mne.Annotations¶

class mne.Annotations(onset, duration, description, orig_time=None)[source]¶

Annotation object for annotating segments of raw data.

Note

To convert events to Annotations, use annotations_from_events. To convert existing Annotations to events, use events_from_annotations.

Parameters

onsetarray of float, shape (n_annotations,): The starting time of annotations in seconds after orig_time.
durationarray of float, shape (n_annotations,) | float: Durations of the annotations in seconds. If a float, all the annotations are given the same duration.
descriptionarray of str, shape (n_annotations,) | str: Array of strings containing description for each annotation. If a string, all the annotations are given the same description. To reject epochs, use description starting with keyword ‘bad’. See example above.
orig_timefloat | str | datetime | tuple of int | None: A POSIX Timestamp, datetime or a tuple containing the timestamp as the first element and microseconds as the second element. Determines the starting time of annotation acquisition. If None (default), starting time is determined from beginning of raw data acquisition. In general, raw.info['meas_date'] (or None) can be used for syncing the annotations with raw data if their acquisiton is started at the same time. If it is a string, it should conform to the ISO8601 format. More precisely to this ‘%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f’ particular case of the ISO8601 format where the delimiter between date and time is ‘ ‘.

See also

mne.annotations_from_events
mne.events_from_annotations

Notes

Annotations are added to instance of mne.io.Raw as the attribute raw.annotations.

To reject bad epochs using annotations, use annotation description starting with ‘bad’ keyword. The epochs with overlapping bad segments are then rejected automatically by default.

To remove epochs with blinks you can do:

>>> eog_events = mne.preprocessing.find_eog_events(raw)  
>>> n_blinks = len(eog_events)  
>>> onset = eog_events[:, 0] / raw.info['sfreq'] - 0.25  
>>> duration = np.repeat(0.5, n_blinks)  
>>> description = ['bad blink'] * n_blinks  
>>> annotations = mne.Annotations(onset, duration, description)  
>>> raw.set_annotations(annotations)  
>>> epochs = mne.Epochs(raw, events, event_id, tmin, tmax)  

orig_time

If orig_time is None, the annotations are synced to the start of the data (0 seconds). Otherwise the annotations are synced to sample 0 and raw.first_samp is taken into account the same way as with events.

When setting annotations, the following alignments between raw.info['meas_date'] and annotation.orig_time take place:

----------- meas_date=XX, orig_time=YY -----------------------------

     |              +------------------+
     |______________|     RAW          |
     |              |                  |
     |              +------------------+
 meas_date      first_samp
     .
     .         |         +------+
     .         |_________| ANOT |
     .         |         |      |
     .         |         +------+
     .     orig_time   onset[0]
     .
     |                   +------+
     |___________________|      |
     |                   |      |
     |                   +------+
 orig_time            onset[0]'

----------- meas_date=XX, orig_time=None ---------------------------

     |              +------------------+
     |______________|     RAW          |
     |              |                  |
     |              +------------------+
     .              N         +------+
     .              o_________| ANOT |
     .              n         |      |
     .              e         +------+
     .
     |                        +------+
     |________________________|      |
     |                        |      |
     |                        +------+
 orig_time                 onset[0]'

----------- meas_date=None, orig_time=YY ---------------------------

     N              +------------------+
     o______________|     RAW          |
     n              |                  |
     e              +------------------+
               |         +------+
               |_________| ANOT |
               |         |      |
               |         +------+

            [[[ CRASH ]]]

----------- meas_date=None, orig_time=None -------------------------

     N              +------------------+
     o______________|     RAW          |
     n              |                  |
     e              +------------------+
     .              N         +------+
     .              o_________| ANOT |
     .              n         |      |
     .              e         +------+
     .
     N                        +------+
     o________________________|      |
     n                        |      |
     e                        +------+
 orig_time                 onset[0]'

Attributes

orig_time: The time base of the Annotations.

Methods

`__add__`(other)	Add (concatencate) two Annotation objects.
`__getitem__`(key)	Propagate indexing and slicing to the underlying numpy structure.
`__iter__`()	Iterate over the annotations.
`__len__`()	Return the number of annotations.
`append`(onset, duration, description)	Add an annotated segment.
`copy`()	Return a copy of the Annotations.
`crop`([tmin, tmax, emit_warning, verbose])	Remove all annotation that are outside of [tmin, tmax].
`delete`(idx)	Remove an annotation.
`save`(fname)	Save annotations to FIF, CSV or TXT.

__add__(other)[source]¶: Add (concatencate) two Annotation objects.

__getitem__(key)[source]¶: Propagate indexing and slicing to the underlying numpy structure.

__iter__()[source]¶: Iterate over the annotations.

__len__()[source]¶: Return the number of annotations.

append(onset, duration, description)[source]¶

Add an annotated segment. Operates inplace.

Parameters

onsetfloat | array_like: Annotation time onset from the beginning of the recording in seconds.
durationfloat | array_like: Duration of the annotation in seconds.
descriptionstr | array_like: Description for the annotation. To reject epochs, use description starting with keyword ‘bad’.

Returns

selfmne.Annotations: The modified Annotations object.

Notes

The array-like support for arguments allows this to be used similarly to not only list.append, but also list.extend.

Examples using append:

copy()[source]¶

Return a copy of the Annotations.

Returns

instinstance of Annotations: A copy of the object.

crop(tmin=None, tmax=None, emit_warning=False, verbose=None)[source]¶

Remove all annotation that are outside of [tmin, tmax].

The method operates inplace.

Parameters

tminfloat | datetime | None: Start time of selection in seconds.
tmaxfloat | datetime | None: End time of selection in seconds.
emit_warningbool: Whether to emit warnings when limiting or omitting annotations. Defaults to False.
verbosebool, str, int, or None: If not None, override default verbose level (see mne.verbose() and Logging documentation for more). If used, it should be passed as a keyword-argument only. Defaults to self.verbose.

Returns

selfinstance of Annotations: The cropped Annotations object.

Examples using crop:

delete(idx)[source]¶

Remove an annotation. Operates inplace.

Parameters

idxint | array_like of int: Index of the annotation to remove. Can be array-like to remove multiple indices.

property orig_time¶: The time base of the Annotations.

save(fname)[source]¶

Save annotations to FIF, CSV or TXT.

Typically annotations get saved in the FIF file for raw data (e.g., as raw.annotations), but this offers the possibility to also save them to disk separately in different file formats which are easier to share between packages.

Parameters