[FieldTrip] automatic artifact detection and ft_denoise_pca

"Jörn M. Horschig" jm.horschig at donders.ru.nl
Wed Feb 6 15:38:59 CET 2013


only a brilliant mind might have created such a guide - chapeau ^^

On 2/6/2013 3:17 PM, Stephen Whitmarsh wrote:
> Dear Robin,
>
> Please allow me to refer you to the excellent documentation on 
> (negative) padding and artifact rejection in this gorgeous didactical 
> masterpiece, a joy to behold:
> ***** 
> http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/tutorial/automatic_artifact_rejection *****
>
> ;-)
> Stephen
>
> On 6 February 2013 15:07, Robin <robince at gmail.com 
> <mailto:robince at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Jörn,
>
>     Thanks very much. Yes I think that will solve the problem - I hadn't
>     realised I could use negative trial padding values.
>     What I had just got working was as similar approach extracting larger
>     trials at first and then manually making a new trl defintion:
>
>         % artifact detection
>         tmpcfg = [];
>         tmpcfg.continuous = 'no'; % some trials are excluded
>         tmpcfg.trl = run_clean.sampleinfo;
>         tmpcfg.trl(:,1) = tmpcfg.trl(:,1) +
>     round(filterpad*run_clean.fsample);
>         tmpcfg.trl(:,2) = tmpcfg.trl(:,2) -
>     round(filterpad*run_clean.fsample);
>
>         [tmpcfg, artifact] = ft_artifact_muscle(tmpcfg, run_clean);
>
>     which seemed to work but the trlpadding option definitely looks
>     cleaner!
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Robin
>
>     On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:02 PM, "Jörn M. Horschig"
>     <jm.horschig at donders.ru.nl <mailto:jm.horschig at donders.ru.nl>> wrote:
>     > Hi Robin,
>     >
>     > I think the steps you suggested sound reasonable, but I do not
>     see how you
>     > are avoiding the filter artifact issue there, you just postpone
>     it to a
>     > later stage. Instead it might be a smart way to 'pad' your
>     trials when
>     > defining them with 1s pre- and post (so cut out more than you
>     need); that
>     > way all filter artifacts will be in that 1s that you are not
>     interested in
>     > anyway. Then, you can define cfg.xxx.trlpadding =-1 prior to calling
>     > ft_artifact_xxx (thereby ignoring that 1s of  'padded' data). If I
>     > understand your question correctly, that solves your problem,
>     doesn't it?
>     >
>     > Best,
>     > Jörn
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > On 2/6/2013 12:54 PM, Robin wrote:
>     >>
>     >> Hi all,
>     >>
>     >> I am a new fieldtrip user getting started preprocessing a large MEG
>     >> data set (I am in Glasgow and the data was collected at CCNi).
>     >>
>     >> I think I am slowly getting to grips with all the steps
>     necessary, but
>     >> I have a question about the artifact rejection.
>     >>
>     >> My undersanding is that the denoise procedure helps correct
>     external
>     >> sources of noise, so having the signal cleaned in this way
>     should help
>     >> detect the biological artifacts which are valid magnetic signal
>     at the
>     >> scalp. But I can't see an easy way to do this since the
>     ft_artifact_*
>     >> functions want to load the raw continuous data from disk. I can get
>     >> them to act on the in memory trials data if I set the padding
>     options
>     >> to 0, but then I get an unacceptable amount of rejections (I guess
>     >> because of the filter artifacts the padding usually prevents).
>     >>
>     >> Is it possible to run ft_artifact_muscle, ft_artifact_eog etc.
>     on the
>     >> denoised signal from ft_denoise_pca and if so how?
>     >>
>     >> At the moment I am performing the following steps:
>     >>
>     >> Load each run
>     >> Detect jumps with ft_artifact_jump.
>     >> Concatenate the jump-free trials from all runs together for
>     this block.
>     >>
>     >> Visually inspect the reference channels and remove high variance
>     >> trials (across the whole block).
>     >> Compute denoise PCA weights using only good reference data (and
>     no MEG
>     >> jump) trials across the whole block.
>     >>
>     >> I would now like to apply the denoise PCA weights, perform other
>     >> automatic artifact removal on the cleaned data, before further
>     visual
>     >> inspection and the next steps of ICA etc.
>     >>
>     >> Is there any problems with this strategy?
>     >>
>     >> Thanks in advance for any advice,
>     >>
>     >> Robin
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>     >
>     >
>     > --
>     > Jörn M. Horschig
>     > PhD Student
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>     > Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
>     > Radboud University Nijmegen
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Jörn M. Horschig
PhD Student
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
Radboud University Nijmegen
Neuronal Oscillations Group
FieldTrip Development Team

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