[FieldTrip] processing ANT cnt files with FieldTrip

Arnaud Delorme arno at cerco.ups-tlse.fr
Thu Jan 10 08:08:05 CET 2013


Hi Dave and Robert,

By the way, after much research, we figured out there was a bug for the 32 bit version of the software when importing events (scaling of time was in second instead of milliseconds)
The issue is that the Windows 32 bit version uses 

read_eep_trg.dll

to read triggers and that the 64 bit version uses

read_eep_trg.m

(programmed by Robert)
now I would suggest to delete read_eep_trg.dll, which does not bring much speed anyway.
Just so you know,

Arno

On 21 Dec 2012, at 23:22, Robert Oostenveld wrote:

> Hi Dave,
> 
> Raquels reply pointed me to the (now fully open source) version of libeep. Previous versions of the libraries and mex files were hard to compile, but I have just given it another try and after a few attempts I ended up with
> 
> make distclean
> ./configure --enable-matlab  --enable-shared=no
> make
> 
> which compiled the mex files in a format that did not require the shared libraries. This is the best way for having them, because then you don't have to bother with the shared library path. I guess that this would also work on your 64-bit linux computer.
> 
> It would be nice to have the latest version of the mex files working out of the box again, so I will file this as bug (see http://bugzilla.fcdonders.nl/show_bug.cgi?id=1913). Getting it on all three common (win/linux/.osx) platforms and in 32 and 64 bit versions will take some time though.
> 
> best regards,
> Robert
> 
> 
> On 18 Dec 2012, at 20:18, Dave Britton wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, Arno,
>> I've installed the ant-eep import files into the EEGLAB plugin directory, but EEGLAB gives me the same error message as I got with FieldTrip:
>> 
>> EEGLAB error in function loadeep() at line 75
>> Invalid MEX-file '/home/dave/eeglab11_0_4_3b/plugins/anteeimport1.08/read_eep_cnt.mexa64': libeep.so.3:cannot open shared object file:No such file or directory
>> 
>> The libeep.so.3 file is copied into the same directory as the read_eep_cnt.mexa64 file.
>> 
>> Do you have any suggestions?
>> -Dave
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/18/2012 12:38 PM, Arnaud Delorme wrote:
>>> Dear Dave,
>>> 
>>> last time I have checked FileIO (the Fieldtrip data importer) will not read ANT trigger files by default (it should read the raw data though - Robert Oostenveld one of the main developer of Fieldtrip was interning at ANT about 10 years ago and wrote the Matlab import function for them).
>>> The anteepimport1.09 is a plugin for the EEGLAB software. It can import events (and then you can save the data in EEGLAB format and reload it in Fieldtrip). You cannot recompile the ANT project (their source files are proprietary and not included).
>>> 
>>> Hope this helps.
>>> Best wishes,
>>> 
>>> Arno
>>> 
>>> On 18 Dec 2012, at 08:59, Dave Britton wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I am trying to process EEG data in .cnt files obtained from the ANT system. I am using a Linux Xubuntu 12.04 amd64 operating system. I have installed the Linux 64 bit version of FieldTrip.
>>>> 
>>>> What is required to successfully process ANT eeg .cnt and .trg files? The libraries that came with the FieldTrip download did not work as it came from the download, and my investigations led me to what should be the latest version of the ANT import library. I have downloaded the latest ANT eep library, anteepimport1.09/libeep-3.3.167, and run config, make and make install, successfully, but MATLAB cannot find the shared object file it should generate, even when I link the .so.3 file into the same directory as the MATLAB m-file and the MATLAB current directory.
>>>> 
>>>> Initially the system was unable to read the cnt files, which is why I attempted to reinstall the anteepimort library. Is there more to this installation than the standard" configure, make, make install" process? Any clues would be appreciated!
>>>> 
>>>> Dave Britton
>>>> City College of New York
>>>> Psychology Dept.
>>>> 
>>>> Here is the error message I get:
>>>> 
>>>>>> cfg.headerfile = '/home/dave/semanticflanker/data/ANT/20121114_1013.cnt';
>>>>>> cfg.hdr = ft_read_header(cfg.headerfile);
>>>> Invalid MEX-file
>>>> '/home/dave/fieldtrip-20121102/anteepimport1.09/libeep-3.3.167/mex/matlab/read_eep_cnt.mexa64':
>>>> libeep.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>>> 
>>>> Error in ft_read_header (line 627)
>>>> hdr = read_eep_cnt(filename, 1, 1);
>>>> 
>>>> 
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