% parsesmi() - parse Sensomotoric Instruments (TM) eye tracking % data from an ASCII-converted text-file and save the content as a MATLAB % structure % % Usage: % >> et = parsesmi(inputFile, outputMatFile, triggerKeyword); % % Inputs: % inputFile - path to text file, converted from raw ET recording % outputMatFile - MATLAB (.mat) file to save "et" structure in % % Optional Inputs: % triggerKeyword - keyword contained in special messages used for % synchronization. Text messages can be used as an % alternative method for synchronization with the % EEG/MEG (instead of shared trigger pulses). However, % all messages used for synchronization must contain a % special keyword string (e.g. "MYKEYWORD") which is % followed by the respective integer number (e.g. "123") % which is also send as a trigger pulseto the parallel % electrophysiological recording. % % For more information on the optional input, please read the tutorial of % the toolbox. % % An example use of the function might look like this: % >> ET = parsesmi('/myrawdata/SAMPLES.txt','/myfiles/SAMPLES.mat') % Optional with keyword: % >> ET = parsesmi('/myrawdata/SAMPLES.txt','/myfiles/SAMPLES.mat','MYKEYWORD') % % Outputs: % et - eyetracker structure % % See also: % pop_parsesmi, pop_importeyetracker % % Author: ur % Copyright (C) 2009-2017 Olaf Dimigen & Ulrich Reinacher, HU Berlin % olaf.dimigen@hu-berlin.de % 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 3 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, 51 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA function et = parsesmi(inputFile,outputMatFile,triggerKeyword) if nargin < 2 help(mfilename); return; end; %% feedback fprintf('\n\n%s(): Parsing Sensomotoric Instruments (IView X/RED) raw data. This may take a moment...',mfilename) fprintf('\n-- reading txt...') fid = fopen(inputFile,'r'); if fid == -1 error('\nThe source file ''%s'' was not found.\n',inputFile) end B = fread(fid,'*char')'; fclose(fid); fprintf('\n\tDone.') %% file specifications and comments fprintf('\n-- getting comment lines and column headers...') et.comments = regexp(B,'(##[^\r\n]*\r\n)','match'); %% build column header et.colheader = regexp(B,'Time[^\r\n]*\r\n','match'); % clear 'Type' from header, as this information is not kept et.colheader = strrep(et.colheader,sprintf('Type\t'),''); et.colheader = regexp(et.colheader{:},'[^\t\r\n]*','match'); triggerColIndex = find(strcmp('Trigger',et.colheader)); fprintf('\n\tDone.') %% get data fprintf('\n-- getting data...') dataLines = regexp(B,'(^\d*\tSMP[^\r\n]*)','match','lineanchors')'; % remove 'Type' information => keep only numerical data dataLines = strrep(dataLines,sprintf('SMP\t'),''); % fast conversion from cell of characters to array with blank-pads dataChar = char(dataLines); % sscanf treats numbers that follow directly over linebreaks without % whitespace-characters as one. Therefore you occasionally need an % additional space at the end of the array. dataChar(:,end+1) = char(32); % test once for number of columns nColumns = length(sscanf(dataChar(1,:),'%f')); %sscans string array by !column! for float-numbers, arranges in rows of %nColumns, till end of string (inf). transpose back to column order. et.data = sscanf(dataChar','%f',[nColumns,inf])'; clear dataLines dataChar fprintf('\n\tDone.') %% check for empty columns in data array nColh = length(et.colheader); nDat = size(et.data,2); if nColh ~= nDat column_mismatch = true; else column_mismatch = false; end %% get messages fprintf('\n-- getting messages...') et.messages = regexp(B,'\d*\tMSG[^\r\n]*\r\n','match'); fprintf('\n\tDone.') %% build table with synchronization events for eye tracker % 1: check for messages containing special KEYWORD if exist('triggerKeyword','var') if isempty(triggerKeyword) warning('\n\n%s(): You are using an empty string as the keyword (before the integer event number).',mfilename) end % take care of leading whitespaces as well as missing trailing whitespaces % handle "MYKEYWORD 123" as well as "MYKEYWORD123" test1 = regexp(et.messages,['(\d+)\s+MSG\s+\d+\s+#\sMessage:\s',triggerKeyword,'\s?(\d+)'],'tokens')'; test2 = [test1{:}]'; test3 = cellfun(@str2double,test2,'UniformOutput',false); et.event = cell2mat(test3); if isempty(et.event) warning('\n\n%s(): The keyword string you have provided (''%s'') was not found in any messages of the ET file (%s). Please check your messages and make sure they contain the specified keyword.',... mfilename, triggerKeyword, inputFile) end % 2: check for TTL pulses (in separate data column) elseif ~isempty(triggerColIndex) % parallel port pulses often last several samples, take rising edge of % pulse as trigger latency. Discard samples where zero was send to port et.event = cleantriggers( [et.data(:,1),et.data(:,triggerColIndex)]); % no events found: user feedback else warning('\n%s(): Did not find trigger pulses or special messages that could be used as events for synchronization.',mfilename) if ~exist('triggerKeyword','var') fprintf('\nIf you have sent messages with a special keyword, please provide the keyword when calling this function. See help.') end end clear test* triggerColIndex %% Extract timestamps of *other* messages (not eyeevent, not keyword-messages) % New feature, Jan-2017, OD % Identify messages that begin with 'MSG' (e.g. user-send messages) so that % their timestamps can be later converted into "eeg time" in function % synchronize(). Extracting this information should be helpful for user % who have coded their experimental conditions (etc.) in the form of % (SMI) messages if isfield(et,'messages') & ~isempty(et.messages) % go tru messages in et.messages remove_this_msg = zeros(1,size(et.messages,2)); contains_keyword = []; for m = 1:size(et.messages,2) % does message line start with 'MSG'? --> include contains_msg = ~isempty(strfind(et.messages{m},'MSG')); % does message contain the user-defined keyword (sync message) --> exclude if exist('triggerKeyword','var') contains_keyword = ~isempty(strfind(et.messages{m},triggerKeyword)); end % kick out if ~contains_msg | contains_keyword remove_this_msg(m) = true; end end % now delete messages not starting with 'MSG' (e.g. eyeevents) or containing % keyword since they are already stored elsewhere in the output. Also, this % removes a few strange line-broken message lines that contain only numbers % or only alphabetic chars (related to the calibration model) tmp = et.messages; tmp(:,find(remove_this_msg)) = []; % remove msg marked above if ~isempty(tmp) % now extract numeric timestamp from these remaining msg %timestamps = regexp(tmp,'^-?\D+(\d+)','tokens','once','lineanchors'); timestamps = regexp(tmp,'^(\d+)','tokens','once','lineanchors'); timestamps = [timestamps{:}]'; timestamps = cellfun(@str2double,timestamps,'UniformOutput',false); timestamps = cell2mat(timestamps); % store these messages in structure 'et.othermessages' for j = 1:size(tmp,2) et.othermessages(j).timestamp = timestamps(j); % numeric timestamps et.othermessages(j).msg = tmp{j}; % the msg string end clear tmp test* edfColHeader end else fprintf('\n\n%s(): Did not find any other messages (MSG) lines in the data\n.',mfilename) end %% save fprintf('\n-- saving structure as mat...') save(outputMatFile,'-struct','et') fprintf('\n\tDone.') if column_mismatch % recent IDF converter versions add extra column names in header fprintf('\n\nNote: Number of data column names for numerical data (%i) differed from number of actual data columns (%i).',nColh,nDat); fprintf('\nThis is not necessarily a problem, since some IDF converter versions add extra column names (e.g., \"AUX1\").'); end fprintf('\n\nFinished parsing eye track.\nSaved .mat file to %s.\n',outputMatFile)