% pop_importeyetracker() - import and synchronize simultaneously recorded % eye tracking data and store it as additional data channels in % the EEG structure. Loads the MATLAB copy of the raw ET data % generated by pop_parsesmi() or pop_parseeyelink(). % Synchronizes ET and EEG based on common events present in both % recordings. The eye tracking data will be resampled/linearly % interpolated to match the sampling frequency of the EEG. % If available, eye movement events (blink/saccade/fixation % detected online) can be imported from the ET raw data (for % Eyelink only). % % Usage: % >> EEG = pop_importeyetracker(EEG, matFileToLoad, startEndEvent, ... % importColumns, newLabels, importEyeEvents, doRegression, ... % filterEyetrack, plotFig) % % Inputs: % EEG - EEG dataset (continuous data) % for which there is a parallel ET recording % matFileToLoad - file path to eyetracker mat-file % generated by function parsesmi or parseeyelink % startEndEvent - event codes shared in the % EEG and ET recording for synchronization. A vector % with two numerical values is expected: % [startevent, endevent], e.g. [102 202] % importColumns - array of indices of eyetracker columns to % import, e.g., [3 5 7] % newLabels - of of length(importColumns) which % containts the channel labels of the newly % imported ET data columns, % e.g. {'gaze_x', 'gaze_y', 'pupilsize'} % importEyeEvents - [0|1] set TRUE if you want to import % eye movement events (e.g. saccades) that were % detected online by the ET recording software % (works for Eyelink only). Imported events will be % stored in the EEG.events structure. % doRegression - [0|1] % FALSE: interpolate data only based on the latency of % the start-event and end-event % TRUE: estimate latency of start-event and end-event % based on linear regression using all events that are % shared by the EEG and ET recording. For GUI use, the % default setting for doRegression is TRUE. % filterEyetrack - [0|1] {default: 0} % FALSE: resample the eye tracking data to the sampling % frequency of the EEG (using linear interpolation), % but do not apply any filters to the eye tracking data % TRUE: filter the eye tracking data at the Nyquist % frequency to prevent aliasing/image artifacts that % may result from downsampling or upsampling the ET % data to the sampling frequency of the EEG. This % function is NOT YET IMPLEMENTED so the setting has no % effect at the moment. % % plotFig - [0|1] set TRUE to plot figure showing the % quality of synchronisation (recommended) % % searchRadius - radius (in samples) around EEG events to search for % matching (shared) events of the same type in the ET. % This value is important to identify instances of % shared events that were transmitted between the % startEvent and endEvent. % The algorithm will search within plusminus % 'searchRadius' samples around each EEG event for an % ET event of the same type (e.g. '123'). % Unless you have trouble with synchronization, or use % a very low (e.g. 100 Hz) or very high (e.g. 1000 Hz) % sampling rate for the EEG, we recommend sticking to % the default value of 4. % However, it may be a good idea to increase the % searchRadius in case of very high sampling rates % (e.g. 2000 Hz) or in the case of errors that can happen % if multiple events of the same type (e.g. '123') were % send in immediate succession (that is, less than % 2*searchRadius+1 samples apart) during the experiment. % [DEFAULT: 4 samples] % % % Outputs: % EEG - EEG dataset (with synchronized eye tracking data) % % See also: % pop_parsesmi, pop_parseeyelink, pop_parsetobii, synchronize % % Example: An call of pop_importeyetracker() might look like this: % >> EEG = pop_importeyetracker(EEG,'C:\\eyedata.mat',[103 203],[3 7],... % {'Gaze_x' 'Pupil_Dia_(mm)'},0,1,0,5,1) % % Explanation: load the parsed ET data stored in "eyedata.mat" that was % generated by pop_parsesmi, pop_parseeyelink, or pop_parsetobii. Use the % first event of type "103" and the last event of type "203" as the startEvent % and endEvent for synchronization, respectively. Import the third and % seventh numerical data column from the ET raw data. These columns contain % the horizontal gaze position and pupil diameter and are named accordingly. % Do not import eye movement events from the raw data. Do a linear % regression on all shared events to optimize the latency estimation for % the startevent and endevent. Do not filter the eye tracking data. % Plot a figure that informs about the precision of synchronization. Set % the searchRadius to identify matching triggers to 5 samples. % % Author: ur & od % 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 [EEG, com] = pop_importeyetracker(EEG,matFileToLoad,startEndEvent,importColumns,channelLabels,importEyeEvents,doRegression,filterEyetrack,plotFig,searchRadius) %% display help if no arguments if nargin < 1 help(mfilename); return; end %% initialize history command string com = ''; %% test whether a continuous EEG dataset is already loaded if isempty(EEG.data) warndlg2('The corresponding EEG file must be loaded first to synchronize it with eye tracking data!',[mfilename '(): Dataset is empty!']) return elseif size(EEG.data,3) > 1 % data is epoched warndlg2('For synchronization with eye tracking data, the EEG must be continuous (not yet epoched)!',[mfilename '(): Dataset is epoched!']) return end %% look for boundary events in EEG data ixBnd = strcmp('boundary',{EEG.event.type}); if ixBnd if isfield(EEG.event,'duration') && any( [EEG.event( ixBnd ).duration] > 1) warndlg2(sprintf('You have event(s) of type ''boundary'' that represent removed samples (duration > 1).\n This will cause problems if those boundaries are in the synchronization range.'),[mfilename '(): Boundaries in Continuous Data']) else warndlg2(sprintf('You have event(s) of type ''boundary'' without duration information. Those might represent removed samples (duration > 1)\n and will cause problems if they in the synchronization range.'),[mfilename '(): Boundaries in Continuous Data']) end end %% display second GUI dialog (set synch parameters)? popDialog2 = false; try %% load parsed ET data if ~exist('matFileToLoad','var') % if matFileToLoad is not provided, pop up dialogue matFileToLoad = dlg_loadeyetracker(mfilename); end; %% load parsed ET structure with data and information if exist(matFileToLoad,'file') fprintf('\n%s(): Loading %s...',mfilename,matFileToLoad) ET = load(matFileToLoad); else error('\n%s: Did not find a file named %s. Please check filepath or filename.',mfilename,matFileToLoad); end %% are ET events (triggers or messages containing keyword) present in ET.event? if ~isfield(ET,'event') ET.event = []; end if isempty(ET.event) fprintf('\n%s(): Found no trigger/event information in your parsed eye tracking data (ET.event)!\n',mfilename) fprintf('\nSee the help of the pop_parse >your Eyetracker< function and read the plugin description.\n') return end %% are eye movement events in the data (detected online by ET system)? [Eyelink only] hasEyeEvents = isfield(ET,'eyeevent'); if ~exist('importEyeEvents','var') importEyeEvents = 0; end if ~hasEyeEvents && importEyeEvents fprintf('%s(): Found no eye movement events (blinks/saccades/fixations) in the raw data!',mfilename) end %% retrieve EEG trigger from EEG.event % check EEG.event.type for triggers present in the EEG recording % sometimes EEG triggers are represented as a string ("S 123") rather than % an integer value [123], e.g. for data recorded with BrainProducts amplifiers if any(cellfun(@isstr,{EEG.event(:).type})) % strings in EEG.event.type % find consecutive digits in event codes, e.g. 'S 123', 'R234', tmp = regexp({EEG.event.type},'\d+','match')'; % find events without any numerical value, e.g. 'Start', 'Boundary' noTrigValues = find(cellfun(@isempty,tmp(:))); eegEvents(:,2) = [EEG.event.latency]'; % clear empty strings and their latencies tmp(noTrigValues) = []; eegEvents(noTrigValues,:) = []; eegEvents(:,1) = str2double([tmp{:}]'); clear tmp noTrigValues else % no strings in EEG.event.type eegEvents(:,1) = [EEG.event.type]'; eegEvents(:,2) = [EEG.event.latency]'; end % eegEvents: [type, latency, latencyInSyncRange] %% find events shared by EEG and eye tracker eegTypes = unique(eegEvents(:,1)); etTypes = unique(ET.event(:,2)); sharedTypes = intersect(eegTypes,etTypes); if isempty(sharedTypes) fprintf('\n%s(): There are no shared events that occur both in the EEG and the eye track!\n',mfilename) return end %% prepare and pop dialogue % - to select start-event and end-event for synchronization % - to specify which ET columns to import % - to define names (channel labels) of newly imported ET channels if exist('startEndEvent','var') [syncTypesPresent,selectInPullDown] = ismember(startEndEvent,sharedTypes); if any(~syncTypesPresent) error('\n%s(): Did not find events of the specified type [%s] in both ET and EEG data!\nPlease check your raw data.',mfilename,num2str(startEndEvent(~syncTypesPresent))); end else selectInPullDown = [1 1]; % default behaviour in pulldown menu popDialog2 = true; end nrColumns = size(ET.data,2); if ~exist('importColumns','var') importColumns = 1:nrColumns; popDialog2 = true; end if ~exist('channelLabels','var') channelLabels = ET.colheader(importColumns); end; if ~exist('doRegression','var') doRegression = true; end if ~exist('plotFig','var') popDialog2 = true; end if ~exist('searchRadius','var') searchRadius = 4; % default search radius is 4 samples around EEG trigger end if popDialog2 % display the number a specific event type in the ET and EEG data nrEeg = hist(eegEvents(:,1),eegTypes); nrEeg = nrEeg(find(nrEeg)); % protect against hist() behaviour for 1 category nrEeg = nrEeg(ismember(eegTypes, sharedTypes)); nrEt = hist(ET.event(:,2),etTypes); nrEt = nrEt(find(nrEt)); % protect against hist() behaviour for 1 category nrEt = nrEt(ismember(etTypes, sharedTypes)); % for GUI dialogue, display example data from each ET data column % For this, take first non-zero element of each data column. % Otherwise zero. [dummy,dummy,exampleData] = arrayfun(@(x) find(ET.data(:,x),1),1:nrColumns,'UniformOutput',false); exampleData(cellfun(@(x) isempty(x),exampleData)) = {0}; % pop window to get user input [startEndEvent,importColumns,channelLabels,importEyeEvents,plotFig] = ... dlg_syncsettings(mfilename, sharedTypes, nrEeg, nrEt, selectInPullDown, nrColumns, importColumns, channelLabels, exampleData, hasEyeEvents, importEyeEvents); clear nrEeg nr* Et dummy end % default for GUI use: set filterEyetrack to false (still experimental) if ~exist('filterEyetrack','var') filterEyetrack = false; end %% synchronize ET and EEG based on start-event and end-event fprintf('\n%s(): Synchronizing EEG and eye tracking data...',mfilename); [ET,eegEvents,syncErrorTable] = synchronize(ET, startEndEvent, eegEvents, EEG.srate, EEG.pnts, doRegression, filterEyetrack, plotFig, searchRadius); %% store info about sync quality with dataset (EEG.etc) EEG.etc.eyetracker_syncquality = syncErrorTable; %% add ET data and new channel labels to EEG structure % test for illegal characters in channel names incompatible with EEGLAB changedName = false; for n = 1:length(channelLabels) if strfind(channelLabels{n},' ') | strfind(channelLabels{n},'[') | strfind(channelLabels{n},']') % spaces, brackets changedName = true; end channelLabels(n) = strrep(channelLabels(n),' ','-'); % causes various problems % BUGFIX 09-2015: use to be replaced with '_' channelLabels(n) = strrep(channelLabels(n),'_','-'); % causes problem with eeg_decodechans() % BUGFIX 09-2015: use to be replaced with '_' channelLabels(n) = strrep(channelLabels(n),']',')'); % causes problem with eeg_decodechans() channelLabels(n) = strrep(channelLabels(n),'[','('); % causes problem with eeg_decodechans() end if changedName fprintf('\n%s(): Replaced characters in ET channel names for compatibility with EEGLAB\n',mfilename) end for col=1:length(importColumns) EEG.chanlocs(EEG.nbchan +col).labels = channelLabels{col}; EEG.chanlocs(EEG.nbchan +col).ref = ''; EEG.chanlocs(EEG.nbchan +col).type = 'EYE'; end % add new ET channels if ~isempty(ET.syncdata) sampleFirstEvent = eegEvents(1,2); sampleLastEvent = eegEvents(end,2); % set all ET data outside the synchronized range to zero EEG.data = [EEG.data; zeros(length(importColumns),EEG.pnts)]; EEG.data(EEG.nbchan+1:end, sampleFirstEvent:sampleLastEvent) = ET.syncdata(:,importColumns)'; EEG.nbchan = size(EEG.data,1); end %% import eye movement events from raw data (Eyelink only) if hasEyeEvents && importEyeEvents fprintf('\n%s(): Importing eye movement events from eyetracker...',mfilename); eventTypes = fieldnames(ET.eyeevent)'; importedEyeTypes = {}; n_imported = []; % loop tru event types (saccades,fixations,blinks) for evtt = 1:length(eventTypes) eventType = eventTypes{evtt}; eyeCodes = unique(ET.eyeevent.(eventType).eye); % loop tru eyes for thisEye = 1:length(eyeCodes) % get index for left/right eye events ix_thisEye = strcmp(eyeCodes(thisEye),cellstr(ET.eyeevent.(eventType).eye)); eyefieldnames = ET.eyeevent.(eventType).colheader; eyeType = [eyeCodes(thisEye) '_' eventType(1:end-1)]; % add eye events to EEG.event EEG = addevents(EEG,ET.eyeevent.(eventType).data(ix_thisEye,:),eyefieldnames,eyeType); % remember which/how many events were imported importedEyeTypes = [importedEyeTypes; cellstr(eyeType)]; n_imported = [n_imported; length(ix_thisEye)]; end end fprintf('\nThe following eye movement event types were imported:\n%s\n',vararg2str(importedEyeTypes)) for j = 1:length(importedEyeTypes) fprintf('\n %i events of type %s:',n_imported(j),importedEyeTypes{j}); end fprintf('\n'); clear importedEyeTypes end EEG = eeg_checkset(EEG,'eventconsistency'); %% store infos about 'other' ET message lines in the EEG structure % other messages are ET messages that are not 'eyeevents' % (see above) and not special keyword-messages (used for % synchronization), but which may contain some aspects of the % experimental design if isfield(ET,'othermessages') EEG.etc.eyetracker_othermessages = ET.othermessages; fprintf('\nImporting infos about other eyetracking messages into EEG.etc\n'); end catch err if (strcmp(err.identifier,'MATLAB:unassignedOutputs')) % disp('User decided to cancel the selection of input.') return else rethrow(err); end end %% return string for command history allArgs = vararg2str({matFileToLoad, startEndEvent, importColumns, channelLabels, importEyeEvents, doRegression, filterEyetrack, plotFig, searchRadius}); com = sprintf('EEG = %s(EEG,%s)',mfilename,allArgs); fprintf('\nSynchronization completed.\n')