<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>There are prolbems of running speed that I have met when I am doing ICA analysis, and I really need your help.</div><div><br></div><div>The data I have is in 66 channels (64 EEG channels and 2 EOG channels). The preprocess procedure here only involves filtering (high pass, 0.1HZ), rejecting bad epochs manually, and interpolating
<span style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">bad channel<span>s (method, 'sphereral')</span></span>. </div><div><br></div><div>I found that:</div><div>1, if the bad channels have been removed and interpolated, then the following ICA on this data is rather time costing, it would take 1~2 hours to start the learning rate, and 7 hours later, it only went 50 steps.</div><div><br></div><div>However, if I choose reference the data before ICA or doing ICA without those interpolated channels, the speed of running ICA become normal, and the data of one subject can be processed in one hour.</div><div><br></div><div>2, if I have removed one component (usually the eye blick), after that, when I am trying to re-run ICA, the probelm comes again: the starting learning rate is low, and it takes ages to run the data.</div><div><br></div><div>The weired thing is that the problem happened here exists in most of the subjects (30of40), but for others, it is okay to re-run without any change.</div><div><br></div><div>I do have tried your other suggestions that set the 'icatype' to 'pca' in the second run if some components have been removed, or define the 'ncomps' as the number of the decreased dimension. The former change ('pca') can re-speed the ICA but the latter won't (define ncomps).</div><div><br></div><div>I become more and more confused. As the problem mentioned above, my question here is:</div><div><br></div><div>1, Can I run ICA if some channels are correlated to others? if there are correlated channels, the ICA running seems doesn't work.</div><div><br></div><div>2, After removing one component in the first run, is it possible to ru-run ICA without any additional parameter setting? I can understand that the number of data demension has been reduced after substracting components, but I don't understand why it can work in some subjects and not work for all.</div><div><br></div><div>Your reply is really of great value for this work. Looking forward to it.</div><div>Thanks a lot.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Melinna </div><div>Department of Psychology</div><div>Sun-Yat Sen University</div><div>China</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div>