Modifying data in-place

It is often necessary to modify data once you have loaded it into memory. Common examples of this are signal processing, feature extraction, and data cleaning. Some functionality is pre-built into MNE-python, though it is also possible to apply an arbitrary function to the data.

import mne
import os.path as op
import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

Load an example dataset, the preload flag loads the data into memory now

data_path = op.join(mne.datasets.sample.data_path(), 'MEG',
                    'sample', 'sample_audvis_raw.fif')
raw = mne.io.read_raw_fif(data_path, preload=True)
raw = raw.crop(0, 10)
print(raw)

Out:

<Raw  |  sample_audvis_raw.fif, n_channels x n_times : 376 x 6007 (10.0 sec), ~20.9 MB, data loaded>

Signal processing

Most MNE objects have in-built methods for filtering:

filt_bands = [(1, 3), (3, 10), (10, 20), (20, 60)]
f, (ax, ax2) = plt.subplots(2, 1, figsize=(15, 10))
data, times = raw[0]
_ = ax.plot(data[0])
for fmin, fmax in filt_bands:
    raw_filt = raw.copy()
    raw_filt.filter(fmin, fmax, fir_design='firwin')
    _ = ax2.plot(raw_filt[0][0][0])
ax2.legend(filt_bands)
ax.set_title('Raw data')
ax2.set_title('Band-pass filtered data')
../_images/sphx_glr_plot_modifying_data_inplace_001.png

In addition, there are functions for applying the Hilbert transform, which is useful to calculate phase / amplitude of your signal.

# Filter signal with a fairly steep filter, then take hilbert transform

raw_band = raw.copy()
raw_band.filter(12, 18, l_trans_bandwidth=2., h_trans_bandwidth=2.,
                fir_design='firwin')
raw_hilb = raw_band.copy()
hilb_picks = mne.pick_types(raw_band.info, meg=False, eeg=True)
raw_hilb.apply_hilbert(hilb_picks)
print(raw_hilb[0][0].dtype)

Out:

complex64

Finally, it is possible to apply arbitrary functions to your data to do what you want. Here we will use this to take the amplitude and phase of the hilbert transformed data.

Note

You can also use amplitude=True in the call to mne.io.Raw.apply_hilbert() to do this automatically.

# Take the amplitude and phase
raw_amp = raw_hilb.copy()
raw_amp.apply_function(np.abs, hilb_picks)
raw_phase = raw_hilb.copy()
raw_phase.apply_function(np.angle, hilb_picks)

f, (a1, a2) = plt.subplots(2, 1, figsize=(15, 10))
a1.plot(raw_band[hilb_picks[0]][0][0].real)
a1.plot(raw_amp[hilb_picks[0]][0][0].real)
a2.plot(raw_phase[hilb_picks[0]][0][0].real)
a1.set_title('Amplitude of frequency band')
a2.set_title('Phase of frequency band')
../_images/sphx_glr_plot_modifying_data_inplace_002.png

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 2.532 seconds)

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