[Mne_analysis] 4D/BTi channel names vs labels

[Bear, Joshua]

Hi MNE folks, 

I’ve run into a problem trying to import one of my subject recordings. It appears that the header labels do not match the config channels. This is the first subject I’ve seen this error in.

I used the private functions mne.io.bti.bti._read_bti_header_pdf(raw_file) and mne.io.bti.bti._read_config(config_file). It looks like a handful of the channels are missing from the pdf (header). The error states “channels found are not described in config”, but it looks like the check is just for equality of channel numbers rather than directional. Intuitively, it seems like we should be able to import the data from the pdf itself even if it doesn’t have all of the system channels. Would it make sense to change the equality check to just make sure that all header channels exist in the config rather than vice versa? Or might that create other problems down the road? 

Error message below.

Thank you,
Josh




>>> raw = mne.io.read_raw_bti(raw_file)
Reading 4D PDF file /Users/joshbear/clinical/meg/data/E-0181/EPILEPSY24/03%14%18 at 12:46/1/c,rfhp0.1Hz...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 2, in read_raw_bti
  File "/Users/joshbear/bin/anaconda3/envs/mne/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mne/utils.py", line 952, in verbose
    return function(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/joshbear/bin/anaconda3/envs/mne/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mne/io/bti/bti.py", line 1407, in read_raw_bti
    eog_ch=eog_ch, preload=preload, verbose=verbose)
  File "<string>", line 2, in __init__
  File "/Users/joshbear/bin/anaconda3/envs/mne/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mne/utils.py", line 952, in verbose
    return function(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/joshbear/bin/anaconda3/envs/mne/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mne/io/bti/bti.py", line 1040, in __init__
    sort_by_ch_name=sort_by_ch_name, eog_ch=eog_ch)
  File "/Users/joshbear/bin/anaconda3/envs/mne/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mne/io/bti/bti.py", line 1139, in _get_bti_info
    pdf_fname, config_fname, sort_by_ch_name=sort_by_ch_name)
  File "/Users/joshbear/bin/anaconda3/envs/mne/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mne/io/bti/bti.py", line 921, in _read_bti_header
    raise RuntimeError('Could not match raw data channels with'
RuntimeError: Could not match raw data channels with config channels. Some of the channels found are not described in config.
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