[FieldTrip] ft_channelrepair shows no effect at all
KatrinH Heimann
katrinheimann at gmail.com
Tue Aug 19 10:05:53 CEST 2014
Eelke! I am sure your name translates in Angel actually! Now everthing
works!!! And so easily!
The version I reinstalled is Matlab R2012a. I had R 2014a for some weeks,
but loads of things did not work with that... Thanks a million for your
help, really! Katrin
2014-08-19 9:14 GMT+02:00 Eelke Spaak <eelke.spaak at donders.ru.nl>:
> Hi Katrin,
>
> Hmm, the MATLAB version difference points to a potential bug in the
> code. Could you tell me which version it now works on, and which
> version it did not work on earlier?
>
> ICA not working on your repaired data makes sense, and the cause is in
> fact pretty much what you mentioned yourself. The data in the repaired
> channels are now linear combinations (i.e. weighted sums) of the data
> in other channels, so the rank of your data (number of orthogonal data
> vectors) is now smaller than the number of channels. In other words,
> your data is rank deficient. ICA does not work properly on
> rank-deficient data. There are a few solutions to this.
>
> I would not recommend including the bad channels in the ICA. Your
> second suggestion would be better: compute ICA on the data without the
> bad channels, then interpolate them after backprojecting to channel
> space. A third option would be to reduce the dimensionality of the ICA
> input data to its 'true' dimensionality. If you specify
> cfg.numcomponent = N when calling ft_componentanalysis, the data will
> first undergo PCA, keeping N dimensions. In your case you would need
> to set N to be maximally the number of recorded channels minus the
> number of interpolated ones. This third option is probably the easiest
> and best way to go.
>
> Lastly, the fact that ICA still works if you repair the channels in
> other software is possibly due to this other software applying some
> form of non-linear algorithm to repair the channels. In that case the
> rank of your data might not be altered.
>
> Best,
> Eelke
>
> On 19 August 2014 00:09, KatrinH Heimann <katrinheimann at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear Eelke,
> >
> > ok, so i installed an older version of matlab (which also solved some
> other
> > problems with fieldtrip) and now it works. However I am running into
> another
> > problem with it. Maybe you can help too:
> > If I try to run the ICA after the bad channel replacement it takes hours
> and
> > wchange just does not get lower. In my naive thinking I thought that
> might
> > be due to the fact that the replaced channels are recognized as
> > interpolations of the others??? But what could I do otherwise?: I thought
> > about doing the bcr later, but that means that my ica suffers from all
> the
> > electrode jumps from my bad channels. or I just exclude them from the
> ica -
> > but how to proceed then: apply the reject component function on the data
> > without the channels and then replace them? sorry, I am just a bit lost.
> The
> > weirdest thing is: if I replace the channels with the help of another
> > software before even processing the data, the ica works perfectly later
> in
> > fieldtrip. WHY????
> > Would be wonderful if you could give me another hand... Thanks so much in
> > advance!!!
> > Katrin
> >
> >
> > 2014-08-18 10:18 GMT+02:00 Eelke Spaak <eelke.spaak at donders.ru.nl>:
> >
> >> Dear Katrin,
> >>
> >> When I look at the data you've shown me, in fact I do see an effect of
> >> ft_channelrepair. I run your code:
> >>
> >> load ('ERP_Francesca17obs90_clean.mat')
> >>
> >> %% Preparing neighbours for channel repair
> >>
> >> cfg_neighb = [];
> >> cfg_neighb.feedback = 'yes';
> >> cfg_neighb.method = 'triangulation';
> >> cfg_neighb.layout = 'GSN-HydroCel-129.sfp';
> >> neighbours = ft_prepare_neighbours(cfg_neighb, obs90_data_clean2);
> >>
> >> % Interpolate and put into new data structure
> >> cfg = [];
> >> cfg.badchannel = {'E49', 'E68'};
> >> cfg.layout = 'GSN-HydroCel-129.sfp';
> >> cfg.method = 'nearest';
> >> cfg.neighbours = neighbours;
> >> obs90_data_channelrepaired = ft_channelrepair(cfg,obs90_data_clean2);
> >>
> >> followed by:
> >>
> >> dat1=obs90_data_clean2;
> >> dat2=obs90_data_channelrepaired;
> >>
> >> x=dat1.trial{1}(68,:); % 68 is channel index of E68
> >> y=dat2.trial{1}(68,:);
> >> plot(x);hold on;plot(y,'r');
> >>
> >> x=dat1.trial{1}(49,:);
> >> y=dat2.trial{1}(49,:);
> >> figure;
> >> plot(x);hold on;plot(y,'r')
> >>
> >> and the two figures that come up are shown in the attachments. The
> >> original (blue) and channel-repaired (red) traces are clearly
> >> different. These plots are for trial 1, but the same result holds when
> >> I plot a different trial.
> >>
> >> Does it work on your end too now?
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Eelke
> >>
> >> On 14 August 2014 08:57, Eelke Spaak <eelke.spaak at donders.ru.nl> wrote:
> >> > OK just checking :) In that case, could you post a small snippet of
> >> > data and the actual cfg you used (including which channels to repair)
> >> > on e.g. dropbox or so? Then I can have a look.
> >> >
> >> > Best,
> >> > Eelke
> >> >
> >> > On 13 August 2014 22:12, KatrinH Heimann <katrinheimann at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >> Dear Eelke, yes, sure, sorry, I did that. No effect.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> 2014-08-13 21:55 GMT+02:00 Eelke Spaak <eelke.spaak at donders.ru.nl>:
> >> >>
> >> >>> Dear Katrin,
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Have you tried putting the labels of the channels you want
> >> >>> interpolated
> >> >>> into the cfg.badchannel array?
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Best,
> >> >>> Eelke
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Op 13 aug. 2014 19:24 schreef "KatrinH Heimann"
> >> >>> <katrinheimann at gmail.com>:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Dear all. I am trying to replace bad channels.
> >> >>>> This is my code (very basic I think):%% Preparing neighbours for
> >> >>>> channel
> >> >>>> repair
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> cfg_neighb = [];
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> cfg_neighb.feedback = 'yes';
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> cfg_neighb.method = 'triangulation';
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> cfg_neighb.layout = 'GSN-HydroCel-129.sfp';
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> neighbours = ft_prepare_neighbours(cfg_neighb, obs_data);
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> % Interpolate and put into new data structure
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> cfg = [];
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> cfg.badchannel = {};
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> cfg.layout = 'GSN-HydroCel-129.sfp';
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> cfg.method = 'nearest';
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> cfg.neighbours = neighbours;
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> obs_data_channelrepaired = ft_channelrepair(cfg,obs_data)
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> I do not get any error but fieldtrip even tells me that the
> >> >>>> interpolation
> >> >>>> worked. However I do not see ANY trace of it in my data when
> >> >>>> inspecting it
> >> >>>> afterwards. I also tried to change the method (to average) - no
> >> >>>> change.
> >> >>>> Anybody who can help me with that?
> >> >>>> Thanks a million
> >> >>>> Katrin
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
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