[FieldTrip] channelrepair issue

Rojas, Don ( Employee MEG-SOM ) Don.Rojas at ucdenver.edu
Sat Jul 9 00:57:44 CEST 2011


As a short follow up on this, the behavior of ft_neighbourplot is suspect only when supplying a cfg.neighbours field and plotting the result using the 2d layout file (as in the example I gave below), so this issue may not be the same as for the channel repair function. Using no layout file, the 3D plotted locations and labels appear to be correct. I can verify that the lower level functions called by ft_neighbourplot such as channelposition.m are returning the correct position and label info, but haven't had time to track the 2d plotting result down further. The neighbours returned by ft_neighbourselection also appear to be okay given a specified input distance.

On Jul 8, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Rojas, Don ( Employee MEG-SOM ) wrote:

Jörn, Jim et al.

There is indeed a general problem, most likely with channel indexing, in gradiometer systems. I think the data are read correctly with the low level functions, but functions like ft_channelrepair, ft_neighbourselection and ft_neighbourplot are not accounting for the locations correctly. I have attached a picture that I think illustrates this issue reasonably well. The following code was used t<neighbors.jpg>o generate this plot:

% read in data
cfg = [];
cfg.dataset = 'e,rfhp1.0Hz,COH';
coh = ft_preprocessing(cfg);

% get neighbors and plot
cfg = [];
cfg.neighbourdist = .03;
cfg.neighbours = ft_neighbourselection(cfg,coh);
cfg.layout = '4D248.lay';
ft_neighbourplot(cfg,coh);

You can see that the channel selected is labeled A216, which is incorrect - it should be A248. It's three neighbors are also incorrect (A208, A118 and A134 should probably be A195, A228 and A247).

I'm guessing this is the same indexing issue for gradiometers. Jan-Mathijs mentioned a fixed version of ft_channelrepair appearing today, so perhaps it will be the same problem and the fix can be propagated to these other functions.

Don

On Jul 8, 2011, at 2:20 AM, Jörn M. Horschig wrote:

Dear Jim, Don and others,

First of all, what Don suggested sounds indeed like the cause, if I remember things correctly (with my limited experience).

Anyhow, could one of you check ft_neighbourplot with the dataset and the neighbourselection of choice? This allows you to see what neighbours are selected for which sensors and where they lie in space. If this looks fine, than the problem lies indeed in how sensor position is deduced from the data structure.

Best,
Jörn


On 7/8/2011 9:11 AM, jan-mathijs schoffelen wrote:
Dear Don,

This sounds like a very likely cause of the problem. When we wrote the 4D reading code at the time, we had the 248-channel magnetometer system in mind. It could be that there are some flaws related to the handling of gradiometers. This should not only lead to (erratic) issues at the level of channelrepair, but may also cause mayhem when doing planar gradient transformation, or source reconstruction.
Would you happen to
1) feel like tackling this one with me, and improve FieldTrip to deal with gradiometer systems correctly?

or

2) have a small gradiometer dataset which you can send to me (e.g. through DropBox), so that I can look into it?

We can further discuss this off the discussion list.

Best wishes,

Jan-Mathijs



On Jul 8, 2011, at 3:36 AM, Rojas, Don ( Employee MEG-SOM ) wrote:

Jim et al.

In thinking about this further, it seems to me that it is the indexing that is incorrect. The problem I think is specific to gradiometer systems, which have two (or more) locations per channel. The function appears to assume that the sensor index based on the sens.label field (only 1 per channel) will correspond 1 to 1 with the sens.grad field (2 locations per channel), which is not correct. So, my guess is that for first-order gradiometer systems, the correct index for the sensor location is 2x the index in the sens.label field.

So, in an example I have handy at home, the label index for channel A234 is 107. Since I think Fieldtrip stores gradiometer locations (by default) as:

Chn 1 lower coil x, y z
Chn 1 upper coil x, y z
Chn 2 lower coil x, y z
Chn 2 upper coil x, y z
.
.
.
Chn N

I think the correct position info for channel A234 would be found in sens.grad(214,:), not sens.grad(107,:), which is what the ft_channelrepair function chooses. So I think this is a bug in the function specific to gradiometer systems.

Best,

Don

On Jul 7, 2011, at 5:38 PM, Jim Li wrote:

Thank you very much for confirming the problem, Don, I appreciate it, :)

Jim

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Rojas, Don <Don.Rojas at ucdenver.edu<mailto:Don.Rojas at ucdenver.edu>> wrote:
Jim,

All I can do is confirm that this issue exists for our 4D data as well, although we don't use the ft_channelrepair function. The same 4 quite distant channels (one had been deleted in the dataset I had handy) were chosen for repair when I ran this on one of our datasets (also a 248 channel 4D system). I agree the choice doesn't make any sense given the 3 cm distance you define. A quick look at the critical calculation in ft_channelrepair, line 109 distance = ... is correct given the inputs. So I wonder if the issue is with the actual channel indices used rather than the calculation, but I don't have time to track that down. All I can say is that for the distance you specify, channels A235, A216, A199, A215 would be much closer to A234 than those that are selected via the channel repair function. Channel A8 is in fact nearly 21 cm away from channel A234 in the array, based on examination of the data read in from Eugene Kronberg's pdf4D matlab object code, which I think was originally the basis for the FieldTrip 4D reader function.

Best,

Don Rojas


On Jul 7, 2011, at 1:26 PM, Jim Li wrote:

Dear Fieldtrip developer,

Can anybody help me with this channel-repair issue I've been having? I can provide the raw data if you need. I really want to solve the problem, you know.

Thanks a lot,

Jim

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Jim Li <megjim1 at gmail.com<mailto:megjim1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Odelia,

Yes, I downloaded the latest version of Fieldtrip and tried your suggestion "cfg.neighbourdist = 0.03",   but it still weirdly uses the far-away channels like A121 to do the channel-repair for A234 (these two channels are 24.1172cm apart!).  Here is the detail:

---------------------------
cfg                         = [];
cfg.dataset                 = 'e,rfhp0.1Hz';
cfg.trialdef.eventtype      = 'TRIGGER';
cfg.trialdef.eventvalue     = 320;
cfg.trialdef.prestim        = 1;
cfg.trialdef.poststim       = 1;
cfg                         = ft_definetrial(cfg);
cfg.blc                     = 'yes';                              % do baseline correction with the complete trial

cfg.blcwindow               = [-1 0];
cfg.channel                 = {'MEG'};
raw_DATA                    = ft_preprocessing(cfg);


cfg = [];
cfg.badchannel = {'A234'};
cfg.neighbourdist =  0.03;

[raw_DATA] = ft_channelrepair(cfg, raw_DATA)

---------------------------------------------------------------------

And here is the outcome: -----------------------------

the input is raw data with 248 channels and 201 trials
repairing channel A234
  using neighbour A121
  using neighbour A143
  using neighbour A173
  using neighbour A8

repairing bad channels for trial 1
repairing bad channels for trial 2
repairing bad channels for trial 3
repairing bad channels for trial 4
repairing bad channels for trial 5
repairing bad channels for trial 6
repairing bad channels for trial 7
repairing bad channels for trial 8
repairing bad channels for trial 9
repairing bad channels for trial 10
....

-------------------------

Thank you.

Jim
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