<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Eve,<div><br></div><div>there is also a function in EEGLAB to reject portion of continuous data automatically. Try</div><div><br></div><div>EEG = pop_rejcont(EEG);</div><div><br></div><div>I have evaluated this function and others against manual rejection. No function is perfect so rejections need to be checked manually. The function above will plot the data with the rejected regions.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Arno</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On 26 Sep 2012, at 00:56, Tarik S Bel-Bahar wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Hello Eve,</div><div><br></div><div>Until you find the tools in question in BCIlab,</div><div><br></div><div>One way to do this is as follows, let the list know if you have success</div><div>with these simple steps.</div>
<div><br></div><div>1. Prepare your data (filtering, re-referencing, bad channel dropping, etc...) </div><div>up to the point that you are ready to remove "artifactual time periods".</div><div><br></div><div>2. use eeg_regepochs to make a series of "fake" contiguous epochs,</div>
<div>choosing an epoch size of your choice (.5 or 1 second).</div><div><br></div><div>3. run the epoch rejection tool of choice within eeglab, which will lead</div><div>to the dropping of some subset of the fake epochs from step 2.</div>
<div><div> [you may have to try several different methods,</div><div>and determine what works best for your data]</div></div><div><br></div><div>4. if you are happy with retained epochs</div><div>run ICA on this newly cleaned set of fake contiguous epochs.</div>
<div>Note that you need to feed ICA enough data, and preferably</div><div>only periods of time when the cognitive activity in question was occurring.</div><div>for example, don't include the minutes of data when nothing was going on,</div>
<div>or "in between" your experimental blocks.</div><div><br></div><div>5. Now, if you are happy with the ICA decomposition you get</div><div>apply your ICA decomposition to the continuous file</div><div>just before step 2 above.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>6. At this point, you can make your "real" epochs based on </div><div>your true events, and again drop the artifactual epochs.</div><div>(for example, the epochs that have extreme values).</div>
<div>...and you should be able to move forward.</div><div><br></div><div>7. Note if you use AMICA from Jason Palmer, </div><div>it is possible for AMICA to discount artifactual periods via the "do_reject" flag.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Note: almost any method to remove artifactual periods from continuous data</div><div>will necessitate making "windows" within which the artifact detection method.</div><div>If you can learn to do it on your own, you could make fake epochs </div>
<div>via your own scripts, and then rejoin all the remaining epochs.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:43 PM, alotof eve <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alotof_tiger@yahoo.com" target="_blank">alotof_tiger@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><div><br></div><div><span>Dear experts,</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
<br><span></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><span>I cannot find the function of </span>semi-automatic
detection of artifact for continuous data in BCIlab as Makoto
suggested. Any other way to do semi-automatic detection of artifact for
continuous data (before segment) off-line?<br><br>We do ICA but we want to do some artifact detection before it. <br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">Many thanks,</div>Duo<div><br></div> <div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">
<div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div class="im"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> alotof eve <<a href="mailto:alotof_tiger@yahoo.com" target="_blank">alotof_tiger@yahoo.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> "<a href="mailto:mmiyakoshi@ucsd.edu" target="_blank">mmiyakoshi@ucsd.edu</a>"
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</div><div><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><div><span>Dear experts,</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
<br><span></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><span>I cannot find the function of </span>semi-automatic detection of artifact for continuous data in BCIlab as Makoto suggested. Any other way to do semi-automatic detection of artifact for continuous data (before segment) off-line?</div>
<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">
Many thanks,</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">Duo<br></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">
<div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div class="im"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Makoto Miyakoshi <<a href="mailto:mmiyakoshi@ucsd.edu" target="_blank">mmiyakoshi@ucsd.edu</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> alotof eve <<a href="mailto:alotof_tiger@yahoo.com" target="_blank">alotof_tiger@yahoo.com</a>> <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> "<a href="mailto:eeglablist@sccn.ucsd.edu" target="_blank">eeglablist@sccn.ucsd.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:eeglablist@sccn.ucsd.edu" target="_blank">eeglablist@sccn.ucsd.edu</a>>; Christian Kothe <<a href="mailto:christiankothe@gmail.com" target="_blank">christiankothe@gmail.com</a>> <br>
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Dear Duo,<br><br>BCIlab supports it. If you are interested in, please refer to BCIlab wiki.<br><a href="http://sccn.ucsd.edu/wiki/BCILAB" target="_blank">http://sccn.ucsd.edu/wiki/BCILAB</a><br>I also copy this to the developer of BCIlab, Christian Kothe, for comments.<br>
<br>Makoto<br><br>2012/9/19 alotof eve <<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:alotof_tiger@yahoo.com" target="_blank">alotof_tiger@yahoo.com</a>>:<br>> Hello, experts,<br>><br>> I have a question on semi-automatic detection of artifact. I noticed that<br>
> when only the data is segmented, we can use semi-automatic method on tool<br>> panel. When the data is continuous, the automatic method is invalid. I am<br>> doing data analysis and I am asked to find a way to do automatic rejection<br>
> on continuous data. I wonder if there is any reason that EEGLab dosen't<br>> offer this function? Any suggestion on doing semi-automatic detection on<br>> continous data?<br>><br>>
Thanks,<br>> Duo<br>><br>>
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