[Mne_analysis] mne_make_movie cannot find data set

[Matti Hamalainen]

On Apr 23, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Alexandre Gramfort wrote:

> really nice !
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> I just gave it a try on the mne-sample data and it worked like a charm.
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> Thanks matti for continuing to show me the hidden gems of MNE :)

Number 4 or number 3?

- Matti


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> Alex
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> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Matti Hamalainen
> <msh at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
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>> Jeff,
>> 
>> Briefly,
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>> 1. mne_make_movie can only produce movies from averaged evoked response data
>> 
>> 2. mne_compute_raw_inverse can produce continuous raw data source estimates
>> from a set of labels.
>> 
>> 3. If you have trigger points defined, you can also load raw data to
>> mne_analyze and view source estimates at individual epochs.
>> 
>> 4. If you load the raw data to mne_browse_raw, you can start mne_analyze
>> from there and interactively pick time points to show source estimates
>> corresponding to, e.g., epileptic spikes.
>> 
>> The options have been hardly used in practice because most of the time
>> researchers are interested in calculating, e.g., time-frequency
>> representations, which leads averaging of the transformed epochs in the
>> source space.
>> 
>> - Matti
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>> On Apr 23, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Jeff Eriksen wrote:
>> 
>> Please see below
>> -Jeff
>> 
>> On 4/23/12 10:27 AM, "Alexandre Gramfort" <gramfort at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> I will explore these two suggestions. I do find it odd that apparently
>> 
>> MNE
>> 
>> has no straightforward path to analyze unaveraged data.
>> 
>> 
>> you can generate stc files from raw data with mne_compute_raw_inverse
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>> but you will need to provide labels.
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>> 
>> If I supplied labels, which I understand are somewhat like ROIs, are you
>> sure I would not run into the same problem I did with mne-make-movie? I
>> thought mne-compute-raw-inverse was very similar to mne_make_movie?
>> 
>> 
>> I thought some
>> 
>> people used it for epilepsy analysis?
>> 
>> 
>> People do at the martinos but I don't know how they work.
>> 
>> 
>> Can anyone out there put me in touch with these people please? My current
>> project involves autism and ADHD, but epilepsy application is another one
>> of my interests. All of these involve unaveraged EEG.
>> 
>> 
>> I am perfectly happy to use Matlab at this point (no experience with
>> 
>> Python - is there a version for Macintosh?). I tried initially to use
>> 
>> Matlab to import my EEG data but that was very difficult, even with
>> 
>> help,
>> 
>> and I was encouraged to use mne_edf2fiff instead.
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>> 
>> http://martinos.org/mne/python_tutorial.html
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>> on a mac I recommend you install EPD (free with an academic license)
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>> or EPD free
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>> http://www.enthought.com/products/epd.php
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>> http://www.enthought.com/products/epd_free.php
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>> 
>> then you can you should be able to install MNE following the instructions
>> 
>> at:
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>> https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python/blob/master/README.rst
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>> 
>> then you can adapt the example for your own data.
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>> 
>> hope this helps
>> 
>> 
>> Alex
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>> Matti Hamalainen, Ph.D.
>> Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
>> Massachusetts General Hospital
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>> msh at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
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