes, > > Jan-Mathijs > > On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: > >> Hi Fieldtrippers, >> >> I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some >> missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just wondering >> whether there are any potential problems with using the nearest >> neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the Neuromag >> system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). >> >> If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing bad/missing >> channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a subset of the >> channels, say the gradiometers after I run ft_combineplanar)? >> >> Thanks! >> David >> >> -- >> David A. Ziegler >> Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences >> Massachusetts Institute of Technology >> 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 >> Cambridge, MA 02139 >> Tel: 617-258-0765 >> Fax: 617-253-1504 >> daz at mit.edu >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >> the FieldTrip list. 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What reference electrode(s) did >you use? > >Best, >JM > > > >On Oct 22, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Rodolphe wrote: > >> Dear Fieldtrip users, >> >> I recently run a coherence analysis on my data and i plotted a >> beautiful Topographic plot showing a strong coherence between one >> electrode in left parietal ( P5) and some right frontal electrodes. >> The thing is, when i try with the right parietal equivalent ( P6 ) >> then i find a coherence with left frontal. Ans so on with a couple >> of other electrodes use as ref channels. >> As this symmetry looks awkward to me, is any of you have an idea of >> a posible artifact that can cause this, or a possible bias in the >> analysis? ( I tripled checked my code) >> >> Best, >> >> Rodolphe N., Ph.D. >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You >> are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >> the FieldTrip list. 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See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL Mon Oct 25 12:25:32 2010 From: jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL (jan-mathijs schoffelen) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:25:32 +0200 Subject: Coherence and dipole In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Rodolphe, The problem with coherence analysis on channel level (EEG) data that widely separated electrodes can 'see' the same neuronal sources. Also, they see the same noise (as 'injected' by the choice of reference electrode, which can be a single channel, or the average across all channels). So, every channel contains an unknown mix of interesting brain signal, uninteresting brain signal, and uninteresting noise. Depending on the spatial structure of these 3 components and the way they are mixed per channel determines the observations. Troublesome sources which may cause the effect you are observing, may be quite distant 'dipoles' accounting for the cardiac activity picked up by the EEG electrode array. Although in general I believe that EEG- channel-level coherence analysis is very problematic due to interpretational difficulties, you could see whether your reported spatial patterns change when constructing a Laplacian derivation for each of your electrodes (if the number of electrodes allows for this). Good luck, Jan-Mathijs On Oct 23, 2010, at 12:12 AM, Rodolphe Nenert wrote: > Dear Jan, > > yes i do analyze EEG data. The data was recorded using vertex (CZ) as > reference, but i modified to an average reference before doing any > time-freq > analysis. > > Rodolphe. > > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:04:00 +0200, jan-mathijs schoffelen > wrote: > >> Dear Rodolphe, >> >> I guess you are analyzing EEG data? What reference electrode(s) did >> you use? >> >> Best, >> JM >> >> >> >> On Oct 22, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Rodolphe wrote: >> >>> Dear Fieldtrip users, >>> >>> I recently run a coherence analysis on my data and i plotted a >>> beautiful Topographic plot showing a strong coherence between one >>> electrode in left parietal ( P5) and some right frontal electrodes. >>> The thing is, when i try with the right parietal equivalent ( P6 ) >>> then i find a coherence with left frontal. Ans so on with a couple >>> of other electrodes use as ref channels. >>> As this symmetry looks awkward to me, is any of you have an idea of >>> a posible artifact that can cause this, or a possible bias in the >>> analysis? ( I tripled checked my code) >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Rodolphe N., Ph.D. >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You >>> are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >>> the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the >>> discussion >>> between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences >>> and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. >>> See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html >>> and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >> >> Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen >> Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, >> Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, >> Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands >> J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl >> Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >> the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the >> discussion >> between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences >> and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. >> See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html >> and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the > discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. 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The first one measured the conductivities (or resistivities) of living brain tissue and came to values of 3.51 Ohms*m and 3.91 Ohms*m for grey respectively white matter and 0.80 Ohms*m for the CSF (which are about 0.28, 0.256 and 1.25 S/m). In contrary the second one found a value for 1.79 S/m for CSF at body temperature where it was about 1.4 S/m at room temperature. The Skull-To-Brain conductivity ratio was measured for example in Estimation of /in vivo/ brain-to-skull conductivity ratio in humans by Yingchun Zhang, Wim van Drongelen, and Bin He where they found a ratio of about 1/18.7 which is way larger than the commonly assumed value. I would appreciate very much if many of you could contribute to this discussion by telling us which values you use for the conductivities and on which publications the are based. 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URL: From carsten.wolters at UNI-MUENSTER.DE Mon Oct 25 15:41:24 2010 From: carsten.wolters at UNI-MUENSTER.DE (Dr. Carsten Wolters) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:41:24 +0200 Subject: Forward model conductivities In-Reply-To: <4CC56CC0.5070307@gmx.de> Message-ID: Dear Paul, head tissue conductivities seem to have a larger inter- and intra-subject variability. I attachted a 4-page-proceedings paper with regard to those issues that we recently presented : @InProceedings{CHW:Wol2010, author = "C. H. Wolters and S.Lew and R. S. MacLeod and M. S. H{\"a}m{\"a}l{\"a}inen", title = "Combined {EEG/MEG} source analysis using calibrated finite element head models", booktitle = "Proc. of the 44th Annual Meeting, DGBMT", address = "Rostock-Warnem{\"u}nde, Germany, Oct.5-8, 2010", year = "2010", note = "http://conference.vde.com/bmt-2010", } Best regards Carsten Paul Czienskowski wrote: > Dear all, > > Alexandre Gramford pointed out to me that there was some discussion > ongoing on which conductivities to use for EEG-Forward-Modeling and > I'd like to move this discussion more to public for it could be > interesting for many of us. > I was recently overflying some papers concerned with that very issues > and I made some interesting and discoveries, especially in > > Conductivity of living intracranial tissues. by Latikka J, Kuurne > T, Eskola H. > The electrical conductivity of human cerebrospinal fluid at body > temperature by Baumann et al. > > The first one measured the conductivities (or resistivities) of living > brain tissue and came to values of 3.51 Ohms*m and 3.91 Ohms*m for > grey respectively white matter and 0.80 Ohms*m for the CSF (which are > about 0.28, 0.256 and 1.25 S/m). In contrary the second one found a > value for 1.79 S/m for CSF at body temperature where it was about 1.4 > S/m at room temperature. The Skull-To-Brain conductivity ratio was > measured for example in > > Estimation of /in vivo/ brain-to-skull conductivity ratio in > humans by Yingchun Zhang, Wim van Drongelen, and Bin He > > where they found a ratio of about 1/18.7 which is way larger than the > commonly assumed value. > > I would appreciate very much if many of you could contribute to this > discussion by telling us which values you use for the conductivities > and on which publications the are based. > > Best, > Paul > -- > Paul Czienskowski > Max Planck institute for human development > Lentzeallee 94 > 14195 Berlin > > Björnsonstr. 25 > 12163 Berlin > > Tel.: (+49)(0)30/221609359 > Handy: (+49)(0)1788378772 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. 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My big worry however is not simply to find the ratio (taking individual differences into account). but also to get estimates of the differences in conductivity across the skull. I'm pretty confident that such inhomogeneities are present and that they will have significant effects on the BEM forward models. The inhomogeneities will not only affect the effective depth of sources but also can laterally shift their locations to places on cortex with very different surface normals. An important aspect of our EEG/MEG source localization work is to learn how to calibrate each individual's conductivity partly based on differences in EEG vs MEG localizations. best, Stan On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Paul Czienskowski wrote: > Dear all, > > Alexandre Gramford pointed out to me that there was some discussion ongoing > on which conductivities to use for EEG-Forward-Modeling and I'd like to move > this discussion more to public for it could be interesting for many of us. > I was recently overflying some papers concerned with that very issues and I > made some interesting and discoveries, especially in > > Conductivity of living intracranial tissues. by Latikka J, Kuurne T, Eskola > H. > The electrical conductivity of human cerebrospinal fluid at body > temperature by Baumann et al. > > The first one measured the conductivities (or resistivities) of living > brain tissue and came to values of 3.51 Ohms*m and 3.91 Ohms*m for grey > respectively white matter and 0.80 Ohms*m for the CSF (which are about 0.28, > 0.256 and 1.25 S/m). In contrary the second one found a value for 1.79 S/m > for CSF at body temperature where it was about 1.4 S/m at room temperature. > The Skull-To-Brain conductivity ratio was measured for example in > > Estimation of *in vivo* brain-to-skull conductivity ratio in humans by > Yingchun Zhang, Wim van Drongelen, and Bin He > > where they found a ratio of about 1/18.7 which is way larger than the > commonly assumed value. > > I would appreciate very much if many of you could contribute to this > discussion by telling us which values you use for the conductivities and on > which publications the are based. > > Best, > Paul > > > -- > Paul Czienskowski > Max Planck institute for human development > Lentzeallee 94 > 14195 Berlin > > Björnsonstr. 25 > 12163 Berlin > > Tel.: (+49)(0)30/221609359 > Handy: (+49)(0)1788378772 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. 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URL: From carsten.wolters at UNI-MUENSTER.DE Tue Oct 26 09:11:47 2010 From: carsten.wolters at UNI-MUENSTER.DE (Dr. Carsten Wolters) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:11:47 +0200 Subject: Forward model conductivities In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Stanley and Paul, I agree to what Stanley wrote about the skull inhomogeneities, it fits perfectly to what we described in a recent publication: @Article{CHW:Dan2010, author = {Dannhauer, M. and Lanfer, B. and Wolters, C.H. and Kn{\"o}sche, T.}, title = {Modeling of the Human Skull in {EEG} Source Analysis}, journal = "Human Brain Mapping", note = "DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21114, PMID: 20690140", year = "2010", } Best regards Carsten Stanley Klein wrote: > Dear Paul and Carsten, > The conductivity ratio of 1/20 that you mention is indeed on the low > side of > many present estimates. It is way lower than the Rush & Driscoll 1/80 > ratio that we used in our 30 year old "Ary Correction" paper that > examined > the effect of skull and scalp thickness. My big worry however is > not simply to find the ratio (taking individual differences into > account). but > also to get estimates of the differences in conductivity across the skull. > I'm pretty confident that such inhomogeneities are present and that > they will > have significant effects on the BEM forward models. The inhomogeneities > will not only affect the effective depth of sources but also can > laterally shift > their locations to places on cortex with very different surface normals. > > An important aspect of our EEG/MEG source localization work is to learn > how to calibrate each individual's conductivity partly based on > differences > in EEG vs MEG localizations. > > best, > Stan > > > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Paul Czienskowski > wrote: > > Dear all, > > Alexandre Gramford pointed out to me that there was some > discussion ongoing on which conductivities to use for > EEG-Forward-Modeling and I'd like to move this discussion more to > public for it could be interesting for many of us. > I was recently overflying some papers concerned with that very > issues and I made some interesting and discoveries, especially in > > Conductivity of living intracranial tissues. by Latikka J, > Kuurne T, Eskola H. > The electrical conductivity of human cerebrospinal fluid at > body temperature by Baumann et al. > > The first one measured the conductivities (or resistivities) of > living brain tissue and came to values of 3.51 Ohms*m and 3.91 > Ohms*m for grey respectively white matter and 0.80 Ohms*m for the > CSF (which are about 0.28, 0.256 and 1.25 S/m). In contrary the > second one found a value for 1.79 S/m for CSF at body temperature > where it was about 1.4 S/m at room temperature. The Skull-To-Brain > conductivity ratio was measured for example in > > Estimation of /in vivo/ brain-to-skull conductivity ratio in > humans by Yingchun Zhang, Wim van Drongelen, and Bin He > > where they found a ratio of about 1/18.7 which is way larger than > the commonly assumed value. > > I would appreciate very much if many of you could contribute to > this discussion by telling us which values you use for the > conductivities and on which publications the are based. > > Best, > Paul > > -- > Paul Czienskowski > Max Planck institute for human development > Lentzeallee 94 > 14195 Berlin > > Björnsonstr. 25 > 12163 Berlin > > Tel.: (+49)(0)30/221609359 > Handy: (+49)(0)1788378772 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- PD.Dr.rer.nat. 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See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Nina.Kahlbrock at UNI-DUESSELDORF.DE Tue Oct 26 10:07:33 2010 From: Nina.Kahlbrock at UNI-DUESSELDORF.DE (Nina Kahlbrock) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:07:33 +0200 Subject: AW: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data In-Reply-To: <4CC13C4D.3000603@cbs.mpg.de> Message-ID: Dear Burkhard, I am also working on NM306 data and I have a specific problem repairing broken channels using maxfilter. This email might thus be more suited for the neuromeg discussion list. However, I thought it might be of interest to other NM users as well... What I would like to do is pretty much the same as described in the previous mails: interpolate broken channels and use a standard head position for multiple recordings in one subject. I used fieldtrip's automatic and semi-automatic artifact rejection routines to identify channels that are flat, show jumps and are noisy. I defined these as bad in maxfilter. Then I used sss/tsss to achieve the desired steps. It seemed very straight forward. However, when looking at the results, the signal seems to be increased (and more noisy and jumpy) in certain channels (see attached pdfs of bad and non-bad channel (1st page: raw data, 2nd page: sss data, 3rd page: tsss data). Have you ever experienced anything like this? The only reason I can come up with is that in maxfilter I used the continuous raw data file and not as in fieldtrip, only trials. Between trials there are pauses, where the channels could have been affected by a few movements. Could this explain my difficulties? Is there a way to 'only' interpolate channels and realign the head, without impacting other non-broken channels? Thank you very much for your answer! Nina -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] Im Auftrag von Burkhard Maess Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Oktober 2010 09:25 An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL Betreff: Re: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data Dear David, I agree with Jan-Mathijs. variant a: apply maxfilter - that will repair all broken channels. You also can manually define certain channels as broken. Maxfilter may also align data of different headpositions to a single position. variant b: use megrealign - it includes a minimum norm localization and from there MEG data is forward computed. In this way, you can repair channels, align different head positions to the same and even convert data between different systems. all the best, Burkhard jan-mathijs schoffelen wrote: > Dear David, > > This is a good point. As far as I can see from the code, no > distinction is made between gradiometers and magnetometers. > Naively, I would propose the following: first indeed split the data > into two subset: gradiometers only and magnetometers only, only then > apply the channel reparation routine. Yet, for the gradiometer subset > data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a bad > channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead to > averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal orientation. > > In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I > don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is > desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the noise > (because the combination step results in taking an absolute value). > Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which in > principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would be to > only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and you would > want to interpolate the data back onto the original sensor-array. An > example for interpolating between two types of CTF-systems is shown > here http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. > > Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag software > allow for similar things? > > Best wishes, > > Jan-Mathijs > > On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: > >> Hi Fieldtrippers, >> >> I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some >> missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just wondering >> whether there are any potential problems with using the nearest >> neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the Neuromag >> system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). >> >> If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing bad/missing >> channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a subset of the >> channels, say the gradiometers after I run ft_combineplanar)? >> >> Thanks! >> David >> >> -- >> David A. Ziegler >> Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences >> Massachusetts Institute of Technology >> 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 >> Cambridge, MA 02139 >> Tel: 617-258-0765 >> Fax: 617-253-1504 >> daz at mit.edu >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >> the FieldTrip list. 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We shall continue the discussion here when we know the reason for this strange behavior. best wishes, Burkhard Nina Kahlbrock wrote: > Dear Burkhard, > I am also working on NM306 data and I have a specific problem repairing > broken channels using maxfilter. This email might thus be more suited for > the neuromeg discussion list. However, I thought it might be of interest to > other NM users as well... > What I would like to do is pretty much the same as described in the previous > mails: interpolate broken channels and use a standard head position for > multiple recordings in one subject. > I used fieldtrip's automatic and semi-automatic artifact rejection routines > to identify channels that are flat, show jumps and are noisy. I defined > these as bad in maxfilter. Then I used sss/tsss to achieve the desired > steps. It seemed very straight forward. > However, when looking at the results, the signal seems to be increased (and > more noisy and jumpy) in certain channels (see attached pdfs of bad and > non-bad channel (1st page: raw data, 2nd page: sss data, 3rd page: tsss > data). Have you ever experienced anything like this? The only reason I can > come up with is that in maxfilter I used the continuous raw data file and > not as in fieldtrip, only trials. Between trials there are pauses, where the > channels could have been affected by a few movements. Could this explain my > difficulties? > Is there a way to 'only' interpolate channels and realign the head, without > impacting other non-broken channels? > Thank you very much for your answer! > Nina > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] Im Auftrag > von Burkhard Maess > Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Oktober 2010 09:25 > An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL > Betreff: Re: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data > > Dear David, > > I agree with Jan-Mathijs. > > variant a: apply maxfilter - that will repair all broken channels. You > also can manually define certain channels as broken. Maxfilter may also > align data of different headpositions to a single position. > > variant b: use megrealign - it includes a minimum norm localization and > from there MEG data is forward computed. In this way, you can repair > channels, align different head positions to the same and even convert > data between different systems. > > all the best, > Burkhard > > > jan-mathijs schoffelen wrote: > >> Dear David, >> >> This is a good point. As far as I can see from the code, no >> distinction is made between gradiometers and magnetometers. >> Naively, I would propose the following: first indeed split the data >> into two subset: gradiometers only and magnetometers only, only then >> apply the channel reparation routine. Yet, for the gradiometer subset >> data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a bad >> channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead to >> averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal orientation. >> >> In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I >> don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is >> desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the noise >> (because the combination step results in taking an absolute value). >> Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which in >> principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would be to >> only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and you would >> want to interpolate the data back onto the original sensor-array. An >> example for interpolating between two types of CTF-systems is shown >> here http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. >> >> Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag software >> allow for similar things? >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Jan-Mathijs >> >> On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: >> >> >>> Hi Fieldtrippers, >>> >>> I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some >>> missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just wondering >>> whether there are any potential problems with using the nearest >>> neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the Neuromag >>> system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). >>> >>> If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing bad/missing >>> channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a subset of the >>> channels, say the gradiometers after I run ft_combineplanar)? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> David >>> >>> -- >>> David A. Ziegler >>> Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences >>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology >>> 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 >>> Cambridge, MA 02139 >>> Tel: 617-258-0765 >>> Fax: 617-253-1504 >>> daz at mit.edu >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >>> the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion >>> between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences >>> and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. >>> See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html >>> and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. >>> >>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen >> Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, >> Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, >> Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands >> J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl >> Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 >> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >> the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion >> between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences >> and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. >> See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html >> and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Burkhard Maess Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Stephanstr. 1a, P.O. Box 500355, D-04303 Leipzig Aussenstelle Bennewitz, phone/fax: +49(3425)887525-26/-11 mail: maess 'at' cbs.mpg.de, http://www.cbs.mpg.de ------------------------------------------------------------ Please do not attach files which may contain executable code, e.g. .rtf is preferred over .doc(x) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From e.vandenbroeke at ANES.UMCN.NL Tue Oct 26 16:25:24 2010 From: e.vandenbroeke at ANES.UMCN.NL (Emanuel van den Broeke) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:25:24 +0200 Subject: non-parametric cluster-based analysis Message-ID: Dear fieldtrip users, I would like to know if I it is allowed to do three single non-parametric cluster based analyses and use IndepT-statistics, if I will test three groups (group A vs B, B vs C and A vs C) by . And is it then nescessarily to adjust post-hoc the p-value of all three comparisons because of multiple comparisons? Thanx! Emanuel --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From batrod at GMAIL.COM Wed Oct 27 01:08:23 2010 From: batrod at GMAIL.COM (Rodolphe Nenert) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:08:23 +0200 Subject: non-parametric cluster-based analysis Message-ID: Dear Emmanuel, If i understand correctly you want to rank your 3 groups on a particular condition using the cluster correction. On normal data you would face the multiple comparison problem and would need to correct. Here, this need to be confirmed, the problem is you're doing cluster correction. Therefore, the significant cluster you may find between your groups may vary in "shape". Ranking is thus probably nonsense. Still, this analysis will tell you what is significantly different between two groups. If you want to rank your 3 groups you can choose relevant electrodes and make an ANOVA, or if you want to stay with non-parametric, a Kruskal- Wallis. Hope this helps, maybe someone else will have a better answer to your problem, Rodolphe. On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:25:24 +0200, wrote: >Dear fieldtrip users, > >I would like to know if I it is allowed to do three single non-parametric cluster >based analyses and use IndepT-statistics, if I will test three groups (group A >vs B, B vs C and A vs C) by . And is it then nescessarily to adjust post-hoc >the p-value of all three comparisons because of multiple comparisons? > >Thanx! >Emanuel > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion >between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences >and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. >See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html >and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From e.maris at DONDERS.RU.NL Wed Oct 27 07:33:36 2010 From: e.maris at DONDERS.RU.NL (Eric Maris) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:33:36 +0200 Subject: non-parametric cluster-based analysis In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi Emanuel, > I would like to know if I it is allowed to do three single non- > parametric cluster > based analyses and use IndepT-statistics, if I will test three groups > (group A > vs B, B vs C and A vs C) by . And is it then nescessarily to adjust > post-hoc > the p-value of all three comparisons because of multiple comparisons? Yes, this is required. Alternatively, you may run a single three-group analysis using the indepsamplesF statistic. Here, you test the null hypothesis that the observations in the three groups are all drawn from the same probability distribution. Best, Eric > > Thanx! > Emanuel > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the > discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From daz at MIT.EDU Wed Oct 27 17:01:46 2010 From: daz at MIT.EDU (David Ziegler) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:01:46 -0400 Subject: AW: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data In-Reply-To: <4CC69576.5090501@cbs.mpg.de> Message-ID: Hi Burkdard and Nina, First off, thanks for the great advice Burkhard (and Jan-Mathijs). Following your advice, I processed my raw neuromag data with maxfilter, and I ended up with some results that are quite similar to what Nina is seeing. This doesn't happen for all of my subjects, but for about half of them, I get increased noise in select channels following maxfilter. I believe I used maxfilter v2.0 and my command line was: maxfilter -f $f_i{each subject's fif file} -origin 0 0 40 -frame head -autobad 30 -badlimit 7 -in 8 -out 3 -trans default You mentioned that this should probably be posted to the neuromag list, but I am not currently on that list and wasn't able to find it with a quick search. I'd be happy to repost there if you point me to the sign-up page. Thanks! David On 10/26/2010 4:46 AM, Burkhard Maess wrote: > Dear Nina, > > indeed this looks funny. I have seen that maxfilter sometimes has > produced unexpected results, but usually the channels have less noise > after transformation. Your displays demonstrate the problem, but > provide insufficient information to search for origin of it. I think, > it is necessary to place one of these files to an ftp-server together > with the list of bad channels you have used and the version of > maxfilter. I would recommend to ask Jukka Nennonen for help because he > is the maxfilter-pro and the displayed result should not show up. We > shall continue the discussion here when we know the reason for this > strange behavior. > > best wishes, > Burkhard > > > > Nina Kahlbrock wrote: >> Dear Burkhard, >> I am also working on NM306 data and I have a specific problem repairing >> broken channels using maxfilter. This email might thus be more suited >> for >> the neuromeg discussion list. However, I thought it might be of >> interest to >> other NM users as well... >> What I would like to do is pretty much the same as described in the >> previous >> mails: interpolate broken channels and use a standard head position for >> multiple recordings in one subject. >> I used fieldtrip's automatic and semi-automatic artifact rejection >> routines >> to identify channels that are flat, show jumps and are noisy. I defined >> these as bad in maxfilter. Then I used sss/tsss to achieve the desired >> steps. It seemed very straight forward. However, when looking at the >> results, the signal seems to be increased (and >> more noisy and jumpy) in certain channels (see attached pdfs of bad and >> non-bad channel (1st page: raw data, 2nd page: sss data, 3rd page: tsss >> data). Have you ever experienced anything like this? The only reason >> I can >> come up with is that in maxfilter I used the continuous raw data file >> and >> not as in fieldtrip, only trials. Between trials there are pauses, >> where the >> channels could have been affected by a few movements. Could this >> explain my >> difficulties? >> Is there a way to 'only' interpolate channels and realign the head, >> without >> impacting other non-broken channels? >> Thank you very much for your answer! >> Nina >> >> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] Im >> Auftrag >> von Burkhard Maess >> Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Oktober 2010 09:25 >> An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL >> Betreff: Re: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data >> >> Dear David, >> >> I agree with Jan-Mathijs. >> >> variant a: apply maxfilter - that will repair all broken channels. >> You also can manually define certain channels as broken. Maxfilter >> may also align data of different headpositions to a single position. >> >> variant b: use megrealign - it includes a minimum norm localization >> and from there MEG data is forward computed. In this way, you can >> repair channels, align different head positions to the same and even >> convert data between different systems. >> >> all the best, >> Burkhard >> >> >> jan-mathijs schoffelen wrote: >>> Dear David, >>> >>> This is a good point. As far as I can see from the code, no >>> distinction is made between gradiometers and magnetometers. >>> Naively, I would propose the following: first indeed split the data >>> into two subset: gradiometers only and magnetometers only, only then >>> apply the channel reparation routine. Yet, for the gradiometer >>> subset data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a >>> bad channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead >>> to averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal >>> orientation. >>> >>> In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I >>> don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is >>> desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the >>> noise (because the combination step results in taking an absolute >>> value). Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which >>> in principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would >>> be to only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and >>> you would want to interpolate the data back onto the original >>> sensor-array. An example for interpolating between two types of >>> CTF-systems is shown here >>> http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. >>> >>> Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag >>> software allow for similar things? >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> >>> Jan-Mathijs >>> On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Fieldtrippers, >>>> >>>> I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some >>>> missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just >>>> wondering whether there are any potential problems with using the >>>> nearest neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the >>>> Neuromag system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). >>>> If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing >>>> bad/missing channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a >>>> subset of the channels, say the gradiometers after I run >>>> ft_combineplanar)? >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> David >>>> >>>> -- >>>> David A. Ziegler >>>> Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute >>>> of Technology 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 Cambridge, MA 02139 >>>> Tel: 617-258-0765 >>>> Fax: 617-253-1504 >>>> daz at mit.edu >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>>> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the >>>> FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the >>>> discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share >>>> experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See >>>> also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and >>>> http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. >>>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>> Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen Donders Institute for Brain, >>> Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, >>> Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands >>> J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl >>> Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 >>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >>> the FieldTrip list. 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Following your advice, I processed my raw neuromag data with maxfilter, and I ended up with some results that are quite similar to what Nina is seeing. This doesn't happen for all of my subjects, but for about half of them, I get increased noise in select channels following maxfilter. I believe I used maxfilter v2.0 and my command line was: maxfilter -f $f_i{each subject's fif file} -origin 0 0 40 -frame head -autobad 30 -badlimit 7 -in 8 -out 3 -trans default You mentioned that this should probably be posted to the neuromag list, but I am not currently on that list and wasn't able to find it with a quick search. I'd be happy to repost there if you point me to the sign-up page. Thanks! David On 10/26/2010 4:46 AM, Burkhard Maess wrote: Dear Nina, indeed this looks funny. I have seen that maxfilter sometimes has produced unexpected results, but usually the channels have less noise after transformation. Your displays demonstrate the problem, but provide insufficient information to search for origin of it. I think, it is necessary to place one of these files to an ftp-server together with the list of bad channels you have used and the version of maxfilter. I would recommend to ask Jukka Nennonen for help because he is the maxfilter-pro and the displayed result should not show up. We shall continue the discussion here when we know the reason for this strange behavior. best wishes, Burkhard Nina Kahlbrock wrote: Dear Burkhard, I am also working on NM306 data and I have a specific problem repairing broken channels using maxfilter. This email might thus be more suited for the neuromeg discussion list. However, I thought it might be of interest to other NM users as well... What I would like to do is pretty much the same as described in the previous mails: interpolate broken channels and use a standard head position for multiple recordings in one subject. I used fieldtrip's automatic and semi-automatic artifact rejection routines to identify channels that are flat, show jumps and are noisy. I defined these as bad in maxfilter. Then I used sss/tsss to achieve the desired steps. It seemed very straight forward. However, when looking at the results, the signal seems to be increased (and more noisy and jumpy) in certain channels (see attached pdfs of bad and non-bad channel (1st page: raw data, 2nd page: sss data, 3rd page: tsss data). Have you ever experienced anything like this? The only reason I can come up with is that in maxfilter I used the continuous raw data file and not as in fieldtrip, only trials. Between trials there are pauses, where the channels could have been affected by a few movements. Could this explain my difficulties? Is there a way to 'only' interpolate channels and realign the head, without impacting other non-broken channels? Thank you very much for your answer! Nina -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] Im Auftrag von Burkhard Maess Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Oktober 2010 09:25 An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL Betreff: Re: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data Dear David, I agree with Jan-Mathijs. variant a: apply maxfilter - that will repair all broken channels. You also can manually define certain channels as broken. Maxfilter may also align data of different headpositions to a single position. variant b: use megrealign - it includes a minimum norm localization and from there MEG data is forward computed. In this way, you can repair channels, align different head positions to the same and even convert data between different systems. all the best, Burkhard jan-mathijs schoffelen wrote: Dear David, This is a good point. As far as I can see from the code, no distinction is made between gradiometers and magnetometers. Naively, I would propose the following: first indeed split the data into two subset: gradiometers only and magnetometers only, only then apply the channel reparation routine. Yet, for the gradiometer subset data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a bad channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead to averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal orientation. In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the noise (because the combination step results in taking an absolute value). Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which in principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would be to only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and you would want to interpolate the data back onto the original sensor-array. An example for interpolating between two types of CTF-systems is shown here http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag software allow for similar things? Best wishes, Jan-Mathijs On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: Hi Fieldtrippers, I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just wondering whether there are any potential problems with using the nearest neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the Neuromag system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing bad/missing channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a subset of the channels, say the gradiometers after I run ft_combineplanar)? Thanks! David -- David A. Ziegler Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 Cambridge, MA 02139 Tel: 617-258-0765 Fax: 617-253-1504 daz at mit.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- David A. 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David On 10/27/2010 11:26 AM, Nina Kahlbrock wrote: > > Hi David, > > the link for the neuromeg discussion list is: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=NEUROMEG > > I am currently discussing those problems with the Elekta Neuromag > support. I will let you know as soon as this has come to a conclusion. > > Cheers, > > Nina > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *Von:*FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] *Im > Auftrag von *David Ziegler > *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 27. Oktober 2010 17:02 > *An:* FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL > *Betreff:* Re: [FIELDTRIP] AW: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with > neuromag data > > Hi Burkdard and Nina, > > First off, thanks for the great advice Burkhard (and Jan-Mathijs). > Following your advice, I processed my raw neuromag data with > maxfilter, and I ended up with some results that are quite similar to > what Nina is seeing. This doesn't happen for all of my subjects, but > for about half of them, I get increased noise in select channels > following maxfilter. I believe I used maxfilter v2.0 and my command > line was: > > maxfilter -f $f_i{each subject's fif file} -origin 0 0 40 -frame head > -autobad 30 -badlimit 7 -in 8 -out 3 -trans default > > You mentioned that this should probably be posted to the neuromag > list, but I am not currently on that list and wasn't able to find it > with a quick search. I'd be happy to repost there if you point me to > the sign-up page. > > Thanks! > David > > > On 10/26/2010 4:46 AM, Burkhard Maess wrote: > > Dear Nina, > > indeed this looks funny. I have seen that maxfilter sometimes has > produced unexpected results, but usually the channels have less noise > after transformation. Your displays demonstrate the problem, but > provide insufficient information to search for origin of it. I think, > it is necessary to place one of these files to an ftp-server together > with the list of bad channels you have used and the version of > maxfilter. I would recommend to ask Jukka Nennonen for help because he > is the maxfilter-pro and the displayed result should not show up. We > shall continue the discussion here when we know the reason for this > strange behavior. > > best wishes, > Burkhard > > > > Nina Kahlbrock wrote: > > Dear Burkhard, > I am also working on NM306 data and I have a specific problem repairing > broken channels using maxfilter. This email might thus be more suited for > the neuromeg discussion list. However, I thought it might be of > interest to > other NM users as well... > What I would like to do is pretty much the same as described in the > previous > mails: interpolate broken channels and use a standard head position for > multiple recordings in one subject. > I used fieldtrip's automatic and semi-automatic artifact rejection > routines > to identify channels that are flat, show jumps and are noisy. I defined > these as bad in maxfilter. Then I used sss/tsss to achieve the desired > steps. It seemed very straight forward. However, when looking at the > results, the signal seems to be increased (and > more noisy and jumpy) in certain channels (see attached pdfs of bad and > non-bad channel (1st page: raw data, 2nd page: sss data, 3rd page: tsss > data). Have you ever experienced anything like this? The only reason I > can > come up with is that in maxfilter I used the continuous raw data file and > not as in fieldtrip, only trials. Between trials there are pauses, > where the > channels could have been affected by a few movements. Could this > explain my > difficulties? > Is there a way to 'only' interpolate channels and realign the head, > without > impacting other non-broken channels? > Thank you very much for your answer! > Nina > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] Im > Auftrag > von Burkhard Maess > Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Oktober 2010 09:25 > An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL > Betreff: Re: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data > > Dear David, > > I agree with Jan-Mathijs. > > variant a: apply maxfilter - that will repair all broken channels. You > also can manually define certain channels as broken. Maxfilter may > also align data of different headpositions to a single position. > > variant b: use megrealign - it includes a minimum norm localization > and from there MEG data is forward computed. In this way, you can > repair channels, align different head positions to the same and even > convert data between different systems. > > all the best, > Burkhard > > > jan-mathijs schoffelen wrote: > > Dear David, > > This is a good point. As far as I can see from the code, no > distinction is made between gradiometers and magnetometers. > Naively, I would propose the following: first indeed split the data > into two subset: gradiometers only and magnetometers only, only then > apply the channel reparation routine. Yet, for the gradiometer subset > data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a bad > channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead to > averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal orientation. > > In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I > don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is > desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the noise > (because the combination step results in taking an absolute value). > Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which in > principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would be to > only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and you would > want to interpolate the data back onto the original sensor-array. An > example for interpolating between two types of CTF-systems is shown > here http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. > > Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag software > allow for similar things? > > Best wishes, > > Jan-Mathijs > On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: > > Hi Fieldtrippers, > > I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some > missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just wondering > whether there are any potential problems with using the nearest > neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the Neuromag > system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). > If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing bad/missing > channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a subset of the > channels, say the gradiometers after I run ft_combineplanar)? > > Thanks! > David > > -- > David A. Ziegler > Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of > Technology 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 Cambridge, MA 02139 > Tel: 617-258-0765 > Fax: 617-253-1504 > daz at mit.edu > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the >> FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion >> between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to >> discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also >> http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and >> http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen Donders Institute for Brain, > Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, > Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands > J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl > > Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > > David A. Ziegler > > Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 > Cambridge, MA 02139 > > Tel: 617-258-0765 > > Fax: 617-253-1504 > > daz at mit.edu > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. 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The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From recasensmarc at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 28 19:11:55 2010 From: recasensmarc at GMAIL.COM (Marc Recasens) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:11:55 +0200 Subject: Remove muscle artifacts using ICA Message-ID: Dear all, I have quite a naive question. I'm processing some MEG (4-D) datasets in order to use source location methods afterwards. One of my concerns is that I have some channels (3 in a row) with a steady high frequency artifact >50Hz (I thought it is muscle activity, However it is very tonic and present during the whole recording) which is within my frequencies of interest. This can be seen in the attached figures: timelocked responses bandpass filtered between 15 and 150 Hz, and time-frequency activity between 50 and 100 Hz. As the artefactual channels are put altogether in the right edge of the sensor array (A148, A147 and A146) interpolation may not be a suitable method to eliminate those artefactual channels. (?) I was wondering whether it is possible to correct those artifacts using ICA in such a way similar to ECG artifact removal using component analysis, that is, by identifying and remove those components in the source analysis that explain the high-frequency artifacts present in some of my channels. Thanks a lot. -- Marc Recasens Tel.: +34 639 24 15 98 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL Fri Oct 29 09:52:57 2010 From: jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL (jan-mathijs schoffelen) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:52:57 +0200 Subject: Remove muscle artifacts using ICA In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Marc, Your figures seem to be missing, so it is hard to judge what the artifacts look like exactly. Could it be that one of your head localization coils was switched on througout the measurement? In general, if your goal is to do source localization, I would not try to fix ugly channels, but just omit them from the sensor-array, because there will be plenty of sensors left. The fixing operation (whatever way it is done, e.g. nearest neighbour interpolation, ICA etc) involves replacing each channel's estimate by a linear combination of a subset of/all other channels. You have to keep in mind that the solution to the forward model (i.e. the leadfields for the sources you want to estimate) have to take the same linear operation into account in order to give correct results. As such, irrespective of the fact that the noisy channels are on the edge of the array, interpolation does not really make sense, because you are not really improving the quality of your total signal array. Also, in this case, I don't expect that rejecting the independent component capturing the artifact will be that beneficial, because most likely the spatial topography of this component of this component will be confined to the three bad guys, with more or less random loadings on the rest of the channels. Did you check whether the artifact is present at the level of the reference sensors? If that's the case, you could consider applying the cfw and afw (compute fixed weights, and apply fixed weights) utilities from the 4D software. Best wishes Jan-Mathijs On Oct 28, 2010, at 7:11 PM, Marc Recasens wrote: > Dear all, > > I have quite a naive question. > I'm processing some MEG (4-D) datasets in order to use source > location methods afterwards. One of my concerns is that I have some > channels (3 in a row) with a steady high frequency artifact >50Hz (I > thought it is muscle activity, However it is very tonic and present > during the whole recording) which is within my frequencies of > interest. This can be seen in the attached figures: timelocked > responses bandpass filtered between 15 and 150 Hz, and time- > frequency activity between 50 and 100 Hz. > As the artefactual channels are put altogether in the right edge of > the sensor array (A148, A147 and A146) interpolation may not be a > suitable method to eliminate those artefactual channels. (?) > > I was wondering whether it is possible to correct those artifacts > using ICA in such a way similar to ECG artifact removal using > component analysis, that is, by identifying and remove those > components in the source analysis that explain the high-frequency > artifacts present in some of my channels. > > Thanks a lot. > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Marc Recasens > Tel.: +34 639 24 15 98 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You > are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the > discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. J.M. 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Thanks in advance, Sangi ---------------------------------- The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From e.maris at DONDERS.RU.NL Fri Oct 1 21:10:09 2010 From: e.maris at DONDERS.RU.NL (Eric Maris) Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 21:10:09 +0200 Subject: coherence and inter-trial coherence questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Matteo, I have two questions regarding statistical tests: first one regarding coherence differences, second one pertaining testing inter-trial coherence. We are analysing MEG data from an auditory experiment with 5 subjects. We considered the deviant stimulus as the only stimulus in the recordings, while the standard one was considered as baseline activity. We analysed the TFR data in both designs: within-trial and within-subject using respectively "actvsblT" and "depsamplesT" statistics. In both cases we compared a time interval extracted from the baseline versus a time interval from the deviant stimulus response. We wish to assess coherence differences using "indepsampleZcoh" statistic in both single-subject and multiple-subject cases. In a previous post Dr. Maris replied that this statistic only works in a between-trial design (for single-subject case) and suggested to compare the different conditions as they were un-paired. We exploited this idea for the single-subject case and we would like to know if it is legitimate to extend the same idea for the multiple-subject situation? In the multiple-subject situation, you should first calculate the two coherences (one for the deviant stimulus and one for the baseline condition) for every subject. These coherences should be compared using depsamplesT (and not using indepsamplesZcoh, which only works for a single-subject study). I'm fairly sure that the testing of coherence in a multiple subject study has already been addressed in the Fieldtrip discussion list. I think it was Jan-Matthijs Schoffelen who gave a extensive description on how to do it. Furthermore we would like to know if there is a way to test inter-trial coherence differences in Fieldtrip? In a previous post Stephan suggested how to deal with the problem; is it already implemented? If it has been implemented, I'm not aware of it. However, if you are a little bit proficient in Matlab programming, you can write you own statfun and have Fieldtrip apply it to your data. By debugging a statistical analysis that uses a built-in statfun, you can learn how the algorithm works. 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If you encounter any problems please contact: meg at med.uni-tuebingen.de . -- Dr. Hubert Preissl MEG-Center phone: ++49-(0)7071-2987704 Otfried Mueller Str 47 fax: ++49-(0)7071-295706 72076 Tübingen, Germany email: hubert.preissl at uni-tuebingen.de ---------------------------------- The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sangita.dandekar at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 5 13:56:32 2010 From: sangita.dandekar at GMAIL.COM (Sangita Dandekar) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 07:56:32 -0400 Subject: baseline, combine_planar, and freqanalysis In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thought I'd try reposting once, since I happened to send this on a weekend and didn't receive any reply. Sorry for the repost. Thanks, Sangi ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sangita Dandekar Date: Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:00 PM Subject: baseline, combine_planar, and freqanalysis To: FieldTrip discussion list Hi, I'm wondering about the optimal order in which to apply combine_planar and baselining (relative to a pretrial time window) to time-frequency power spectra data. Does it make more sense to do: A: 1. meg_planar 2. freqanalysis 3. combine_planar 4. freqbaseline (on a trial by trial basis? see below) or B: 1. meg_planar 2. freqanalysis 3. freqbaseline(on a trial by trial basis? see below) 4. combine_planar Also, are there any opinions on whether baselining on a trial by trial basis is preferable or if it might be better to instead baseline with respect to the average of all pretrial baseline power spectra? Thanks in advance, Sangi --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. 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Else, if you subtract amplitudes or power values per spatial direction separately a relatively uninterpretable quantity (because spatial angles between task and baseline would play a major role) results after combineplanar. This is because of the effect of different gradient field angles between task and baseline. So the only viable way seems to be to correct after combineplanar. The implicit assumptions then is however, that source configuration (orientation) does not change between task and baseline, this should be justified/discussed for the case at hand. This problem does not occur for axial quantities as there is no loss of spatial information there. Hope this helps, please also let me know if you (or anyone else) disagrees! Michael PS: If anyone knows how to quantify spectral power of *arbitrary time varying vector fields* (not linearly or circularily polarized ones) uniquely and without assumptions on correlations between vector components please post it to the list. --------------------- Von: "Sangita Dandekar" Gesendet: Oct 5, 2010 1:56:32 PM An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL Betreff: [FIELDTRIP] baseline, combine_planar, and freqanalysis Thought I'd try reposting once, since I happened to send this on a weekend and didn't receive any reply. Sorry for the repost. Thanks, Sangi ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sangita Dandekar <[sangita.dandekar at gmail.com]> Date: Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:00 PM Subject: baseline, combine_planar, and freqanalysis To: FieldTrip discussion list <[FIELDTRIP at nic.surfnet.nl]> Hi, I'm wondering about the optimal order in which to apply combine_planar and baselining (relative to a pretrial time window) to time-frequency power spectra data. Does it make more sense to do: A: 1. meg_planar 2. freqanalysis 3. combine_planar 4. freqbaseline (on a trial by trial basis? see below) or B: 1. meg_planar 2. freqanalysis 3. freqbaseline(on a trial by trial basis? see below) 4. combine_planar Also, are there any opinions on whether baselining on a trial by trial basis is preferable or if it might be better to instead baseline with respect to the average of all pretrial baseline power spectra? Thanks in advance, Sangi --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. 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Michael -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: "" Gesendet: Oct 8, 2010 2:59:28 PM An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL Betreff: [FIELDTRIP] What if there are no negative clusters? >Dear people >Who can answer my question? > >So I understand that is always the best to test two-sided with the non- >parametric permutation test, because one is interested in both directions of >the effect; so both the positive and negative clusters. but what if your >observed dat shows no negative clusters? There is no negative cluster >detected above the threshold. Do you still have to use an alpha of 0.025 then? > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >the FieldTrip list. 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See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From akiko at NYU.EDU Mon Oct 11 00:54:28 2010 From: akiko at NYU.EDU (Akiko Ikkai) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:54:28 -0400 Subject: plotting plv In-Reply-To: <1704750977.1475589.1286480070322.JavaMail.fmail@mwmweb056> Message-ID: Hi, I'm trying to plot plv between channel pairs that I get from ft_connectivityanalysis. when I run cfg = []; cfg.xparam = 'time'; cfg.yparam = 'freq'; cfg.zparam = 'cohsprctm'; % need to run stat.cohsprctm = stat.plvspctrm; % fixed in the latest version? cfg.cohrefchannel = '1'; cfg.layout = 'ordered'; cfg.showlabels = 'yes'; cfg.colorbar = 'yes'; figure; ft_multiplotTFR(cfg, stat) I get this error: ft_multiplotTFR(cfg, stat) ??? Index exceeds matrix dimensions. Error in ==> ft_multiplotTFR at 242 datavector = data.(cfg.zparam)(seldat,yidc,xidc); ... I'm guessing the error is something like wrong channel combination or refchannel selection, but not able to locate where the error is coming from (have tried different channel combination). stat.dimord is "chan_chan_freq_time", which might not be formatted appropriately for ft_multiplotTFR...? Below, I'm attaching the code used to get "stat" (plv). Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! Akiko %%%%% code for connectivityanalysis %%%%%% cfg = []; cfg.output ='fourier'; % instead of 'powandcsd'... fixed in the latest version? cfg.method = 'mtmconvol'; cfg.channel = {'1', '7', '120'}; % contra & unrelated channels to test cfg.channelcmb = {'1' '7'; '1' '120'; '7', '120'}; cfg.keeptrials = 'yes'; cfg.keeptapers = 'no'; cfg.toi = [-.8:.1:2] cfg.foi = [1:0.5:30]; cfg.taper = 'hanning'; cfg.t_ftimwin = zeros(1,length(cfg.foi)); cfg.t_ftimwin(:) = 5./cfg.foi; TFR = ft_freqanalysis(cfg, ft_data); cfg=[]; cfg.method = 'plv'; [stat] = ft_connectivityanalysis(cfg, TFR); --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL Mon Oct 11 09:17:29 2010 From: jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL (jan-mathijs schoffelen) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:17:29 +0200 Subject: plotting plv In-Reply-To: <5a40df8d99c3d.4cb20be4@mail.nyu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Akiko, A small comment first: there's a type in the naming of your zparam 'cohsprctm' should probably read 'cohspctrm', but I don't think that this is the show stopper. Next, I guess that given your configuration for ft_freqanalysis, the eventual output of ft_connectivityanalysis is a 3x3xNfreqxNtime - matrix containing plv-values. Is that correct? I do not understand why the visualization fails, but it seems that the correct part of the code is not reached. Could you save the variable 'stat' to a file and upload it to our ftp- server, so that we can reproduce your bug. Recently we spent quite some time in streamlining the visualisation for this type of data and I am pretty sure that in your case it just should work. Please have a look at http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/faq/how_should_i_send_example_data_to_the_developers to upload your data. Best, Jan-Mathijs On Oct 11, 2010, at 12:54 AM, Akiko Ikkai wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to plot plv between channel pairs that I get from > ft_connectivityanalysis. > > when I run > cfg = []; > cfg.xparam = 'time'; > cfg.yparam = 'freq'; > cfg.zparam = 'cohsprctm'; % need to run stat.cohsprctm = > stat.plvspctrm; > % fixed in the > latest version? > cfg.cohrefchannel = '1'; > cfg.layout = 'ordered'; > cfg.showlabels = 'yes'; > cfg.colorbar = 'yes'; > figure; ft_multiplotTFR(cfg, stat) > > I get this error: > ft_multiplotTFR(cfg, stat) > ??? Index exceeds matrix dimensions. > > Error in ==> ft_multiplotTFR at 242 > datavector = data.(cfg.zparam)(seldat,yidc,xidc); > > > ... I'm guessing the error is something like wrong channel > combination or refchannel selection, but not able to locate where > the error is coming from (have tried different channel combination). > stat.dimord is "chan_chan_freq_time", which might not be formatted > appropriately for ft_multiplotTFR...? Below, I'm attaching the code > used to get "stat" (plv). > > Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! Akiko > > > %%%%% code for connectivityanalysis %%%%%% > cfg = []; > cfg.output ='fourier'; % instead of 'powandcsd'... fixed in the > latest version? > cfg.method = 'mtmconvol'; > cfg.channel = {'1', '7', '120'}; % contra & unrelated channels to test > cfg.channelcmb = {'1' '7'; '1' '120'; '7', '120'}; > cfg.keeptrials = 'yes'; > cfg.keeptapers = 'no'; > cfg.toi = [-.8:.1:2] > cfg.foi = [1:0.5:30]; > cfg.taper = 'hanning'; > cfg.t_ftimwin = zeros(1,length(cfg.foi)); > cfg.t_ftimwin(:) = 5./cfg.foi; > TFR = ft_freqanalysis(cfg, ft_data); > > cfg=[]; > cfg.method = 'plv'; > [stat] = ft_connectivityanalysis(cfg, TFR); > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. 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See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From michael.wibral at WEB.DE Mon Oct 11 12:16:33 2010 From: michael.wibral at WEB.DE (Michael Wibral) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:16:33 +0200 Subject: one sided or two sided testing In-Reply-To: <015801cb66f3$2a6ec660$7f4c5320$@maris@donders.ru.nl> Message-ID: Dear Emanual, just a comment on the posts below. 'Prior' knowledge should come from independent data - e.g. collected in a different experiment or from another finding in the literature. It's best if you find some prior knowledge that you can *CITE* - otherwise it'll typically get pretty difficult to publish your one-sided test. I guess you knew this already (so please do not feel insulted by this post), just wanted to save you the trouble with reviewers in the very unlikely event that you didn't. Good luck for your study, Michael -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: "Eric Maris" Gesendet: Oct 8, 2010 4:14:43 PM An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL Betreff: Re: [FIELDTRIP] one sided or two sided testing >Dear Emanuel, > > >> If you have prior knowledge that the ERP is to be expected to be lower >> in one >> group as compared to the other group of subjects is it then allowed to >> only >> test the positive T-sum clusters (alpha 0.05) and neglect the negative >> clusters? > >Yes, this is allowed. Such a procedure controls the false alarm rate at >0.05. > > >Best, > >Eric Maris > > > >> >> Thank you in advance, >> Best, Emanuel >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >> the FieldTrip list. 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If you wish to receive further information please contact the Director of the CIMeC, Prof. Alfonso Caramazza (alfonso.caramazza at unitn.it) or Vice-Director Prof. Giorgio Vallortigara (giorgio.vallortigara at unitn.it) by November 15, 2010. ------------------------ Prof. Jens Schwarzbach Functional NeuroImaging Laboratories, MR Lab Co-Director Center for Mind Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Via delle Regole, 101, 38100 Mattarello (TN), Italy Telephone: +39-0461-28 3061 Fax: +39-0461-28-3066 http://www.cimec.unitn.it/ From nathanweisz at MAC.COM Tue Oct 12 17:08:11 2010 From: nathanweisz at MAC.COM (Nathan Weisz) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:08:11 +0200 Subject: plotting plv In-Reply-To: <5a40df8d99c3d.4cb20be4@mail.nyu.edu> Message-ID: hi akiko, just via coincidence i had the same issue today. after calculating ft_connectivityanalysis (i used 'coh' as method), the label field was missing. additionally i had to throw out the reference electrode. cohsniff.label=freqcsd.label; cohsniff.label(1)=[]; then plotting worked fine. good luck, nathan On 11.10.2010, at 00:54, Akiko Ikkai wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to plot plv between channel pairs that I get from ft_connectivityanalysis. > > when I run > cfg = []; > cfg.xparam = 'time'; > cfg.yparam = 'freq'; > cfg.zparam = 'cohsprctm'; % need to run stat.cohsprctm = stat.plvspctrm; > % fixed in the latest version? > cfg.cohrefchannel = '1'; > cfg.layout = 'ordered'; > cfg.showlabels = 'yes'; > cfg.colorbar = 'yes'; > figure; ft_multiplotTFR(cfg, stat) > > I get this error: > ft_multiplotTFR(cfg, stat) > ??? Index exceeds matrix dimensions. > > Error in ==> ft_multiplotTFR at 242 > datavector = data.(cfg.zparam)(seldat,yidc,xidc); > > > ... I'm guessing the error is something like wrong channel combination or refchannel selection, but not able to locate where the error is coming from (have tried different channel combination). stat.dimord is "chan_chan_freq_time", which might not be formatted appropriately for ft_multiplotTFR...? Below, I'm attaching the code used to get "stat" (plv). > > Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! Akiko > > > %%%%% code for connectivityanalysis %%%%%% > cfg = []; > cfg.output ='fourier'; % instead of 'powandcsd'... fixed in the latest version? > cfg.method = 'mtmconvol'; > cfg.channel = {'1', '7', '120'}; % contra & unrelated channels to test > cfg.channelcmb = {'1' '7'; '1' '120'; '7', '120'}; > cfg.keeptrials = 'yes'; > cfg.keeptapers = 'no'; > cfg.toi = [-.8:.1:2] > cfg.foi = [1:0.5:30]; > cfg.taper = 'hanning'; > cfg.t_ftimwin = zeros(1,length(cfg.foi)); > cfg.t_ftimwin(:) = 5./cfg.foi; > TFR = ft_freqanalysis(cfg, ft_data); > > cfg=[]; > cfg.method = 'plv'; > [stat] = ft_connectivityanalysis(cfg, TFR); > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. 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See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thomas.hartmann at UNI-KONSTANZ.DE Fri Oct 15 15:30:40 2010 From: thomas.hartmann at UNI-KONSTANZ.DE (Thomas Hartmann) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:30:40 +0200 Subject: specifying individual lateralization in sourcestatistic Message-ID: hi, i want to do a roi analysis on source data and average over the all the voxels. the problem is that i am dealing with a lateralized effect that i expect to show up either on the left or the right side of the same structure. this lateralization is individual for each subject and known a priori. is there any possibility to individually define, which side to take into account for the statistics? thanks in advance, thomas -- Dipl. Psych. Thomas Hartmann OBOB-Lab University of Konstanz Department of Psychology P.O. Box D25 78457 Konstanz Germany Tel.: +49 (0)7531 88 4612 Fax: +49 (0)7531-88 4601 Email: thomas.hartmann at uni-konstanz.de Homepage: http://www.uni-konstanz.de/obob "I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. " (Arthur Conan Doyle) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From michael.wibral at WEB.DE Fri Oct 15 16:08:09 2010 From: michael.wibral at WEB.DE (Michael Wibral) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:08:09 +0200 Subject: specifying individual lateralization in sourcestatistic In-Reply-To: <4CB85780.3000805@uni-konstanz.de> Message-ID: Hi Thomas, I suggest you simply extract the power values from the results of sourceanalysis (or t-values if you already did a fisrt level statistics) and average them by hand in MATLAB - as ROI is known for each subject this should be easy (you have to extract the values by the voxel indices contained in your ROI. These in turn you can find in interactive mode source plotting if everything else fails). This way you end up with a single value per subject and condition. Afterwards you do a simple permutation test by hand in MATLAB. ((The test for two conditions for example can be done this way: 1. concatenate all data in a vector D first data in one condition, then in the other) 2. compute your test metric between first and second half of D. 3. shuffle the entries of D: DS=D(randperm(length(D)); % creates a new D with shuffled entries by shuffling the indexes of the old one 4. compute your test metric for DS and remember it 5. Do 3+4 N times (e.g. >1901 times for accurate testing at alpha<0.05) 6. check where your original test metric obtained from D is in the distribution of the mtrices obtained from the DS.)) Hope this helps, Michael -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: "Thomas Hartmann" Gesendet: Oct 15, 2010 3:30:40 PM An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL Betreff: [FIELDTRIP] specifying individual lateralization in sourcestatistic > hi, >i want to do a roi analysis on source data and average over the all the >voxels. the problem is that i am dealing with a lateralized effect that >i expect to show up either on the left or the right side of the same >structure. this lateralization is individual for each subject and known >a priori. >is there any possibility to individually define, which side to take into >account for the statistics? > >thanks in advance, >thomas > >-- >Dipl. Psych. Thomas Hartmann > >OBOB-Lab >University of Konstanz >Department of Psychology >P.O. Box D25 >78457 Konstanz >Germany > >Tel.: +49 (0)7531 88 4612 >Fax: +49 (0)7531-88 4601 >Email: thomas.hartmann at uni-konstanz.de >Homepage: http://www.uni-konstanz.de/obob > >"I am a brain, Watson. 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See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From r.vandermeij at DONDERS.RU.NL Tue Oct 19 09:49:04 2010 From: r.vandermeij at DONDERS.RU.NL (Roemer van der Meij) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:49:04 +0200 Subject: plot rotated in 20101011 version In-Reply-To: <56f083dcec122.4cbc3d24@mail.nyu.edu> Message-ID: Hi Akiko, Is everything rotated, i.e. the interpolated data, the channels and the head shape/contours or only one of these? Best, Roemer Quoting Akiko Ikkai : > Hello, > > I downloaded 20101011 version, and found that ft_clusterplot, > ft_multiplotTFR plot images 90 degrees counter-clockwise (I only > tried these commands, but it's possible that other plot fxns do the > same). I ran the same codes with older versions and plots are fine. > Could someone let me know if versions later than 20101011 behave the > same (i.e. is this a new change that we should be aware of when > plotting, or a bug in this version)? > > Thanks in advance, Akiko > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Roemer van der Meij MSc PhD student Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Centre for Cognition P.O. 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I solved this issue by adding a rotate option in the cfg as following: cfg=[]; cfg.rotate=90; cfg.elec = mydata.elec; lay = ft_prepare_layout(cfg); Hope this helps, Rodolphe Nenert, Ph.D. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From akiko at NYU.EDU Wed Oct 20 01:55:08 2010 From: akiko at NYU.EDU (Akiko Ikkai) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:55:08 -0400 Subject: plot rotated in 20101011 version In-Reply-To: <20101019094904.t3oo09c2sk4kwwc0@www.socsci.ru.nl> Message-ID: Hi Roemer, It appears that interpolated data and contours in clusterplot/topoplot, and channel layout in multiplotTFR are rotated, but not the head outline. In my MEG data, data toward nose is displayed over the left ear on outline (90 degrees counter clockwise). If cfg.layout = 'ordered' is used, each channels are plotted accordingly, and within each channel, there is no rotation. singleplotTFR also plots normal. As Dr. Nenert suggested, I could correct for it with ft_prepare_layout, but it'd be nice to have this problem solved. Alternatively, I could download slightly older version of fieldtrip (assuming this rotation was introduced just recently), but I'd like to use the version that's spm8 compatible. Could you let me know how far back that would be (sometime in July 2010, I think)? Thank you for your time! Akiko ----- Original Message ----- From: Roemer van der Meij Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:49 am Subject: Re: [FIELDTRIP] plot rotated in 20101011 version To: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL > Hi Akiko, > > Is everything rotated, i.e. the interpolated data, the channels and > the head shape/contours or only one of these? > > Best, > Roemer > > > > Quoting Akiko Ikkai : > > > Hello, > > > > I downloaded 20101011 version, and found that ft_clusterplot, > > ft_multiplotTFR plot images 90 degrees counter-clockwise (I only > > tried these commands, but it's possible that other plot fxns do the > > > same). I ran the same codes with older versions and plots are fine. > > > Could someone let me know if versions later than 20101011 behave the > > > same (i.e. is this a new change that we should be aware of when > > plotting, or a bug in this version)? > > > > Thanks in advance, Akiko > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion > > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > -- > Roemer van der Meij MSc > PhD student > Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour > Centre for Cognition > P.O. 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So 'true' cluster membership of a certain electrode/timepoint/frequency is not statistically 'guaranteed'. Additional tests would be necessary. Then one thing that this argument does not account for is that 'accidentally neighbouring a cluster' is not so likely because of the smoothness of MEEG data - but I do not know at the moment how you could exploit this. This is well formulated. The null hypothesis that is tested by the cluster-based permutation tests involves that the spatiotemporal biological data in the experimental conditions that are being compared are drawn from the same probability distribution. They are NOT testing null hypotheses of the following type: there is no difference between the conditions at channel A and time point T whereas there may be differences at other (channel, time point) pairs. In fact, such null hypotheses do not make much sense when dealing with electrophysiological data because (a) because of volume conduction, spatially localized effects are not plausible, and (2) because neurophysiological processes are not instantaneous, highly temporally localized effect are not plausible either. Best, Eric Maris Michael _____ Von: Rodolphe Gesendet: Oct 20, 2010 12:49:06 AM An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL Betreff: [FIELDTRIP] Cluster change over time Dear Fieldtrip users, I used the Monte-Carlo method with cluster correction to compare two conditions within the same group of subjects. I didnt average over time, thus the clusterplot showed several topographic plot of the cluster that was found to be significant. I can see that this cluster evolves over time (number and place of significant electrodes highlighted). 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The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL Fri Oct 22 09:02:11 2010 From: jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL (jan-mathijs schoffelen) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:02:11 +0200 Subject: ft_channelrepair with neuromag data In-Reply-To: <4CC09941.1060006@mit.edu> Message-ID: Dear David, This is a good point. As far as I can see from the code, no distinction is made between gradiometers and magnetometers. Naively, I would propose the following: first indeed split the data into two subset: gradiometers only and magnetometers only, only then apply the channel reparation routine. Yet, for the gradiometer subset data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a bad channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead to averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal orientation. In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the noise (because the combination step results in taking an absolute value). Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which in principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would be to only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and you would want to interpolate the data back onto the original sensor-array. An example for interpolating between two types of CTF-systems is shown here http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag software allow for similar things? Best wishes, Jan-Mathijs On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: > Hi Fieldtrippers, > > I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some > missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just > wondering whether there are any potential problems with using the > nearest neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the > Neuromag system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). > > If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing bad/ > missing channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a subset > of the channels, say the gradiometers after I run ft_combineplanar)? > > Thanks! > David > > -- > David A. Ziegler > Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 > Cambridge, MA 02139 > Tel: 617-258-0765 > Fax: 617-253-1504 > daz at mit.edu > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You > are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the > discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. J.M. 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URL: From jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL Fri Oct 22 09:04:00 2010 From: jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL (jan-mathijs schoffelen) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:04:00 +0200 Subject: Coherence and dipole In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Rodolphe, I guess you are analyzing EEG data? What reference electrode(s) did you use? Best, JM On Oct 22, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Rodolphe wrote: > Dear Fieldtrip users, > > I recently run a coherence analysis on my data and i plotted a > beautiful Topographic plot showing a strong coherence between one > electrode in left parietal ( P5) and some right frontal electrodes. > The thing is, when i try with the right parietal equivalent ( P6 ) > then i find a coherence with left frontal. Ans so on with a couple > of other electrodes use as ref channels. > As this symmetry looks awkward to me, is any of you have an idea of > a posible artifact that can cause this, or a possible bias in the > analysis? ( I tripled checked my code) > > Best, > > Rodolphe N., Ph.D. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You > are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the > discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From maess at CBS.MPG.DE Fri Oct 22 09:25:01 2010 From: maess at CBS.MPG.DE (Burkhard Maess) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:25:01 +0200 Subject: ft_channelrepair with neuromag data In-Reply-To: <0A9DF0C3-4149-4874-9E27-C095CC0654AA@donders.ru.nl> Message-ID: Dear David, I agree with Jan-Mathijs. variant a: apply maxfilter - that will repair all broken channels. You also can manually define certain channels as broken. Maxfilter may also align data of different headpositions to a single position. variant b: use megrealign - it includes a minimum norm localization and from there MEG data is forward computed. In this way, you can repair channels, align different head positions to the same and even convert data between different systems. all the best, Burkhard jan-mathijs schoffelen wrote: > Dear David, > > This is a good point. As far as I can see from the code, no > distinction is made between gradiometers and magnetometers. > Naively, I would propose the following: first indeed split the data > into two subset: gradiometers only and magnetometers only, only then > apply the channel reparation routine. Yet, for the gradiometer subset > data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a bad > channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead to > averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal orientation. > > In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I > don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is > desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the noise > (because the combination step results in taking an absolute value). > Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which in > principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would be to > only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and you would > want to interpolate the data back onto the original sensor-array. An > example for interpolating between two types of CTF-systems is shown > here http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. > > Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag software > allow for similar things? > > Best wishes, > > Jan-Mathijs > > On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: > >> Hi Fieldtrippers, >> >> I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some >> missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just wondering >> whether there are any potential problems with using the nearest >> neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the Neuromag >> system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). >> >> If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing bad/missing >> channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a subset of the >> channels, say the gradiometers after I run ft_combineplanar)? >> >> Thanks! >> David >> >> -- >> David A. Ziegler >> Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences >> Massachusetts Institute of Technology >> 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 >> Cambridge, MA 02139 >> Tel: 617-258-0765 >> Fax: 617-253-1504 >> daz at mit.edu >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >> the FieldTrip list. 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The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From batrod at GMAIL.COM Sat Oct 23 00:12:31 2010 From: batrod at GMAIL.COM (Rodolphe Nenert) Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:12:31 +0200 Subject: Coherence and dipole Message-ID: Dear Jan, yes i do analyze EEG data. The data was recorded using vertex (CZ) as reference, but i modified to an average reference before doing any time-freq analysis. Rodolphe. On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:04:00 +0200, jan-mathijs schoffelen wrote: >Dear Rodolphe, > >I guess you are analyzing EEG data? What reference electrode(s) did >you use? > >Best, >JM > > > >On Oct 22, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Rodolphe wrote: > >> Dear Fieldtrip users, >> >> I recently run a coherence analysis on my data and i plotted a >> beautiful Topographic plot showing a strong coherence between one >> electrode in left parietal ( P5) and some right frontal electrodes. >> The thing is, when i try with the right parietal equivalent ( P6 ) >> then i find a coherence with left frontal. Ans so on with a couple >> of other electrodes use as ref channels. >> As this symmetry looks awkward to me, is any of you have an idea of >> a posible artifact that can cause this, or a possible bias in the >> analysis? ( I tripled checked my code) >> >> Best, >> >> Rodolphe N., Ph.D. >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You >> are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >> the FieldTrip list. 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See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL Mon Oct 25 12:25:32 2010 From: jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL (jan-mathijs schoffelen) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:25:32 +0200 Subject: Coherence and dipole In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Rodolphe, The problem with coherence analysis on channel level (EEG) data that widely separated electrodes can 'see' the same neuronal sources. Also, they see the same noise (as 'injected' by the choice of reference electrode, which can be a single channel, or the average across all channels). So, every channel contains an unknown mix of interesting brain signal, uninteresting brain signal, and uninteresting noise. Depending on the spatial structure of these 3 components and the way they are mixed per channel determines the observations. Troublesome sources which may cause the effect you are observing, may be quite distant 'dipoles' accounting for the cardiac activity picked up by the EEG electrode array. Although in general I believe that EEG- channel-level coherence analysis is very problematic due to interpretational difficulties, you could see whether your reported spatial patterns change when constructing a Laplacian derivation for each of your electrodes (if the number of electrodes allows for this). Good luck, Jan-Mathijs On Oct 23, 2010, at 12:12 AM, Rodolphe Nenert wrote: > Dear Jan, > > yes i do analyze EEG data. The data was recorded using vertex (CZ) as > reference, but i modified to an average reference before doing any > time-freq > analysis. > > Rodolphe. > > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:04:00 +0200, jan-mathijs schoffelen > wrote: > >> Dear Rodolphe, >> >> I guess you are analyzing EEG data? What reference electrode(s) did >> you use? >> >> Best, >> JM >> >> >> >> On Oct 22, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Rodolphe wrote: >> >>> Dear Fieldtrip users, >>> >>> I recently run a coherence analysis on my data and i plotted a >>> beautiful Topographic plot showing a strong coherence between one >>> electrode in left parietal ( P5) and some right frontal electrodes. >>> The thing is, when i try with the right parietal equivalent ( P6 ) >>> then i find a coherence with left frontal. Ans so on with a couple >>> of other electrodes use as ref channels. >>> As this symmetry looks awkward to me, is any of you have an idea of >>> a posible artifact that can cause this, or a possible bias in the >>> analysis? ( I tripled checked my code) >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Rodolphe N., Ph.D. >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You >>> are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >>> the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the >>> discussion >>> between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences >>> and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. >>> See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html >>> and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >> >> Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen >> Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, >> Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, >> Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands >> J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl >> Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >> the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the >> discussion >> between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences >> and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. >> See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html >> and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the > discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From paul_c at GMX.DE Mon Oct 25 13:40:48 2010 From: paul_c at GMX.DE (Paul Czienskowski) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:40:48 +0200 Subject: Forward model conductivities Message-ID: Dear all, Alexandre Gramford pointed out to me that there was some discussion ongoing on which conductivities to use for EEG-Forward-Modeling and I'd like to move this discussion more to public for it could be interesting for many of us. I was recently overflying some papers concerned with that very issues and I made some interesting and discoveries, especially in Conductivity of living intracranial tissues. by Latikka J, Kuurne T, Eskola H. The electrical conductivity of human cerebrospinal fluid at body temperature by Baumann et al. The first one measured the conductivities (or resistivities) of living brain tissue and came to values of 3.51 Ohms*m and 3.91 Ohms*m for grey respectively white matter and 0.80 Ohms*m for the CSF (which are about 0.28, 0.256 and 1.25 S/m). In contrary the second one found a value for 1.79 S/m for CSF at body temperature where it was about 1.4 S/m at room temperature. The Skull-To-Brain conductivity ratio was measured for example in Estimation of /in vivo/ brain-to-skull conductivity ratio in humans by Yingchun Zhang, Wim van Drongelen, and Bin He where they found a ratio of about 1/18.7 which is way larger than the commonly assumed value. I would appreciate very much if many of you could contribute to this discussion by telling us which values you use for the conductivities and on which publications the are based. 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URL: From carsten.wolters at UNI-MUENSTER.DE Mon Oct 25 15:41:24 2010 From: carsten.wolters at UNI-MUENSTER.DE (Dr. Carsten Wolters) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:41:24 +0200 Subject: Forward model conductivities In-Reply-To: <4CC56CC0.5070307@gmx.de> Message-ID: Dear Paul, head tissue conductivities seem to have a larger inter- and intra-subject variability. I attachted a 4-page-proceedings paper with regard to those issues that we recently presented : @InProceedings{CHW:Wol2010, author = "C. H. Wolters and S.Lew and R. S. MacLeod and M. S. H{\"a}m{\"a}l{\"a}inen", title = "Combined {EEG/MEG} source analysis using calibrated finite element head models", booktitle = "Proc. of the 44th Annual Meeting, DGBMT", address = "Rostock-Warnem{\"u}nde, Germany, Oct.5-8, 2010", year = "2010", note = "http://conference.vde.com/bmt-2010", } Best regards Carsten Paul Czienskowski wrote: > Dear all, > > Alexandre Gramford pointed out to me that there was some discussion > ongoing on which conductivities to use for EEG-Forward-Modeling and > I'd like to move this discussion more to public for it could be > interesting for many of us. > I was recently overflying some papers concerned with that very issues > and I made some interesting and discoveries, especially in > > Conductivity of living intracranial tissues. by Latikka J, Kuurne > T, Eskola H. > The electrical conductivity of human cerebrospinal fluid at body > temperature by Baumann et al. > > The first one measured the conductivities (or resistivities) of living > brain tissue and came to values of 3.51 Ohms*m and 3.91 Ohms*m for > grey respectively white matter and 0.80 Ohms*m for the CSF (which are > about 0.28, 0.256 and 1.25 S/m). In contrary the second one found a > value for 1.79 S/m for CSF at body temperature where it was about 1.4 > S/m at room temperature. The Skull-To-Brain conductivity ratio was > measured for example in > > Estimation of /in vivo/ brain-to-skull conductivity ratio in > humans by Yingchun Zhang, Wim van Drongelen, and Bin He > > where they found a ratio of about 1/18.7 which is way larger than the > commonly assumed value. > > I would appreciate very much if many of you could contribute to this > discussion by telling us which values you use for the conductivities > and on which publications the are based. > > Best, > Paul > -- > Paul Czienskowski > Max Planck institute for human development > Lentzeallee 94 > 14195 Berlin > > Björnsonstr. 25 > 12163 Berlin > > Tel.: (+49)(0)30/221609359 > Handy: (+49)(0)1788378772 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- PD.Dr.rer.nat. Carsten Wolters Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis University of Muenster, 48149 Muenster, Germany Tel.: +49/(0)251-83-56904 Fax: +49/(0)251-83-56874 http://biomag.uni-muenster.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. 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My big worry however is not simply to find the ratio (taking individual differences into account). but also to get estimates of the differences in conductivity across the skull. I'm pretty confident that such inhomogeneities are present and that they will have significant effects on the BEM forward models. The inhomogeneities will not only affect the effective depth of sources but also can laterally shift their locations to places on cortex with very different surface normals. An important aspect of our EEG/MEG source localization work is to learn how to calibrate each individual's conductivity partly based on differences in EEG vs MEG localizations. best, Stan On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Paul Czienskowski wrote: > Dear all, > > Alexandre Gramford pointed out to me that there was some discussion ongoing > on which conductivities to use for EEG-Forward-Modeling and I'd like to move > this discussion more to public for it could be interesting for many of us. > I was recently overflying some papers concerned with that very issues and I > made some interesting and discoveries, especially in > > Conductivity of living intracranial tissues. by Latikka J, Kuurne T, Eskola > H. > The electrical conductivity of human cerebrospinal fluid at body > temperature by Baumann et al. > > The first one measured the conductivities (or resistivities) of living > brain tissue and came to values of 3.51 Ohms*m and 3.91 Ohms*m for grey > respectively white matter and 0.80 Ohms*m for the CSF (which are about 0.28, > 0.256 and 1.25 S/m). In contrary the second one found a value for 1.79 S/m > for CSF at body temperature where it was about 1.4 S/m at room temperature. > The Skull-To-Brain conductivity ratio was measured for example in > > Estimation of *in vivo* brain-to-skull conductivity ratio in humans by > Yingchun Zhang, Wim van Drongelen, and Bin He > > where they found a ratio of about 1/18.7 which is way larger than the > commonly assumed value. > > I would appreciate very much if many of you could contribute to this > discussion by telling us which values you use for the conductivities and on > which publications the are based. > > Best, > Paul > > > -- > Paul Czienskowski > Max Planck institute for human development > Lentzeallee 94 > 14195 Berlin > > Björnsonstr. 25 > 12163 Berlin > > Tel.: (+49)(0)30/221609359 > Handy: (+49)(0)1788378772 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. 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URL: From carsten.wolters at UNI-MUENSTER.DE Tue Oct 26 09:11:47 2010 From: carsten.wolters at UNI-MUENSTER.DE (Dr. Carsten Wolters) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:11:47 +0200 Subject: Forward model conductivities In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Stanley and Paul, I agree to what Stanley wrote about the skull inhomogeneities, it fits perfectly to what we described in a recent publication: @Article{CHW:Dan2010, author = {Dannhauer, M. and Lanfer, B. and Wolters, C.H. and Kn{\"o}sche, T.}, title = {Modeling of the Human Skull in {EEG} Source Analysis}, journal = "Human Brain Mapping", note = "DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21114, PMID: 20690140", year = "2010", } Best regards Carsten Stanley Klein wrote: > Dear Paul and Carsten, > The conductivity ratio of 1/20 that you mention is indeed on the low > side of > many present estimates. It is way lower than the Rush & Driscoll 1/80 > ratio that we used in our 30 year old "Ary Correction" paper that > examined > the effect of skull and scalp thickness. My big worry however is > not simply to find the ratio (taking individual differences into > account). but > also to get estimates of the differences in conductivity across the skull. > I'm pretty confident that such inhomogeneities are present and that > they will > have significant effects on the BEM forward models. The inhomogeneities > will not only affect the effective depth of sources but also can > laterally shift > their locations to places on cortex with very different surface normals. > > An important aspect of our EEG/MEG source localization work is to learn > how to calibrate each individual's conductivity partly based on > differences > in EEG vs MEG localizations. > > best, > Stan > > > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Paul Czienskowski > wrote: > > Dear all, > > Alexandre Gramford pointed out to me that there was some > discussion ongoing on which conductivities to use for > EEG-Forward-Modeling and I'd like to move this discussion more to > public for it could be interesting for many of us. > I was recently overflying some papers concerned with that very > issues and I made some interesting and discoveries, especially in > > Conductivity of living intracranial tissues. by Latikka J, > Kuurne T, Eskola H. > The electrical conductivity of human cerebrospinal fluid at > body temperature by Baumann et al. > > The first one measured the conductivities (or resistivities) of > living brain tissue and came to values of 3.51 Ohms*m and 3.91 > Ohms*m for grey respectively white matter and 0.80 Ohms*m for the > CSF (which are about 0.28, 0.256 and 1.25 S/m). In contrary the > second one found a value for 1.79 S/m for CSF at body temperature > where it was about 1.4 S/m at room temperature. The Skull-To-Brain > conductivity ratio was measured for example in > > Estimation of /in vivo/ brain-to-skull conductivity ratio in > humans by Yingchun Zhang, Wim van Drongelen, and Bin He > > where they found a ratio of about 1/18.7 which is way larger than > the commonly assumed value. > > I would appreciate very much if many of you could contribute to > this discussion by telling us which values you use for the > conductivities and on which publications the are based. > > Best, > Paul > > -- > Paul Czienskowski > Max Planck institute for human development > Lentzeallee 94 > 14195 Berlin > > Björnsonstr. 25 > 12163 Berlin > > Tel.: (+49)(0)30/221609359 > Handy: (+49)(0)1788378772 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- PD.Dr.rer.nat. Carsten Wolters Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis University of Muenster, 48149 Muenster, Germany Tel.: +49/(0)251-83-56904 Fax: +49/(0)251-83-56874 http://biomag.uni-muenster.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Nina.Kahlbrock at UNI-DUESSELDORF.DE Tue Oct 26 10:07:33 2010 From: Nina.Kahlbrock at UNI-DUESSELDORF.DE (Nina Kahlbrock) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:07:33 +0200 Subject: AW: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data In-Reply-To: <4CC13C4D.3000603@cbs.mpg.de> Message-ID: Dear Burkhard, I am also working on NM306 data and I have a specific problem repairing broken channels using maxfilter. This email might thus be more suited for the neuromeg discussion list. However, I thought it might be of interest to other NM users as well... What I would like to do is pretty much the same as described in the previous mails: interpolate broken channels and use a standard head position for multiple recordings in one subject. I used fieldtrip's automatic and semi-automatic artifact rejection routines to identify channels that are flat, show jumps and are noisy. I defined these as bad in maxfilter. Then I used sss/tsss to achieve the desired steps. It seemed very straight forward. However, when looking at the results, the signal seems to be increased (and more noisy and jumpy) in certain channels (see attached pdfs of bad and non-bad channel (1st page: raw data, 2nd page: sss data, 3rd page: tsss data). Have you ever experienced anything like this? The only reason I can come up with is that in maxfilter I used the continuous raw data file and not as in fieldtrip, only trials. Between trials there are pauses, where the channels could have been affected by a few movements. Could this explain my difficulties? Is there a way to 'only' interpolate channels and realign the head, without impacting other non-broken channels? Thank you very much for your answer! Nina -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] Im Auftrag von Burkhard Maess Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Oktober 2010 09:25 An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL Betreff: Re: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data Dear David, I agree with Jan-Mathijs. variant a: apply maxfilter - that will repair all broken channels. You also can manually define certain channels as broken. Maxfilter may also align data of different headpositions to a single position. variant b: use megrealign - it includes a minimum norm localization and from there MEG data is forward computed. In this way, you can repair channels, align different head positions to the same and even convert data between different systems. all the best, Burkhard jan-mathijs schoffelen wrote: > Dear David, > > This is a good point. As far as I can see from the code, no > distinction is made between gradiometers and magnetometers. > Naively, I would propose the following: first indeed split the data > into two subset: gradiometers only and magnetometers only, only then > apply the channel reparation routine. Yet, for the gradiometer subset > data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a bad > channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead to > averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal orientation. > > In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I > don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is > desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the noise > (because the combination step results in taking an absolute value). > Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which in > principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would be to > only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and you would > want to interpolate the data back onto the original sensor-array. An > example for interpolating between two types of CTF-systems is shown > here http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. > > Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag software > allow for similar things? > > Best wishes, > > Jan-Mathijs > > On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: > >> Hi Fieldtrippers, >> >> I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some >> missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just wondering >> whether there are any potential problems with using the nearest >> neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the Neuromag >> system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). >> >> If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing bad/missing >> channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a subset of the >> channels, say the gradiometers after I run ft_combineplanar)? >> >> Thanks! >> David >> >> -- >> David A. Ziegler >> Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences >> Massachusetts Institute of Technology >> 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 >> Cambridge, MA 02139 >> Tel: 617-258-0765 >> Fax: 617-253-1504 >> daz at mit.edu >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >> the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion >> between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences >> and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. >> See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html >> and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen > Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, > Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, > Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands > J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl > Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. 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We shall continue the discussion here when we know the reason for this strange behavior. best wishes, Burkhard Nina Kahlbrock wrote: > Dear Burkhard, > I am also working on NM306 data and I have a specific problem repairing > broken channels using maxfilter. This email might thus be more suited for > the neuromeg discussion list. However, I thought it might be of interest to > other NM users as well... > What I would like to do is pretty much the same as described in the previous > mails: interpolate broken channels and use a standard head position for > multiple recordings in one subject. > I used fieldtrip's automatic and semi-automatic artifact rejection routines > to identify channels that are flat, show jumps and are noisy. I defined > these as bad in maxfilter. Then I used sss/tsss to achieve the desired > steps. It seemed very straight forward. > However, when looking at the results, the signal seems to be increased (and > more noisy and jumpy) in certain channels (see attached pdfs of bad and > non-bad channel (1st page: raw data, 2nd page: sss data, 3rd page: tsss > data). Have you ever experienced anything like this? The only reason I can > come up with is that in maxfilter I used the continuous raw data file and > not as in fieldtrip, only trials. Between trials there are pauses, where the > channels could have been affected by a few movements. Could this explain my > difficulties? > Is there a way to 'only' interpolate channels and realign the head, without > impacting other non-broken channels? > Thank you very much for your answer! > Nina > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] Im Auftrag > von Burkhard Maess > Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Oktober 2010 09:25 > An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL > Betreff: Re: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data > > Dear David, > > I agree with Jan-Mathijs. > > variant a: apply maxfilter - that will repair all broken channels. You > also can manually define certain channels as broken. Maxfilter may also > align data of different headpositions to a single position. > > variant b: use megrealign - it includes a minimum norm localization and > from there MEG data is forward computed. In this way, you can repair > channels, align different head positions to the same and even convert > data between different systems. > > all the best, > Burkhard > > > jan-mathijs schoffelen wrote: > >> Dear David, >> >> This is a good point. As far as I can see from the code, no >> distinction is made between gradiometers and magnetometers. >> Naively, I would propose the following: first indeed split the data >> into two subset: gradiometers only and magnetometers only, only then >> apply the channel reparation routine. Yet, for the gradiometer subset >> data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a bad >> channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead to >> averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal orientation. >> >> In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I >> don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is >> desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the noise >> (because the combination step results in taking an absolute value). >> Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which in >> principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would be to >> only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and you would >> want to interpolate the data back onto the original sensor-array. An >> example for interpolating between two types of CTF-systems is shown >> here http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. >> >> Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag software >> allow for similar things? >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Jan-Mathijs >> >> On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: >> >> >>> Hi Fieldtrippers, >>> >>> I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some >>> missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just wondering >>> whether there are any potential problems with using the nearest >>> neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the Neuromag >>> system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). >>> >>> If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing bad/missing >>> channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a subset of the >>> channels, say the gradiometers after I run ft_combineplanar)? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> David >>> >>> -- >>> David A. Ziegler >>> Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences >>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology >>> 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 >>> Cambridge, MA 02139 >>> Tel: 617-258-0765 >>> Fax: 617-253-1504 >>> daz at mit.edu >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >>> the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion >>> between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences >>> and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. >>> See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html >>> and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. >>> >>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen >> Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, >> Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, >> Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands >> J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl >> Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 >> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >> the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion >> between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences >> and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. >> See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html >> and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Burkhard Maess Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Stephanstr. 1a, P.O. Box 500355, D-04303 Leipzig Aussenstelle Bennewitz, phone/fax: +49(3425)887525-26/-11 mail: maess 'at' cbs.mpg.de, http://www.cbs.mpg.de ------------------------------------------------------------ Please do not attach files which may contain executable code, e.g. .rtf is preferred over .doc(x) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From e.vandenbroeke at ANES.UMCN.NL Tue Oct 26 16:25:24 2010 From: e.vandenbroeke at ANES.UMCN.NL (Emanuel van den Broeke) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:25:24 +0200 Subject: non-parametric cluster-based analysis Message-ID: Dear fieldtrip users, I would like to know if I it is allowed to do three single non-parametric cluster based analyses and use IndepT-statistics, if I will test three groups (group A vs B, B vs C and A vs C) by . And is it then nescessarily to adjust post-hoc the p-value of all three comparisons because of multiple comparisons? Thanx! Emanuel --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From batrod at GMAIL.COM Wed Oct 27 01:08:23 2010 From: batrod at GMAIL.COM (Rodolphe Nenert) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:08:23 +0200 Subject: non-parametric cluster-based analysis Message-ID: Dear Emmanuel, If i understand correctly you want to rank your 3 groups on a particular condition using the cluster correction. On normal data you would face the multiple comparison problem and would need to correct. Here, this need to be confirmed, the problem is you're doing cluster correction. Therefore, the significant cluster you may find between your groups may vary in "shape". Ranking is thus probably nonsense. Still, this analysis will tell you what is significantly different between two groups. If you want to rank your 3 groups you can choose relevant electrodes and make an ANOVA, or if you want to stay with non-parametric, a Kruskal- Wallis. Hope this helps, maybe someone else will have a better answer to your problem, Rodolphe. On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:25:24 +0200, wrote: >Dear fieldtrip users, > >I would like to know if I it is allowed to do three single non-parametric cluster >based analyses and use IndepT-statistics, if I will test three groups (group A >vs B, B vs C and A vs C) by . And is it then nescessarily to adjust post-hoc >the p-value of all three comparisons because of multiple comparisons? > >Thanx! >Emanuel > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion >between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences >and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. >See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html >and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From e.maris at DONDERS.RU.NL Wed Oct 27 07:33:36 2010 From: e.maris at DONDERS.RU.NL (Eric Maris) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:33:36 +0200 Subject: non-parametric cluster-based analysis In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi Emanuel, > I would like to know if I it is allowed to do three single non- > parametric cluster > based analyses and use IndepT-statistics, if I will test three groups > (group A > vs B, B vs C and A vs C) by . And is it then nescessarily to adjust > post-hoc > the p-value of all three comparisons because of multiple comparisons? Yes, this is required. Alternatively, you may run a single three-group analysis using the indepsamplesF statistic. Here, you test the null hypothesis that the observations in the three groups are all drawn from the same probability distribution. Best, Eric > > Thanx! > Emanuel > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the > discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From daz at MIT.EDU Wed Oct 27 17:01:46 2010 From: daz at MIT.EDU (David Ziegler) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:01:46 -0400 Subject: AW: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data In-Reply-To: <4CC69576.5090501@cbs.mpg.de> Message-ID: Hi Burkdard and Nina, First off, thanks for the great advice Burkhard (and Jan-Mathijs). Following your advice, I processed my raw neuromag data with maxfilter, and I ended up with some results that are quite similar to what Nina is seeing. This doesn't happen for all of my subjects, but for about half of them, I get increased noise in select channels following maxfilter. I believe I used maxfilter v2.0 and my command line was: maxfilter -f $f_i{each subject's fif file} -origin 0 0 40 -frame head -autobad 30 -badlimit 7 -in 8 -out 3 -trans default You mentioned that this should probably be posted to the neuromag list, but I am not currently on that list and wasn't able to find it with a quick search. I'd be happy to repost there if you point me to the sign-up page. Thanks! David On 10/26/2010 4:46 AM, Burkhard Maess wrote: > Dear Nina, > > indeed this looks funny. I have seen that maxfilter sometimes has > produced unexpected results, but usually the channels have less noise > after transformation. Your displays demonstrate the problem, but > provide insufficient information to search for origin of it. I think, > it is necessary to place one of these files to an ftp-server together > with the list of bad channels you have used and the version of > maxfilter. I would recommend to ask Jukka Nennonen for help because he > is the maxfilter-pro and the displayed result should not show up. We > shall continue the discussion here when we know the reason for this > strange behavior. > > best wishes, > Burkhard > > > > Nina Kahlbrock wrote: >> Dear Burkhard, >> I am also working on NM306 data and I have a specific problem repairing >> broken channels using maxfilter. This email might thus be more suited >> for >> the neuromeg discussion list. However, I thought it might be of >> interest to >> other NM users as well... >> What I would like to do is pretty much the same as described in the >> previous >> mails: interpolate broken channels and use a standard head position for >> multiple recordings in one subject. >> I used fieldtrip's automatic and semi-automatic artifact rejection >> routines >> to identify channels that are flat, show jumps and are noisy. I defined >> these as bad in maxfilter. Then I used sss/tsss to achieve the desired >> steps. It seemed very straight forward. However, when looking at the >> results, the signal seems to be increased (and >> more noisy and jumpy) in certain channels (see attached pdfs of bad and >> non-bad channel (1st page: raw data, 2nd page: sss data, 3rd page: tsss >> data). Have you ever experienced anything like this? The only reason >> I can >> come up with is that in maxfilter I used the continuous raw data file >> and >> not as in fieldtrip, only trials. Between trials there are pauses, >> where the >> channels could have been affected by a few movements. Could this >> explain my >> difficulties? >> Is there a way to 'only' interpolate channels and realign the head, >> without >> impacting other non-broken channels? >> Thank you very much for your answer! >> Nina >> >> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] Im >> Auftrag >> von Burkhard Maess >> Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Oktober 2010 09:25 >> An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL >> Betreff: Re: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data >> >> Dear David, >> >> I agree with Jan-Mathijs. >> >> variant a: apply maxfilter - that will repair all broken channels. >> You also can manually define certain channels as broken. Maxfilter >> may also align data of different headpositions to a single position. >> >> variant b: use megrealign - it includes a minimum norm localization >> and from there MEG data is forward computed. In this way, you can >> repair channels, align different head positions to the same and even >> convert data between different systems. >> >> all the best, >> Burkhard >> >> >> jan-mathijs schoffelen wrote: >>> Dear David, >>> >>> This is a good point. As far as I can see from the code, no >>> distinction is made between gradiometers and magnetometers. >>> Naively, I would propose the following: first indeed split the data >>> into two subset: gradiometers only and magnetometers only, only then >>> apply the channel reparation routine. Yet, for the gradiometer >>> subset data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a >>> bad channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead >>> to averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal >>> orientation. >>> >>> In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I >>> don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is >>> desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the >>> noise (because the combination step results in taking an absolute >>> value). Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which >>> in principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would >>> be to only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and >>> you would want to interpolate the data back onto the original >>> sensor-array. An example for interpolating between two types of >>> CTF-systems is shown here >>> http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. >>> >>> Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag >>> software allow for similar things? >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> >>> Jan-Mathijs >>> On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Fieldtrippers, >>>> >>>> I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some >>>> missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just >>>> wondering whether there are any potential problems with using the >>>> nearest neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the >>>> Neuromag system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). >>>> If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing >>>> bad/missing channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a >>>> subset of the channels, say the gradiometers after I run >>>> ft_combineplanar)? >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> David >>>> >>>> -- >>>> David A. Ziegler >>>> Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute >>>> of Technology 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 Cambridge, MA 02139 >>>> Tel: 617-258-0765 >>>> Fax: 617-253-1504 >>>> daz at mit.edu >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>>> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the >>>> FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the >>>> discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share >>>> experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See >>>> also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and >>>> http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. >>>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>> Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen Donders Institute for Brain, >>> Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, >>> Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands >>> J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl >>> Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 >>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >>> the FieldTrip list. 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Following your advice, I processed my raw neuromag data with maxfilter, and I ended up with some results that are quite similar to what Nina is seeing. This doesn't happen for all of my subjects, but for about half of them, I get increased noise in select channels following maxfilter. I believe I used maxfilter v2.0 and my command line was: maxfilter -f $f_i{each subject's fif file} -origin 0 0 40 -frame head -autobad 30 -badlimit 7 -in 8 -out 3 -trans default You mentioned that this should probably be posted to the neuromag list, but I am not currently on that list and wasn't able to find it with a quick search. I'd be happy to repost there if you point me to the sign-up page. Thanks! David On 10/26/2010 4:46 AM, Burkhard Maess wrote: Dear Nina, indeed this looks funny. I have seen that maxfilter sometimes has produced unexpected results, but usually the channels have less noise after transformation. Your displays demonstrate the problem, but provide insufficient information to search for origin of it. I think, it is necessary to place one of these files to an ftp-server together with the list of bad channels you have used and the version of maxfilter. I would recommend to ask Jukka Nennonen for help because he is the maxfilter-pro and the displayed result should not show up. We shall continue the discussion here when we know the reason for this strange behavior. best wishes, Burkhard Nina Kahlbrock wrote: Dear Burkhard, I am also working on NM306 data and I have a specific problem repairing broken channels using maxfilter. This email might thus be more suited for the neuromeg discussion list. However, I thought it might be of interest to other NM users as well... What I would like to do is pretty much the same as described in the previous mails: interpolate broken channels and use a standard head position for multiple recordings in one subject. I used fieldtrip's automatic and semi-automatic artifact rejection routines to identify channels that are flat, show jumps and are noisy. I defined these as bad in maxfilter. Then I used sss/tsss to achieve the desired steps. It seemed very straight forward. However, when looking at the results, the signal seems to be increased (and more noisy and jumpy) in certain channels (see attached pdfs of bad and non-bad channel (1st page: raw data, 2nd page: sss data, 3rd page: tsss data). Have you ever experienced anything like this? The only reason I can come up with is that in maxfilter I used the continuous raw data file and not as in fieldtrip, only trials. Between trials there are pauses, where the channels could have been affected by a few movements. Could this explain my difficulties? Is there a way to 'only' interpolate channels and realign the head, without impacting other non-broken channels? Thank you very much for your answer! Nina -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] Im Auftrag von Burkhard Maess Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Oktober 2010 09:25 An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL Betreff: Re: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data Dear David, I agree with Jan-Mathijs. variant a: apply maxfilter - that will repair all broken channels. You also can manually define certain channels as broken. Maxfilter may also align data of different headpositions to a single position. variant b: use megrealign - it includes a minimum norm localization and from there MEG data is forward computed. In this way, you can repair channels, align different head positions to the same and even convert data between different systems. all the best, Burkhard jan-mathijs schoffelen wrote: Dear David, This is a good point. As far as I can see from the code, no distinction is made between gradiometers and magnetometers. Naively, I would propose the following: first indeed split the data into two subset: gradiometers only and magnetometers only, only then apply the channel reparation routine. Yet, for the gradiometer subset data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a bad channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead to averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal orientation. In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the noise (because the combination step results in taking an absolute value). Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which in principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would be to only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and you would want to interpolate the data back onto the original sensor-array. An example for interpolating between two types of CTF-systems is shown here http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag software allow for similar things? Best wishes, Jan-Mathijs On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: Hi Fieldtrippers, I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just wondering whether there are any potential problems with using the nearest neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the Neuromag system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing bad/missing channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a subset of the channels, say the gradiometers after I run ft_combineplanar)? Thanks! David -- David A. Ziegler Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 Cambridge, MA 02139 Tel: 617-258-0765 Fax: 617-253-1504 daz at mit.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. J.M. 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David On 10/27/2010 11:26 AM, Nina Kahlbrock wrote: > > Hi David, > > the link for the neuromeg discussion list is: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=NEUROMEG > > I am currently discussing those problems with the Elekta Neuromag > support. I will let you know as soon as this has come to a conclusion. > > Cheers, > > Nina > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *Von:*FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] *Im > Auftrag von *David Ziegler > *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 27. Oktober 2010 17:02 > *An:* FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL > *Betreff:* Re: [FIELDTRIP] AW: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with > neuromag data > > Hi Burkdard and Nina, > > First off, thanks for the great advice Burkhard (and Jan-Mathijs). > Following your advice, I processed my raw neuromag data with > maxfilter, and I ended up with some results that are quite similar to > what Nina is seeing. This doesn't happen for all of my subjects, but > for about half of them, I get increased noise in select channels > following maxfilter. I believe I used maxfilter v2.0 and my command > line was: > > maxfilter -f $f_i{each subject's fif file} -origin 0 0 40 -frame head > -autobad 30 -badlimit 7 -in 8 -out 3 -trans default > > You mentioned that this should probably be posted to the neuromag > list, but I am not currently on that list and wasn't able to find it > with a quick search. I'd be happy to repost there if you point me to > the sign-up page. > > Thanks! > David > > > On 10/26/2010 4:46 AM, Burkhard Maess wrote: > > Dear Nina, > > indeed this looks funny. I have seen that maxfilter sometimes has > produced unexpected results, but usually the channels have less noise > after transformation. Your displays demonstrate the problem, but > provide insufficient information to search for origin of it. I think, > it is necessary to place one of these files to an ftp-server together > with the list of bad channels you have used and the version of > maxfilter. I would recommend to ask Jukka Nennonen for help because he > is the maxfilter-pro and the displayed result should not show up. We > shall continue the discussion here when we know the reason for this > strange behavior. > > best wishes, > Burkhard > > > > Nina Kahlbrock wrote: > > Dear Burkhard, > I am also working on NM306 data and I have a specific problem repairing > broken channels using maxfilter. This email might thus be more suited for > the neuromeg discussion list. However, I thought it might be of > interest to > other NM users as well... > What I would like to do is pretty much the same as described in the > previous > mails: interpolate broken channels and use a standard head position for > multiple recordings in one subject. > I used fieldtrip's automatic and semi-automatic artifact rejection > routines > to identify channels that are flat, show jumps and are noisy. I defined > these as bad in maxfilter. Then I used sss/tsss to achieve the desired > steps. It seemed very straight forward. However, when looking at the > results, the signal seems to be increased (and > more noisy and jumpy) in certain channels (see attached pdfs of bad and > non-bad channel (1st page: raw data, 2nd page: sss data, 3rd page: tsss > data). Have you ever experienced anything like this? The only reason I > can > come up with is that in maxfilter I used the continuous raw data file and > not as in fieldtrip, only trials. Between trials there are pauses, > where the > channels could have been affected by a few movements. Could this > explain my > difficulties? > Is there a way to 'only' interpolate channels and realign the head, > without > impacting other non-broken channels? > Thank you very much for your answer! > Nina > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: FieldTrip discussion list [mailto:FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL] Im > Auftrag > von Burkhard Maess > Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Oktober 2010 09:25 > An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL > Betreff: Re: [FIELDTRIP] ft_channelrepair with neuromag data > > Dear David, > > I agree with Jan-Mathijs. > > variant a: apply maxfilter - that will repair all broken channels. You > also can manually define certain channels as broken. Maxfilter may > also align data of different headpositions to a single position. > > variant b: use megrealign - it includes a minimum norm localization > and from there MEG data is forward computed. In this way, you can > repair channels, align different head positions to the same and even > convert data between different systems. > > all the best, > Burkhard > > > jan-mathijs schoffelen wrote: > > Dear David, > > This is a good point. As far as I can see from the code, no > distinction is made between gradiometers and magnetometers. > Naively, I would propose the following: first indeed split the data > into two subset: gradiometers only and magnetometers only, only then > apply the channel reparation routine. Yet, for the gradiometer subset > data, it is questionable whether as such the replacement of a bad > channel with its neighbours makes sense, because this would lead to > averaging gradients of the magnetic field with an orthogonal orientation. > > In other words, this is probably not the most sensible approach. I > don't think repairing after combining the planar gradients is > desired, because this leads to an unwanted amplification of the noise > (because the combination step results in taking an absolute value). > Alternatively, you could consider using ft_megrealign, which in > principle could be used to repair bad channels. The recipe would be to > only use the data with the clean channels in the input, and you would > want to interpolate the data back onto the original sensor-array. An > example for interpolating between two types of CTF-systems is shown > here http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/example/megrealign. > > Just out of curiosity: doesn't the maxfilter in the Neuromag software > allow for similar things? > > Best wishes, > > Jan-Mathijs > On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:49 PM, David Ziegler wrote: > > Hi Fieldtrippers, > > I would like to use ft_channelrepair to interpolate data for some > missing/deleted channels with Neuromag 306 data. I am just wondering > whether there are any potential problems with using the nearest > neighbor interpolation, given the triplet format of the Neuromag > system (two planar gradiometers and one magnetometer). > If this is problematic, are there other options to fixing bad/missing > channels (e.g., can ft_channelrepair be run on just a subset of the > channels, say the gradiometers after I run ft_combineplanar)? > > Thanks! > David > > -- > David A. Ziegler > Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of > Technology 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 Cambridge, MA 02139 > Tel: 617-258-0765 > Fax: 617-253-1504 > daz at mit.edu > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the >> FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion >> between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to >> discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also >> http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and >> http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Dr. J.M. (Jan-Mathijs) Schoffelen Donders Institute for Brain, > Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, > Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands > J.Schoffelen at donders.ru.nl > > Telephone: 0031-24-3614793 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > > David A. Ziegler > > Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > 43 Vassar St, 46-5121 > Cambridge, MA 02139 > > Tel: 617-258-0765 > > Fax: 617-253-1504 > > daz at mit.edu > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. 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The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From recasensmarc at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 28 19:11:55 2010 From: recasensmarc at GMAIL.COM (Marc Recasens) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:11:55 +0200 Subject: Remove muscle artifacts using ICA Message-ID: Dear all, I have quite a naive question. I'm processing some MEG (4-D) datasets in order to use source location methods afterwards. One of my concerns is that I have some channels (3 in a row) with a steady high frequency artifact >50Hz (I thought it is muscle activity, However it is very tonic and present during the whole recording) which is within my frequencies of interest. This can be seen in the attached figures: timelocked responses bandpass filtered between 15 and 150 Hz, and time-frequency activity between 50 and 100 Hz. As the artefactual channels are put altogether in the right edge of the sensor array (A148, A147 and A146) interpolation may not be a suitable method to eliminate those artefactual channels. (?) I was wondering whether it is possible to correct those artifacts using ICA in such a way similar to ECG artifact removal using component analysis, that is, by identifying and remove those components in the source analysis that explain the high-frequency artifacts present in some of my channels. Thanks a lot. -- Marc Recasens Tel.: +34 639 24 15 98 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the discussion between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL Fri Oct 29 09:52:57 2010 From: jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL (jan-mathijs schoffelen) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:52:57 +0200 Subject: Remove muscle artifacts using ICA In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Marc, Your figures seem to be missing, so it is hard to judge what the artifacts look like exactly. Could it be that one of your head localization coils was switched on througout the measurement? In general, if your goal is to do source localization, I would not try to fix ugly channels, but just omit them from the sensor-array, because there will be plenty of sensors left. The fixing operation (whatever way it is done, e.g. nearest neighbour interpolation, ICA etc) involves replacing each channel's estimate by a linear combination of a subset of/all other channels. You have to keep in mind that the solution to the forward model (i.e. the leadfields for the sources you want to estimate) have to take the same linear operation into account in order to give correct results. As such, irrespective of the fact that the noisy channels are on the edge of the array, interpolation does not really make sense, because you are not really improving the quality of your total signal array. Also, in this case, I don't expect that rejecting the independent component capturing the artifact will be that beneficial, because most likely the spatial topography of this component of this component will be confined to the three bad guys, with more or less random loadings on the rest of the channels. Did you check whether the artifact is present at the level of the reference sensors? If that's the case, you could consider applying the cfw and afw (compute fixed weights, and apply fixed weights) utilities from the 4D software. Best wishes Jan-Mathijs On Oct 28, 2010, at 7:11 PM, Marc Recasens wrote: > Dear all, > > I have quite a naive question. > I'm processing some MEG (4-D) datasets in order to use source > location methods afterwards. One of my concerns is that I have some > channels (3 in a row) with a steady high frequency artifact >50Hz (I > thought it is muscle activity, However it is very tonic and present > during the whole recording) which is within my frequencies of > interest. This can be seen in the attached figures: timelocked > responses bandpass filtered between 15 and 150 Hz, and time- > frequency activity between 50 and 100 Hz. > As the artefactual channels are put altogether in the right edge of > the sensor array (A148, A147 and A146) interpolation may not be a > suitable method to eliminate those artefactual channels. (?) > > I was wondering whether it is possible to correct those artifacts > using ICA in such a way similar to ECG artifact removal using > component analysis, that is, by identifying and remove those > components in the source analysis that explain the high-frequency > artifacts present in some of my channels. > > Thanks a lot. > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Marc Recasens > Tel.: +34 639 24 15 98 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You > are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the FieldTrip list. The aim of this list is to facilitate the > discussion > between users of the FieldTrip toolbox, to share experiences > and to discuss new ideas for MEG and EEG analysis. > See also http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/fieldtrip.html > and http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. J.M. 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