[Eeglablist] running ICA a second time

[Arnaud Delorme]

Dear Veerle,

you can run ICA twice in a row and use the first ICA to detect bad portion of data or bad channels (because it is often easier to detect these when looking at ICA components). After you have removed bad portion of data or bad channels, you may rerun ICA.

But you should not remove ICA components, then rerun ICA (the data dimension would be reduced and this will force ICA to run PCA first - assuming it is able to automatically detect the dimension reduction). In other words, do not do it.

Thanks,

Arno

On 19 Feb 2013, at 01:36, Veerle ROSS wrote:

> Hi all
> For a current study we are applying ICA. Because our lab was not free of noise we wanted to run ICA 2 times and we hope to obtain cleaner components the second time.
> After searching the internet and the literature we are still not sure what the limits of such a second ICA run are.
> Therefore we were wondering:
> 1.       Is it even possible to indicate ICA components in both the first and second ICA
> a.       We read that you can use the PCA option for this to reduce the dimensions
> b.      However why can’t we use ICA the second time?
> c.       Other sites mention that you shouldn’t indicate components in the first ICA
> 2.       If we run ICA 2 times
> a.       Should we only remove the noise the first time?
> b.      Or should we also already indicated components such as blinks, bad channels, etc.
> Thanks in advance.
> Regards, Veerle Ross
>  
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