[FieldTrip] Running the ICA method to remove EOG/ECG artifact on Neuromag(*.fif) data

[jan-mathijs schoffelen]

Hi Alex,

> it does yes. My question is then how do you compute the withering matrix?

That's the magic of EEGlab ;-). I did not look into the code but I would assume based on the estimate of the precision matrix. Do you think the magnitude problem will lead to numerical issues upon inversion of the covariance matrix?

>> Also can Fieldtrip write data back into fif files keeping intact
>> all the measurement info?
>> 
>> Not really; I have some code of Lauri's (which is not yet in FT), which can
>> write epoched data to a fif-file. However, most of the measurement info is
>> lost along the way.
> 
> that's what I feared.
> 
>> Also, since we're not fif-experts, it's not trivial for
>> us to find out how the measurement info should be formatted. Of course it is
>> possible to reverse engineer this from the mne-code, but this is heavily
>> geared towards elekta hardware. Yet, I could imagine that this functionality
>> could be valuable, because it would enable two-way traffic of data between
>> FT and MNE-suite.
> 
> that would be very valuable indeed.
> 
>> Do you happen to have any code that writes meaningful
>> measurement info?
> 
> not in one function or at least not in matlab.
> 
> one should have a fiff_write_meas_info.m that does the opposite to:
> 
> https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-matlab/blob/master/matlab/fiff_read_meas_info.m
> 
> part of the answer is in:
> 
> https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-matlab/blob/master/matlab/fiff_write_evoked.m
> 
> a python example is in :
> 
> https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python/blob/master/mne/fiff/meas_info.py#L235
> 
> but I agree you need a fairly good understanding of the fif format…
> 
> we might have to sit down together to do this.

I am afraid so. Well, I would certainly be up for it, because it would further strengthen both packages. Shall I come to you, or will you come to me ;-)?

JM



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Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, MD PhD 

Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, 
Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging,
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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