[FieldTrip] about detrend

Yun Wen Yun.Wen at nottingham.ac.uk
Sun Dec 7 11:53:26 CET 2014


Hi, Alexander. Thank you for your help. Do you suggest that I do baseline correction plus detrend, e,g,  cfg.blc = 'yes' & cfg.detrend = 'yes' on epoched data?
Best,
Yun


From: fieldtrip-bounces at science.ru.nl [mailto:fieldtrip-bounces at science.ru.nl] On Behalf Of Alexander Nakhnikian
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2014 1:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [FieldTrip] about detrend

It looks as though the take home message is that in theory high pass filters remove DC but you can't be sure how they will interact with empirical data since there is no perfect filter in the real world.  If other people report substantial artifacts after filtering data without removing the DC component I suggest getting rid of it.  To answer your original question, assuming you're detrending each epoch individually it should remove the DC component or at least reduce it substantially.

I hope that helps.



On 12/5/14, 6:20 PM, Yun Wen wrote:
Hi, Alexander & Rodrigo. Thank you very much for your help. I collected my data with DC recordings (BioSemi system). I have seen some discussion on the DC offset:
http://sccn.ucsd.edu/pipermail/eeglablist/2014/008068.html
http://sccn.ucsd.edu/pipermail/eeglablist/2008/002229.html
http://sccn.ucsd.edu/pipermail/eeglablist/2010/003315.html
http://erpinfo.org/erplab/erplab-documentation/manual/Filtering.html

It seems to me that I'd better remove DC offset of continuous data before high-pass filter. Am I right?
Best,
Yun

From: fieldtrip-bounces at science.ru.nl<mailto:fieldtrip-bounces at science.ru.nl> [mailto:fieldtrip-bounces at science.ru.nl] On Behalf Of Alexander Nakhnikian
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 10:19 PM
To: FieldTrip discussion list
Subject: Re: [FieldTrip] about detrend

Hello Again,

I think there's an error in my response. I think removing the linear trend should also set the mean to zero already since the best fit line incorporates vertical offset.  Sorry about that.

A




On 12/5/14, 4:20 PM, Yun Wen wrote:
Hi all, I want to remove DC offset before applying the high-pass filter. I  was wondering if I can achieve that by putting cfg.detrend = 'yes' before cfg.hpfilter = 'yes', something like:

cfg = [];
cfg.dataset = filename_raweeg;
cfg.detrend = 'yes';
cfg.hpfilter = 'yes';
cfg.hpfiltord = 2; % Order of the filter = 2.
cfg.hpfreq = 0.1; % High-pass cutoff at 0.1 Hz;
[data] = ft_preprocessing (cfg);

Thank you in advance.

Best,
Yun






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