[Mne_analysis] channels types

[Alexandre Gramfort]

Hi Burkhard,

yes we removed it as it seemed like a bug. In your experience it helps
with MEG or EEG data?

Best,
Alex

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Burkhard Maess <maess at cbs.mpg.de> wrote:
> Dear MNE experts,
>
> it seems that the channel type 'ecg' was removed from the list of supported channel types for the ICA.
> Is this intended or an accident? Channel types 'eeg' and 'eog' are still supported. Here is the error message from a call of the ica.py function with data from MEG channels and the ECG channel.
> thank you very much in advance for your help and best wishes,
> Burkhard
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/nobackup/nigeria1/facialproc_task1/py/ica.py", line 93, in <module>
>     main(sys.argv)
>   File "/nobackup/nigeria1/facialproc_task1/py/ica.py", line 71, in main
>     ica.fit(rawdata, picks = picks,flat = flat)
>   File "<string>", line 2, in fit
>   File "/scr/eber4/anthony/mne-python.mne-tools.github/mne/utils.py", line 728, in verbose
>     return function(*args, **kwargs)
>   File "/scr/eber4/anthony/mne-python.mne-tools.github/mne/preprocessing/ica.py", line 387, in fit
>     _check_for_unsupported_ica_channels(picks, inst.info)
>   File "/scr/eber4/anthony/mne-python.mne-tools.github/mne/preprocessing/ica.py", line 115, in _check_for_unsupported_ica_channels
>     .format(types, chs))
> ValueError: Invalid channel type(s) passed for ICA.
> Only the following channels are supported ['mag', 'grad', 'eeg', 'seeg', 'ecog', 'hbo', 'hbr', 'eog']
> Following types were passed ['ecg', 'grad', 'mag']
>
>
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