[Eeglablist] Import of Brainlab .sig files

[Makoto Miyakoshi]

Well if this is the case it's beyond my knowledge... maybe you need to ask
the manufacture for the data reader. Good luck.

Makoto


2014-04-02 13:11 GMT-07:00 Simon-Shlomo Poil <poil.simonshlomo at gmail.com>:

> Hi Makoto,
>
> No that doesn't work. It seems like the file is encoded somehow, because I
> just get random signs and letters. Nothing that looks like a numeric
> Matrix. In the style of "� � � � u J 1 D O : + = R * � �"
>
> If I use fread I do get numeric data, but it doesn't look right, e.g. "255
>    254
>    254
>    225
>    254
>    203
>    254
>    179
>    254
>    128
>    254
>     78
>     94
>      9"
>
> It looks encoded. I also need the event data from the file, which somehow
> probably is stored in the header..
>
> -Simon
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 2014-04-02 21:48 GMT+02:00 Makoto Miyakoshi <mmiyakoshi at ucsd.edu>:
>
>>  Dear Simon,
>>
>>  But you can read what's in the first line, second line, third line...
>> So, you open it using fopen, and obtain the first line by fgetl, and
>> check what is in the 'firstLine'. Every time you run fgetl it obtains the
>> new line, so you repeat it until you reach the beginning of numeric arrays.
>> Does it not work?
>>
>>  % open the file
>> FID = fopen(input);
>>
>>  % skip the first two lines
>> firstLine  = fgetl(FID);
>> secondLine = fgetl(FID);
>>  ...
>>
>>  Makoto
>>
>>
>> 2014-04-02 12:43 GMT-07:00 Simon-Shlomo Poil <poil.simonshlomo at gmail.com>
>> :
>>
>>   Dear Makoto,
>>>
>>> Thank you for you answer.
>>>
>>>  Unfortunately that approach only works if you know the structure of the
>>> binary files. My problem is that I don't know the specification of the .sig
>>> format (and it also seems like these are not online).
>>>
>>>  Best wishes,
>>>  Simon
>>>
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>>> 2014-04-02 21:35 GMT+02:00 Makoto Miyakoshi <mmiyakoshi at ucsd.edu>:
>>>
>>>  Dear Simon-Shlomo,
>>>>
>>>>  I wrote readNihonKodenM00(). The solution used there (using fopen(),
>>>> fgetl(), fscanf()...) could be also applied to your dataset. Please
>>>> download the plugin NihonKoden from here (or via download manager if EEGLAB
>>>> v13 or later)
>>>> http://sccn.ucsd.edu/wiki/Plugin_list_import
>>>>
>>>>  Makoto
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2014-04-02 2:42 GMT-07:00 Simon-Shlomo Poil <poil.simonshlomo at gmail.com
>>>> >:
>>>>
>>>>>    Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>>  I have a problem importing .sig files from Brainlab to Matlab (I have
>>>>> .sig and .sts file for each recording).
>>>>>
>>>>>  It seems that neither EEGLAB nor Fieldtrip supports import of these
>>>>> files.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Does anybody have an idea of how to import these files to Matlab?
>>>>>
>>>>>  Best regards,
>>>>> Simon-Shlomo Poil, Dr.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  --
>>>> Makoto Miyakoshi
>>>> Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience
>>>> Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>  --
>> Makoto Miyakoshi
>> Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience
>> Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego
>>
>
>


-- 
Makoto Miyakoshi
Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience
Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego
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