[FieldTrip] layout file error after upgrading to the newest version

[Marta Topor]

Hi Tzvetan,

Thank you for your quick response, much appreciated!

I have spent a bit of time today trying to work this out.
If I do not include the cfg.elec line, I get another error:
Error using ft_fetch_sens (line 202)
no electrodes, gradiometers or optodes specified.

I have checked through my code and files thoroughly and I do not have a 3D layout file. I initially created my layout file from an image and it has always been in 2D. It seems that when I was running the code before, it worked OK with the 2D file.

Do you have any ideas for getting around this issue? I tried adding 0s throughout the layout structure to "pretend" it was 3D but it also did not work that way.

Thanks again and best wishes,


_________________________

Marta Topor

PhD Candidate


Room 07AC04

School of Psychology

University of Surrey


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From: fieldtrip <fieldtrip-bounces at science.ru.nl> on behalf of Tzvetan Popov <tzvetan.popov at uni-konstanz.de>
Sent: 28 May 2021 7:37 AM
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Subject: Re: [FieldTrip] layout file error after upgrading to the newest version

Dear Marta,

In your cfg.elec, a 3D description of electrodes positions is expected. Yet you have a 2D layout structure. I assume that your neighbours are also defined in this 2D plane.
Can you comment out the cfg.elec line and try again? Ft_read_sens is not supposed to work on 2D layout file, hence the error.

Good luck,
tzvetan


On 27 May 2021, at 22:24, Marta Topor <m.topor at surrey.ac.uk<mailto:m.topor at surrey.ac.uk>> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

I came across a surprising error and I am struggling to figure it out.
I wrote a few scripts last year in version fieldtrip-20200409. They all worked fine, last time I worked with those scripts in that version was January 2021. I had to take care of a few other tasks since then, so the project was on pause. I had my work laptop upgraded in the meantime which meant I had to upgrade to the newest Fieldtrip version.

I started working on that same project again, in version fieldtrip-20210525, and noticed layout file issues when interpolating channels.

For a bit of background,  I am using the Mobita water-based 32 EEG electrode system. I created my own layout file in the previous Fieldtrip version which worked without any issues in all scripts.
I now have an error using the ft_channelrepair() funtion and I think it relates to the ft_read_sens() funtion.

The cfg I used:
cfg = [];
cfg.method          = 'spline';
cfg.neighbours      = neighbours_EEG;
cfg.badchannel      = badchannels_train;
cfg.senstype        = 'EEG';
cfg.elec            = layout_file;
mydata_interpolated_train = ft_channelrepair(cfg, mydata_artrm_train);


The layout file fields are:
pos: [34×2 double]
label: {34×1 cell}
width: [34×1 double]
height: [34×1 double]
outline: {1×4 cell}
mask: {[101×2 double]}
cfg: [1×1 struct]

But I can only see these fields if I use the function importdata(). When I use the function ft_read_sens() and when I try to interpolate channels, I get the following error:

Error message:
Unrecognized function or variable 'lab'.

Error in channelposition (line 352)
n = size(lab,2);

Error in ft_datatype_sens (line 438)
        [chanpos, chanori, lab] = channelposition(sens);

Error in ft_datatype_sens (line 240)
    sens      = ft_datatype_sens(sens, new_argin{:});

Error in ft_datatype_sens (line 207)
    sens      = ft_datatype_sens(sens, new_argin{:});

Error in ft_datatype_sens (line 180)
    sens      = ft_datatype_sens(sens, new_argin{:});

Error in ft_read_sens (line 539)
sens = ft_datatype_sens(sens);


There are no errors when I plot the channels using the following code though and it all looks absolutely fine:
cfg = [];
cfg.layout = layout_m; %layout_m is imported from the layout_file using the importdata() function
cfg.channel = 'eeg';
ft_layoutplot(cfg, mydata_artrm_train);


Any ideas what could be the issue here and how I could get it solved?
Thanks for your help in advance!

_________________________
Marta Topor
PhD Candidate

Room 07AC04
School of Psychology
University of Surrey

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