[Eeglablist] converting .set data back to .cnt or .eeg neuroscandata file

Sehatpour, Pejman PSehatpour at NKI.RFMH.ORG
Tue Jan 25 12:32:40 PST 2005


Hi qi yang,

You need to use a little trick. 

1-First open the original .eeg file in neuroscan (before any
manipulations in EEGLAB) and save it as .dat.

2-Then do your work in EEGLAB and save the eeglab .set data as ASCII or
a .txt file. (make sure that the data has the same orientation
eg:rows=points)

3-Paste this new data in place of the data that you saved originally and
save this as a new .dat file. (this will allow you to have the correct
header information for neuroscan). Just note that if you made
manipulations such as changing the dig.-rate etc. in EEGLAB, then you
will have to make the appropriate changes in the neuroscan header as
well.

4- Open this .dat file in neuroscan and save it as .eeg

 

There might also be a direct way to export the .set file to the .eeg or
.cnt format of neuroscan; so if anyone knows about it please email.

Best,

Pejman.

 

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From: eeglablist-bounces at sccn.ucsd.edu
[mailto:eeglablist-bounces at sccn.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Yang, Qi
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:13 PM
To: eeglablist at sccn.ucsd.edu
Subject: [Eeglablist] converting .set data back to .cnt or .eeg
neuroscandata file

 

Hi, 

I think this topic has been touched before. 
I want to convert the eeglab .set data into .cnt or .eeg neuroscan 
file for further analysis in other software.
There are some codes uploaded before (as following) .
But it seems not work? 

The input 'dataset' is the CNT-dataset you 
already have or a blank structure? 
This works for converting to .eeg data? 

Anybody has implemented those code?
or anybody has any other good suggestions?
  

Thank you very much! 

Regards, 

qi yang 





% writecnt() - Write a Neuroscan continuous signal file. 
% 
% Usage: 
%   >> writecnt(filename, CNT-dataset, varargin) 
% 
% Inputs: 
%   filename - name of the file with extension 
%   dataset -  name of the CNT-dataset, a structure with the following
fields 
%                   cntdataset.header 
%                   cntdataset.electloc 
%                   cntdataset.data 
%                   cntdataset.Teeg 
%                   cntdataset.event 
%                   cntdataset.tag 
%                   cntdataset.endtag 
% 
% Optional inputs: 
%  't1'         - start at time t1, default 0 
%  'sample1'    - start at sample1, default 0, overrides t1 
%  'lddur'      - duration of segment to load, default = whole file 
%  'ldnsamples' - number of samples to load, default = whole file, 
%                 overrides lddur 
%  'scale'      - ['on'|'off'] scale data to microvolt (default:'on') 
%  'dataformat' - ['int16'|'int32'] default is 'int16' for 16-bit data. 
%                 Use 'int32' for 32-bit data. 
% 
% Outputs: 
%  file         - file containing NeuroScan CNT file with the continuous

%                 data and other information 
% 
% Authors:   Sean Fitzgibbon, Arnaud Delorme, Michiel Vestjens 2000-2004

% 
% Known limitations: 
%  For more see http://www.cnl.salk.edu/~arno/cntload/index.html    

%12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901
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% Copyright (C) 2000 Sean Fitzgibbon, <psspf at id.psy.flinders.edu.au> 
% Copyright (C) 2003 Arnaud Delorme, Salk Institute, arno at salk.edu 
% 
% This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 
% it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 
% the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or 
% (at your option) any later version. 
% 
% This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 
% but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
% MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the 
% GNU General Public License for more details. 
% 
% You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 
% along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 
% Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307
USA 

function f = writecnt(filename,cntdataset,varargin) 

if ~isempty(varargin) 
         WriteOptions=struct(varargin{:}); 
else WriteOptions = []; 
end; 

try, WriteOptions.t1;         catch, WriteOptions.t1=0; end 
try, WriteOptions.sample1;    catch, WriteOptions.sample1=[]; end 
try, WriteOptions.lddur;      catch, WriteOptions.lddur=[]; end 
try, WriteOptions.ldnsamples; catch, WriteOptions.ldnsamples=[]; end 
try, WriteOptions.scale;      catch, WriteOptions.scale='on'; end 
try, WriteOptions.dataformat;  catch, WriteOptions.dataformat='int16';
end 

sizeEvent1 = 8  ; %%% 8  bytes for Event1  
sizeEvent2 = 19 ; %%% 19 bytes for Event2 

type='cnt'; 
if nargin ==1 
    scan=0; 
end     

h   = cntdataset.header; 
e   = cntdataset.electloc; 
dat = cntdataset.data; 
eT  = cntdataset.Teeg; 
ev2 = cntdataset.event; 
t   = cntdataset.tag; 
endtag=cntdataset.endtag; 

 

fid = fopen(filename,'w'); 
disp(['Writing file ' filename ' ...']) 

% HEADER : 900 bytes => Starts at 0h, finishes with 383h. 

fwrite(fid,h.rev,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.nextfile,'long'); 
fwrite(fid,h.prevfile,'long'); 
fwrite(fid,h.type,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.id,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.oper,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.doctor,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.referral,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.hospital,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.patient,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.age,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.sex,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.hand,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.med,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.category,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.state,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.label,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.date,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.time,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.mean_age,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.stdev,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.n,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.compfile,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.spectwincomp,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.meanaccuracy,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.meanlatency,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.sortfile,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.numevents,'int'); 
fwrite(fid,h.compoper,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.avgmode,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.review,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.nsweeps,'ushort'); 
fwrite(fid,h.compsweeps,'ushort'); 
fwrite(fid,h.acceptcnt,'ushort'); 
fwrite(fid,h.rejectcnt,'ushort'); 
fwrite(fid,h.pnts,'ushort'); 
fwrite(fid,h.nchannels,'ushort'); 
fwrite(fid,h.avgupdate,'ushort'); 
fwrite(fid,h.domain,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.variance,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.rate,'ushort'); 
fwrite(fid,h.scale,'double'); 
fwrite(fid,h.veogcorrect,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.heogcorrect,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.aux1correct,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.aux2correct,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.veogtrig,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.heogtrig,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.aux1trig,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.aux2trig,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.heogchnl,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.veogchnl,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.aux1chnl,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.aux2chnl,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.veogdir,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.heogdir,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.aux1dir,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.aux2dir,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.veog_n,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.heog_n,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.aux1_n,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.aux2_n,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.veogmaxcnt,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.heogmaxcnt,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.aux1maxcnt,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.aux2maxcnt,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.veogmethod,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.heogmethod,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.aux1method,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.aux2method,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.ampsensitivity,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.lowpass,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.highpass,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.notch,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.autoclipadd,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.baseline,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.offstart,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.offstop,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.reject,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.rejstart,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.rejstop,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.rejmin,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.rejmax,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.trigtype,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.trigval,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.trigchnl,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.trigmask,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.trigisi,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.trigmin,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.trigmax,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.trigdir,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.autoscale,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.n2,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.dir,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.dispmin,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.dispmax,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.xmin,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.xmax,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.automin,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.automax,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.zmin,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.zmax,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.lowcut,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.highcut,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.common,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.savemode,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.manmode,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.ref,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.rectify,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.displayxmin,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.displayxmax,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.phase,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.screen,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.calmode,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.calmethod,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.calupdate,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.calbaseline,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.calsweeps,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.calattenuator,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.calpulsevolt,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.calpulsestart,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.calpulsestop,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.calfreq,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.taskfile,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.seqfile,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.spectmethod,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.spectscaling,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.spectwindow,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.spectwinlength,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.spectorder,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.notchfilter,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.headgain,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.additionalfiles,'int'); 
fwrite(fid,h.unused,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.fspstopmethod,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.fspstopmode,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.fspfvalue,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.fsppoint,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.fspblocksize,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.fspp1,'ushort'); 
fwrite(fid,h.fspp2,'ushort'); 
fwrite(fid,h.fspalpha,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.fspnoise,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.fspv1,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.montage,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.eventfile,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.fratio,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.minor_rev,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.eegupdate,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.compressed,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.xscale,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.yscale,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.xsize,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.ysize,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.acmode,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.commonchnl,'uchar'); 
fwrite(fid,h.xtics,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.xrange,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.ytics,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.yrange,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.xscalevalue,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.xscaleinterval,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.yscalevalue,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.yscaleinterval,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.scaletoolx1,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.scaletooly1,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.scaletoolx2,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.scaletooly2,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.port,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.numsamples,'ulong'); 
fwrite(fid,h.filterflag,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.lowcutoff,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.lowpoles,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.highcutoff,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.highpoles,'short'); 
fwrite(fid,h.filtertype,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.filterdomain,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.snrflag,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.coherenceflag,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.continuoustype,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.eventtablepos,'long'); 
fwrite(fid,h.continuousseconds,'float'); 
fwrite(fid,h.channeloffset,'long'); 
fwrite(fid,h.autocorrectflag,'char'); 
fwrite(fid,h.dcthreshold,'uchar');  % = 383H 

% ELECT.DESCRIPTIONS : 75*n.channels bytes. 
% Starts with 384h, finishes with (899+75*nchannels)dec 
% 10 channels: 671h   % 12 channels: 707h 
% 24 channels: A8Bh   % 32 channels: CE3h 
% 64 channels: 1643h  % 128 channels: 2903h 

for n = 1:h.nchannels 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).lab,'char'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).reference,'char'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).skip,'char'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).reject,'char'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).display,'char'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).bad,'char'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).n,'ushort'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).avg_reference,'char'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).clipadd,'char'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).x_coord,'float'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).y_coord,'float'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).veog_wt,'float'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).veog_std,'float'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).snr,'float'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).heog_wt,'float'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).heog_std,'float'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).baseline,'short'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).filtered,'char'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).fsp,'char'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).aux1_wt,'float'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).aux1_std,'float'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).senstivity,'float'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).gain,'char'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).hipass,'char'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).lopass,'char'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).page,'uchar'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).size,'uchar'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).impedance,'uchar'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).physicalchnl,'uchar'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).rectify,'char'); 
    fwrite(fid,e(n).calib,'float'); 
end 

% finding if 32-bits of 16-bits file 
% ---------------------------------- 
begdata = ftell(fid); 
enddata = h.eventtablepos;   % after data 
if strcmpi(WriteOptions.dataformat, 'int16') 
     nums    = (enddata-begdata)/h.nchannels/2; 
else nums    = (enddata-begdata)/h.nchannels/4; 
end; 

% number of sample to write 
% ------------------------- 
if ~isempty(WriteOptions.sample1) 
   WriteOptions.t1      = WriteOptions.sample1/h.rate; 
else 
   WriteOptions.sample1 = WriteOptions.t1*h.rate; 
end; 
if strcmpi(WriteOptions.dataformat, 'int16') 
     startpos = WriteOptions.t1*h.rate*2*h.nchannels; 
else startpos = WriteOptions.t1*h.rate*4*h.nchannels; 
end; 
if isempty(WriteOptions.ldnsamples) 
     if ~isempty(WriteOptions.lddur) 
          WriteOptions.ldnsamples = round(WriteOptions.lddur*h.rate); 
     else WriteOptions.ldnsamples = nums; 
     end; 
end; 

% scaling data from microvolts 
% ---------------------------- 
if strcmpi(WriteOptions.scale, 'on') 
    disp('Scaling data .....') 
    for i=1:h.nchannels 
       bas=e(i).baseline; 
       sen=e(i).senstivity; 
       cal=e(i).calib; 
       mf=sen*(cal/204.8); 
       dat(i,:)=(dat(i,:)/mf)+bas; 
   end 
end 

 

% write data 
% ---------- 
disp('Writing data .....') 
if type == 'cnt' 
    channel_off = h.channeloffset/2; 
  
      fseek(fid, startpos, 0); 
          if channel_off <= 1 
          for temploop =1:WriteOptions.ldnsamples; 
              fwrite(fid, dat(1:h.nchannels, temploop),
WriteOptions.dataformat)'; 
          end; 
          else 
          for temploop =1:h.nchannels; 
              fwrite(fid, dat(temploop, 1:channel_off),
WriteOptions.dataformat)'; 
          end; 
          
                  counter = 1;  
                  while counter*channel_off < WriteOptions.ldnsamples 

              for temploop =1:h.nchannels; 
                fwrite(fid, dat(temploop,
counter*channel_off+1:counter*channel_off+channel_off),
WriteOptions.dataformat)';

              end; 
              counter = counter + 1; 
                  end; 
          end;  
      
      % write event table 
      % ----------------- 
      frewind(fid); 
      fseek(fid,h.eventtablepos,'bof'); 

      disp('Writing Event Table...') 
      fwrite(fid,eT.teeg,'uchar'); 
      fwrite(fid,eT.size,'ulong'); 
      fwrite(fid,eT.offset,'ulong'); 

      if eT.teeg==2 
          nevents=eT.size/sizeEvent2; 
      elseif eT.teeg==1 
          nevents=eT.size/sizeEvent1; 
      else 
          disp('No !!! teeg <> 2 and teeg <> 1'); 
          ev2 = []; 
      end     
  
     %%%% to change offset in points back to bytes 
     if ~isempty(ev2) 
          ev2p=ev2; 
          ioff=900+(h.nchannels*75); %% initial offset : header +
electordes desc 
          for i=1:nevents 
              ev2p(i).offset=((ev2p(i).offset +
WriteOptions.sample1)*2*h.nchannels) +ioff; %% 2 short int end 
          end     
          ev2 = ev2p; 
     end; 

     if eT.teeg==2 
          nevents=eT.size/sizeEvent2; 
          for i=1:nevents 
              ev2(i).stimtype      =
fwrite(fid,ev2(i).stimtype,'ushort'); 
              ev2(i).keyboard      = fwrite(fid,ev2(i).keyboard,'char');

              ev2(i).keypad_accept =
fwrite(fid,ev2(i).keypad_accept,'char'); 
              ev2(i).offset        = fwrite(fid,ev2(i).offset,'long'); 
              ev2(i).type          = fwrite(fid,ev2(i).type,'short'); 
              ev2(i).code          = fwrite(fid,ev2(i).code,'short'); 
              ev2(i).latency       = fwrite(fid,ev2(i).latency,'float');

              ev2(i).epochevent    =
fwrite(fid,ev2(i).epochevent,'char'); 
              ev2(i).accept        = fwrite(fid,ev2(i).accept,'char'); 
              ev2(i).accuracy      = fwrite(fid,ev2(i).accuracy,'char');

          end     
      elseif eT.teeg==1 
          nevents=eT.size/sizeEvent1; 
          for i=1:nevents 
              ev2(i).stimtype      =
fwrite(fid,ev2(i).stimtype,'ushort'); 
              ev2(i).keyboard      = fwrite(fid,ev2(i).keyboard,'char');

              ev2(i).keypad_accept =
fwrite(fid,ev2(i).keypad_accept,'char'); 
              ev2(i).offset        = fwrite(fid,ev2(i).offset,'long'); 
          end; 
      else 
          disp('No !!! teeg <> 2 and teeg <> 1'); 
          ev2 = []; 
      end     
end 

if size(endtag,1)>1 
    fwrite(fid,endtag); 
else 
    fwrite(fid,t,'char'); 
end 

fclose(fid); 
disp(['Finished writing file ' filename ' ...']) 





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