mne.SourceEstimate#

class mne.SourceEstimate(data, vertices, tmin, tstep, subject=None, verbose=None)[source]#

Container for surface source estimates.

Parameters

dataarray of shape (n_dipoles, n_times) | tuple, shape (2,)

The data in source space. When it is a single array, the left hemisphere is stored in data[:len(vertices[0])] and the right hemisphere is stored in data[-len(vertices[1]):]. When data is a tuple, it contains two arrays:

“kernel” shape (n_vertices, n_sensors) and
“sens_data” shape (n_sensors, n_times).

In this case, the source space data corresponds to np.dot(kernel, sens_data).

verticeslist of array, shape (2,)

Vertex numbers corresponding to the data. The first element of the list contains vertices of left hemisphere and the second element contains vertices of right hemisphere.

tminscalar

Time point of the first sample in data.

tstepscalar

Time step between successive samples in data.

subjectstr

The FreeSurfer subject name. While not necessary, it is safer to set the subject parameter to avoid analysis errors.

verbosebool | str | int | None

Control verbosity of the logging output. If None, use the default verbosity level. See the logging documentation and mne.verbose() for details. Should only be passed as a keyword argument.

See also

VectorSourceEstimate: A container for vector source estimates.
VolSourceEstimate: A container for volume source estimates.
MixedSourceEstimate: A container for mixed surface + volume source estimates.

Attributes

subjectstr | None: The subject name.
timesarray of shape (n_times,): A timestamp for each sample.
verticeslist of array, shape (2,): The indices of the dipoles in the left and right source space.
dataarray of shape (n_dipoles, n_times): Numpy array of source estimate data.
shapetuple: Shape of the data.

Methods

`__add__`(a)	Add source estimates.
`__div__`(a)	Divide source estimates.
`__mul__`(a)	Multiply source estimates.
`__neg__`()	Negate the source estimate.
`__sub__`(a)	Subtract source estimates.
`apply_baseline`([baseline, verbose])	Baseline correct source estimate data.
`bin`(width[, tstart, tstop, func])	Return a source estimate object with data summarized over time bins.
`center_of_mass`([subject, hemi, ...])	Compute the center of mass of activity.
`copy`()	Return copy of source estimate instance.
`crop`([tmin, tmax, include_tmax])	Restrict SourceEstimate to a time interval.
`estimate_snr`(info, fwd, cov[, verbose])	Compute time-varying SNR in the source space.
`expand`(vertices)	Expand SourceEstimate to include more vertices.
`extract_label_time_course`(labels, src[, ...])	Extract label time courses for lists of labels.
`get_peak`([hemi, tmin, tmax, mode, ...])	Get location and latency of peak amplitude.
`in_label`(label)	Get a source estimate object restricted to a label.
`mean`()	Make a summary stc file with mean over time points.
`plot`([subject, surface, hemi, colormap, ...])	Plot SourceEstimate.
`resample`(sfreq[, npad, window, n_jobs, verbose])	Resample data.
`save`(fname[, ftype, overwrite, verbose])	Save the source estimates to a file.
`sqrt`()	Take the square root.
`sum`()	Make a summary stc file with sum over time points.
`time_as_index`(times[, use_rounding])	Convert time to indices.
`to_data_frame`([index, scalings, ...])	Export data in tabular structure as a pandas DataFrame.
`to_original_src`(src_orig[, subject_orig, ...])	Get a source estimate from morphed source to the original subject.
`transform`(func[, idx, tmin, tmax, copy])	Apply linear transform.
`transform_data`(func[, idx, tmin_idx, tmax_idx])	Get data after a linear (time) transform has been applied.

__add__(a)[source]#: Add source estimates.

__div__(a)[source]#: Divide source estimates.

__mul__(a)[source]#: Multiply source estimates.

__neg__()[source]#: Negate the source estimate.

__sub__(a)[source]#: Subtract source estimates.

apply_baseline(baseline=(None, 0), *, verbose=None)[source]#

Baseline correct source estimate data.

Parameters

baselineNone | tuple of length 2

The time interval to consider as “baseline” when applying baseline correction. If None, do not apply baseline correction. If a tuple (a, b), the interval is between a and b (in seconds), including the endpoints. If a is None, the beginning of the data is used; and if b is None, it is set to the end of the interval. If (None, None), the entire time interval is used.

Note

The baseline (a, b) includes both endpoints, i.e. all timepoints t such that a <= t <= b.

Correction is applied to each source individually in the following way:

Calculate the mean signal of the baseline period.
Subtract this mean from the entire source estimate data.

Note

Baseline correction is appropriate when signal and noise are approximately additive, and the noise level can be estimated from the baseline interval. This can be the case for non-normalized source activities (e.g. signed and unsigned MNE), but it is not the case for normalized estimates (e.g. signal-to-noise ratios, dSPM, sLORETA).

Defaults to (None, 0), i.e. beginning of the the data until time point zero.

verbosebool | str | int | None

Control verbosity of the logging output. If None, use the default verbosity level. See the logging documentation and mne.verbose() for details. Should only be passed as a keyword argument.

Returns

stcinstance of SourceEstimate: The baseline-corrected source estimate object.

Notes

Baseline correction can be done multiple times.

bin(width, tstart=None, tstop=None, func=<function mean>)[source]#

Return a source estimate object with data summarized over time bins.

Time bins of width seconds. This method is intended for visualization only. No filter is applied to the data before binning, making the method inappropriate as a tool for downsampling data.

Parameters

widthscalar: Width of the individual bins in seconds.
tstartscalar | None: Time point where the first bin starts. The default is the first time point of the stc.
tstopscalar | None: Last possible time point contained in a bin (if the last bin would be shorter than width it is dropped). The default is the last time point of the stc.
funccallable(): Function that is applied to summarize the data. Needs to accept a numpy.array as first input and an axis keyword argument.

Returns

stcSourceEstimate | VectorSourceEstimate: The binned source estimate.

center_of_mass(subject=None, hemi=None, restrict_vertices=False, subjects_dir=None, surf='sphere')[source]#

Compute the center of mass of activity.

This function computes the spatial center of mass on the surface as well as the temporal center of mass as in 1.

Note

All activity must occur in a single hemisphere, otherwise an error is raised. The “mass” of each point in space for computing the spatial center of mass is computed by summing across time, and vice-versa for each point in time in computing the temporal center of mass. This is useful for quantifying spatio-temporal cluster locations, especially when combined with mne.vertex_to_mni().

Parameters

subjectstr | None: The subject the stc is defined for.
hemiint, or None: Calculate the center of mass for the left (0) or right (1) hemisphere. If None, one of the hemispheres must be all zeroes, and the center of mass will be calculated for the other hemisphere (useful for getting COM for clusters).
restrict_verticesbool | array of int | instance of SourceSpaces: If True, returned vertex will be one from stc. Otherwise, it could be any vertex from surf. If an array of int, the returned vertex will come from that array. If instance of SourceSpaces (as of 0.13), the returned vertex will be from the given source space. For most accuruate estimates, do not restrict vertices.
subjects_dirpath-like | None: The path to the directory containing the FreeSurfer subjects reconstructions. If None, defaults to the SUBJECTS_DIR environment variable.
surfstr: The surface to use for Euclidean distance center of mass finding. The default here is “sphere”, which finds the center of mass on the spherical surface to help avoid potential issues with cortical folding.

Returns

vertexint: Vertex of the spatial center of mass for the inferred hemisphere, with each vertex weighted by the sum of the stc across time. For a boolean stc, then, this would be weighted purely by the duration each vertex was active.
hemiint: Hemisphere the vertex was taken from.
tfloat: Time of the temporal center of mass (weighted by the sum across source vertices).

See also

mne.Label.center_of_mass
mne.vertex_to_mni

References

1: Eric Larson and Adrian K.C. Lee. The cortical dynamics underlying effective switching of auditory spatial attention. NeuroImage, 64:365–370, 2013. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.09.006.

Examples using center_of_mass:

Extracting time course from source_estimate object

copy()[source]#

Return copy of source estimate instance.

Returns

stcinstance of SourceEstimate: A copy of the source estimate.

Examples using copy:

Compute source power spectral density (PSD) of VectorView and OPM data

Generate a functional label from source estimates

crop(tmin=None, tmax=None, include_tmax=True)[source]#

Restrict SourceEstimate to a time interval.

Parameters

tminfloat | None: The first time point in seconds. If None the first present is used.
tmaxfloat | None: The last time point in seconds. If None the last present is used.
include_tmaxbool: If True (default), include tmax. If False, exclude tmax (similar to how Python indexing typically works).

New in version 0.19.

Returns

stcinstance of SourceEstimate: The cropped source estimate.

Examples using crop:

Permutation t-test on source data with spatio-temporal clustering

Plotting with mne.viz.Brain

Plotting with ``mne.viz.Brain``

property data#: Numpy array of source estimate data.

estimate_snr(info, fwd, cov, verbose=None)[source]#

Compute time-varying SNR in the source space.

This function should only be used with source estimates with units nanoAmperes (i.e., MNE-like solutions, not dSPM or sLORETA). See also 2.

Warning

This function currently only works properly for fixed orientation.

Parameters

infomne.Info: The mne.Info object with information about the sensors and methods of measurement.
fwdinstance of Forward: The forward solution used to create the source estimate.
covinstance of Covariance: The noise covariance used to estimate the resting cortical activations. Should be an evoked covariance, not empty room.
verbosebool | str | int | None: Control verbosity of the logging output. If None, use the default verbosity level. See the logging documentation and mne.verbose() for details. Should only be passed as a keyword argument.

Returns

snr_stcinstance of SourceEstimate: The source estimate with the SNR computed.

Notes

We define the SNR in decibels for each source location at each time point as:

\[{\rm SNR} = 10\log_10[\frac{a^2}{N}\sum_k\frac{b_k^2}{s_k^2}]\]

where \(\\b_k\) is the signal on sensor \(k\) provided by the forward model for a source with unit amplitude, \(a\) is the source amplitude, \(N\) is the number of sensors, and \(s_k^2\) is the noise variance on sensor \(k\).

References

2: Daniel M. Goldenholz, Seppo P. Ahlfors, Matti S. Hämäläinen, Dahlia Sharon, Mamiko Ishitobi, Lucia M. Vaina, and Steven M. Stufflebeam. Mapping the signal-to-noise-ratios of cortical sources in magnetoencephalography and electroencephalography. Human Brain Mapping, 30(4):1077–1086, 2009. doi:10.1002/hbm.20571.

Examples using estimate_snr:

Computing source space SNR

expand(vertices)[source]#

Expand SourceEstimate to include more vertices.

This will add rows to stc.data (zero-filled) and modify stc.vertices to include all vertices in stc.vertices and the input vertices.

Parameters

verticeslist of array: New vertices to add. Can also contain old values.

Returns

stcSourceEstimate | VectorSourceEstimate: The modified stc (note: method operates inplace).

extract_label_time_course(labels, src, mode='auto', allow_empty=False, verbose=None)[source]#

Extract label time courses for lists of labels.

This function will extract one time course for each label. The way the time courses are extracted depends on the mode parameter.

Parameters

labelsLabel | BiHemiLabel | list | tuple | str

If using a surface or mixed source space, this should be the Label’s for which to extract the time course. If working with whole-brain volume source estimates, this must be one of:

a string path to a FreeSurfer atlas for the subject (e.g., their ‘aparc.a2009s+aseg.mgz’) to extract time courses for all volumes in the atlas
a two-element list or tuple, the first element being a path to an atlas, and the second being a list or dict of volume_labels to extract (see mne.setup_volume_source_space() for details).

Changed in version 0.21.0: Support for volume source estimates.

srcinstance of SourceSpaces

The source spaces for the source time courses.

modestr

Extraction mode, see Notes.

allow_emptybool | str

False (default) will emit an error if there are labels that have no vertices in the source estimate. True and 'ignore' will return all-zero time courses for labels that do not have any vertices in the source estimate, and True will emit a warning while and “ignore” will just log a message.

Changed in version 0.21.0: Support for “ignore”.

verbosebool | str | int | None

Control verbosity of the logging output. If None, use the default verbosity level. See the logging documentation and mne.verbose() for details. Should only be passed as a keyword argument.

Returns

label_tcarray | list (or generator) of array, shape (n_labels[, n_orient], n_times): Extracted time course for each label and source estimate.

See also

extract_label_time_course: Extract time courses for multiple STCs.

Notes

Valid values for mode are:

'max'
Maximum value across vertices at each time point within each label.
'mean'
Average across vertices at each time point within each label. Ignores orientation of sources for standard source estimates, which varies across the cortical surface, which can lead to cancellation. Vector source estimates are always in XYZ / RAS orientation, and are thus already geometrically aligned.
'mean_flip'
Finds the dominant direction of source space normal vector orientations within each label, applies a sign-flip to time series at vertices whose orientation is more than 180° different from the dominant direction, and then averages across vertices at each time point within each label.
'pca_flip'
Applies singular value decomposition to the time courses within each label, and uses the first right-singular vector as the representative label time course. This signal is scaled so that its power matches the average (per-vertex) power within the label, and sign-flipped by multiplying by np.sign(u @ flip), where u is the first left-singular vector and flip is the same sign-flip vector used when mode='mean_flip'. This sign-flip ensures that extracting time courses from the same label in similar STCs does not result in 180° direction/phase changes.
'auto' (default)
Uses 'mean_flip' when a standard source estimate is applied, and 'mean' when a vector source estimate is supplied.

New in version 0.21: Support for 'auto', vector, and volume source estimates.

The only modes that work for vector and volume source estimates are 'mean', 'max', and 'auto'.

Examples using extract_label_time_course:

Generate a functional label from source estimates

Extracting the time series of activations in a label

get_peak(hemi=None, tmin=None, tmax=None, mode='abs', vert_as_index=False, time_as_index=False)[source]#

Get location and latency of peak amplitude.

Parameters

hemi{‘lh’, ‘rh’, None}: The hemi to be considered. If None, the entire source space is considered.
tminfloat | None: The minimum point in time to be considered for peak getting.
tmaxfloat | None: The maximum point in time to be considered for peak getting.
mode{‘pos’, ‘neg’, ‘abs’}: How to deal with the sign of the data. If ‘pos’ only positive values will be considered. If ‘neg’ only negative values will be considered. If ‘abs’ absolute values will be considered. Defaults to ‘abs’.
vert_as_indexbool: Whether to return the vertex index (True) instead of of its ID (False, default).
time_as_indexbool: Whether to return the time index (True) instead of the latency (False, default).

Returns

posint: The vertex exhibiting the maximum response, either ID or index.
latencyfloat | int: The time point of the maximum response, either latency in seconds or index.

Examples using get_peak:

The SourceEstimate data structure

Source localization with MNE, dSPM, sLORETA, and eLORETA

The role of dipole orientations in distributed source localization

in_label(label)[source]#

Get a source estimate object restricted to a label.

SourceEstimate contains the time course of activation of all sources inside the label.

Parameters

labelLabel | BiHemiLabel: The label (as created for example by mne.read_label). If the label does not match any sources in the SourceEstimate, a ValueError is raised.

Returns

stcSourceEstimate | VectorSourceEstimate: The source estimate restricted to the given label.

Examples using in_label:

Compute MNE-dSPM inverse solution on single epochs

Extracting time course from source_estimate object

Generate a functional label from source estimates

Extracting the time series of activations in a label

property lh_data#: Left hemisphere data.

property lh_vertno#: Left hemisphere vertno.

mean()[source]#

Make a summary stc file with mean over time points.

Returns

stcSourceEstimate | VectorSourceEstimate: The modified stc.

plot(subject=None, surface='inflated', hemi='lh', colormap='auto', time_label='auto', smoothing_steps=10, transparent=True, alpha=1.0, time_viewer='auto', subjects_dir=None, figure=None, views='auto', colorbar=True, clim='auto', cortex='classic', size=800, background='black', foreground=None, initial_time=None, time_unit='s', backend='auto', spacing='oct6', title=None, show_traces='auto', src=None, volume_options=1.0, view_layout='vertical', add_data_kwargs=None, brain_kwargs=None, verbose=None)[source]#

Plot SourceEstimate.

Parameters

subjectstr | None

The FreeSurfer subject name. If None, stc.subject will be used.

surfacestr

The type of surface (inflated, white etc.).

hemistr

Hemisphere id (ie ‘lh’, ‘rh’, ‘both’, or ‘split’). In the case of ‘both’, both hemispheres are shown in the same window. In the case of ‘split’ hemispheres are displayed side-by-side in different viewing panes.

colormapstr | np.ndarray of float, shape(n_colors, 3 | 4)

Name of colormap to use or a custom look up table. If array, must be (n x 3) or (n x 4) array for with RGB or RGBA values between 0 and 255. The default (‘auto’) uses ‘hot’ for one-sided data and ‘mne’ for two-sided data.

time_labelstr | callable() | None

Format of the time label (a format string, a function that maps floating point time values to strings, or None for no label). The default is 'auto', which will use time=%0.2f ms if there is more than one time point.

smoothing_stepsint

The amount of smoothing.

transparentbool | None

If True: use a linear transparency between fmin and fmid and make values below fmin fully transparent (symmetrically for divergent colormaps). None will choose automatically based on colormap type.

alphafloat

Alpha value to apply globally to the overlay. Has no effect with mpl backend.

time_viewerbool | str

Display time viewer GUI. Can also be ‘auto’, which will mean True for the PyVista backend and False otherwise.

Changed in version 0.20.0: “auto” mode added.

subjects_dirpath-like | None

The path to the directory containing the FreeSurfer subjects reconstructions. If None, defaults to the SUBJECTS_DIR environment variable.

figureinstance of Figure3D | instance of matplotlib.figure.Figure | list | int | None

If None, a new figure will be created. If multiple views or a split view is requested, this must be a list of the appropriate length. If int is provided it will be used to identify the PyVista figure by it’s id or create a new figure with the given id. If an instance of matplotlib figure, mpl backend is used for plotting.

viewsstr | list

View to use. Using multiple views (list) is not supported for mpl backend. See Brain.show_view for valid string options.

When plotting a standard SourceEstimate (not volume, mixed, or vector) and using the PyVista backend, views='flat' is also supported to plot cortex as a flatmap.

Using multiple views (list) is not supported by the matplotlib backend.

Changed in version 0.21.0: Support for flatmaps.

colorbarbool

If True, display colorbar on scene.

climstr | dict

Colorbar properties specification. If ‘auto’, set clim automatically based on data percentiles. If dict, should contain:

kind‘value’ | ‘percent’
Flag to specify type of limits.

limslist | np.ndarray | tuple of float, 3 elements
Lower, middle, and upper bounds for colormap.

pos_limslist | np.ndarray | tuple of float, 3 elements
Lower, middle, and upper bound for colormap. Positive values will be mirrored directly across zero during colormap construction to obtain negative control points.

Note

Only one of lims or pos_lims should be provided. Only sequential colormaps should be used with lims, and only divergent colormaps should be used with pos_lims.

cortexstr or tuple

Specifies how binarized curvature values are rendered. Either the name of a preset Brain cortex colorscheme (one of ‘classic’, ‘bone’, ‘low_contrast’, or ‘high_contrast’), or the name of a colormap, or a tuple with values (colormap, min, max, reverse) to fully specify the curvature colors. Has no effect with mpl backend.

sizefloat or tuple of float

The size of the window, in pixels. can be one number to specify a square window, or the (width, height) of a rectangular window. Has no effect with mpl backend.

backgroundmatplotlib color

Color of the background of the display window.

foregroundmatplotlib color | None

Color of the foreground of the display window. Has no effect with mpl backend. None will choose white or black based on the background color.

initial_timefloat | None

The time to display on the plot initially. None to display the first time sample (default).

time_unit‘s’ | ‘ms’

Whether time is represented in seconds (“s”, default) or milliseconds (“ms”).

backend‘auto’ | ‘pyvistaqt’ | ‘matplotlib’

Which backend to use. If 'auto' (default), tries to plot with pyvistaqt, but resorts to matplotlib if no 3d backend is available.

New in version 0.15.0.

spacingstr

Only affects the matplotlib backend. The spacing to use for the source space. Can be 'ico#' for a recursively subdivided icosahedron, 'oct#' for a recursively subdivided octahedron, or 'all' for all points. In general, you can speed up the plotting by selecting a sparser source space. Defaults to ‘oct6’.

New in version 0.15.0.

titlestr | None

Title for the figure. If None, the subject name will be used.

New in version 0.17.0.

show_tracesbool | str | float

If True, enable interactive picking of a point on the surface of the brain and plot its time course. This feature is only available with the PyVista 3d backend, and requires time_viewer=True. Defaults to ‘auto’, which will use True if and only if time_viewer=True, the backend is PyVista, and there is more than one time point. If float (between zero and one), it specifies what proportion of the total window should be devoted to traces (True is equivalent to 0.25, i.e., it will occupy the bottom 1/4 of the figure).

New in version 0.20.0.

srcinstance of SourceSpaces | None

The source space corresponding to the source estimate. Only necessary if the STC is a volume or mixed source estimate.

volume_optionsfloat | dict | None

Options for volumetric source estimate plotting, with key/value pairs:

'resolution'float | None
Resolution (in mm) of volume rendering. Smaller (e.g., 1.) looks better at the cost of speed. None (default) uses the volume source space resolution, which is often something like 7 or 5 mm, without resampling.
'blending'str
Can be “mip” (default) for maximum intensity projection or “composite” for composite blending using alpha values.
'alpha'float | None
Alpha for the volumetric rendering. Defaults are 0.4 for vector source estimates and 1.0 for scalar source estimates.
'surface_alpha'float | None
Alpha for the surface enclosing the volume(s). None (default) will use half the volume alpha. Set to zero to avoid plotting the surface.
'silhouette_alpha'float | None
Alpha for a silhouette along the outside of the volume. None (default) will use 0.25 * surface_alpha.
'silhouette_linewidth'float
The line width to use for the silhouette. Default is 2.

A float input (default 1.) or None will be used for the 'resolution' entry.

view_layoutstr

Can be “vertical” (default) or “horizontal”. When using “horizontal” mode, the PyVista backend must be used and hemi cannot be “split”.

add_data_kwargsdict | None

Additional arguments to brain.add_data (e.g., dict(time_label_size=10)).

brain_kwargsdict | None

Additional arguments to the mne.viz.Brain constructor (e.g., dict(silhouette=True)).

verbosebool | str | int | None

Control verbosity of the logging output. If None, use the default verbosity level. See the logging documentation and mne.verbose() for details. Should only be passed as a keyword argument.

Returns

figureinstance of mne.viz.Brain | matplotlib.figure.Figure: An instance of mne.viz.Brain or matplotlib figure.

Notes

Flatmaps are available by default for fsaverage but not for other subjects reconstructed by FreeSurfer. We recommend using mne.compute_source_morph() to morph source estimates to fsaverage for flatmap plotting. If you want to construct your own flatmap for a given subject, these links might help:

Examples using plot:

Overview of MEG/EEG analysis with MNE-Python

Working with CTF data: the Brainstorm auditory dataset

The SourceEstimate data structure

Source localization with MNE, dSPM, sLORETA, and eLORETA

The role of dipole orientations in distributed source localization

Computing various MNE solutions

Visualize source time courses (stcs)

EEG source localization given electrode locations on an MRI

Permutation t-test on source data with spatio-temporal clustering

2 samples permutation test on source data with spatio-temporal clustering

Repeated measures ANOVA on source data with spatio-temporal clustering

Decoding (MVPA)

Working with ECoG data

Corrupt known signal with point spread

DICS for power mapping

Simulate raw data using subject anatomy

Make figures more publication ready

Sensitivity map of SSP projections

Cross-hemisphere comparison

Compute Power Spectral Density of inverse solution from single epochs

Decoding source space data

Display sensitivity maps for EEG and MEG sensors

Use source space morphing

Compute source power using DICS beamformer

Compute evoked ERS source power using DICS, LCMV beamformer, and dSPM

Generate a functional label from source estimates

Compute source power estimate by projecting the covariance with MNE

Morph surface source estimate

Visualize source leakage among labels using a circular graph

Plot point-spread functions (PSFs) and cross-talk functions (CTFs)

Compute cross-talk functions for LCMV beamformers

Compute spatial resolution metrics in source space

Compute spatial resolution metrics to compare MEG with EEG+MEG

Computing source space SNR

Compute MxNE with time-frequency sparse prior

Plotting the full vector-valued MNE solution

Optically pumped magnetometer (OPM) data

resample(sfreq, npad='auto', window='boxcar', n_jobs=1, verbose=None)[source]#

Resample data.

If appropriate, an anti-aliasing filter is applied before resampling. See Resampling and decimating data for more information.

Parameters

sfreqfloat: New sample rate to use.
npadint | str: Amount to pad the start and end of the data. Can also be “auto” to use a padding that will result in a power-of-two size (can be much faster).
windowstr | tuple: Window to use in resampling. See scipy.signal.resample().
n_jobsint: The number of jobs to run in parallel (default 1). If -1, it is set to the number of CPU cores. Requires the joblib package.
verbosebool | str | int | None: Control verbosity of the logging output. If None, use the default verbosity level. See the logging documentation and mne.verbose() for details. Should only be passed as a keyword argument.

Returns

stcinstance of SourceEstimate: The resampled source estimate.

Notes

For some data, it may be more accurate to use npad=0 to reduce artifacts. This is dataset dependent – check your data!

Note that the sample rate of the original data is inferred from tstep.

Examples using resample:

2 samples permutation test on source data with spatio-temporal clustering

property rh_data#: Right hemisphere data.

property rh_vertno#: Right hemisphere vertno.

save(fname, ftype='stc', *, overwrite=False, verbose=None)[source]#

Save the source estimates to a file.

Parameters

fnamestr: The stem of the file name. The file names used for surface source spaces are obtained by adding “-lh.stc” and “-rh.stc” (or “-lh.w” and “-rh.w”) to the stem provided, for the left and the right hemisphere, respectively.
ftypestr: File format to use. Allowed values are “stc” (default), “w”, and “h5”. The “w” format only supports a single time point.
overwritebool: If True (default False), overwrite the destination file if it exists.

New in version 1.0.
verbosebool | str | int | None: Control verbosity of the logging output. If None, use the default verbosity level. See the logging documentation and mne.verbose() for details. Should only be passed as a keyword argument.

Examples using save:

Compute source power spectral density (PSD) in a label

Compute induced power in the source space with dSPM

Compute sLORETA inverse solution on raw data

property sfreq#: Sample rate of the data.

property shape#: Shape of the data.

sqrt()[source]#

Take the square root.

Returns

stcinstance of SourceEstimate: A copy of the SourceEstimate with sqrt(data).

sum()[source]#

Make a summary stc file with sum over time points.

Returns

stcSourceEstimate | VectorSourceEstimate: The modified stc.

Examples using sum:

Compute source power spectral density (PSD) of VectorView and OPM data

time_as_index(times, use_rounding=False)[source]#

Convert time to indices.

Parameters

timeslist-like | float | int: List of numbers or a number representing points in time.
use_roundingbool: If True, use rounding (instead of truncation) when converting times to indices. This can help avoid non-unique indices.

Returns

indexndarray: Indices corresponding to the times supplied.

property times#: A timestamp for each sample.

property tmin#: The first timestamp.

to_data_frame(index=None, scalings=None, long_format=False, time_format='ms', *, verbose=None)[source]#

Export data in tabular structure as a pandas DataFrame.

Vertices are converted to columns in the DataFrame. By default, an additional column “time” is added, unless index='time' (in which case time values form the DataFrame’s index).

Parameters

index‘time’ | None: Kind of index to use for the DataFrame. If None, a sequential integer index (pandas.RangeIndex) will be used. If 'time', a pandas.Float64Index, pandas.Int64Index, or pandas.TimedeltaIndex will be used (depending on the value of time_format). Defaults to None.
scalingsdict | None: Scaling factor applied to the channels picked. If None, defaults to dict(eeg=1e6, mag=1e15, grad=1e13) — i.e., converts EEG to µV, magnetometers to fT, and gradiometers to fT/cm.
long_formatbool: If True, the DataFrame is returned in long format where each row is one observation of the signal at a unique combination of time point and vertex. Defaults to False.
time_formatstr | None: Desired time format. If None, no conversion is applied, and time values remain as float values in seconds. If 'ms', time values will be rounded to the nearest millisecond and converted to integers. If 'timedelta', time values will be converted to pandas.Timedelta values. Default is 'ms' in version 0.22, and will change to None in version 0.23.

New in version 0.20.
verbosebool | str | int | None: Control verbosity of the logging output. If None, use the default verbosity level. See the logging documentation and mne.verbose() for details. Should only be passed as a keyword argument.

Returns

dfinstance of pandas.DataFrame: A dataframe suitable for usage with other statistical/plotting/analysis packages.

to_original_src(src_orig, subject_orig=None, subjects_dir=None, verbose=None)[source]#

Get a source estimate from morphed source to the original subject.

Parameters

src_originstance of SourceSpaces: The original source spaces that were morphed to the current subject.
subject_origstr | None: The original subject. For most source spaces this shouldn’t need to be provided, since it is stored in the source space itself.
subjects_dirpath-like | None: The path to the directory containing the FreeSurfer subjects reconstructions. If None, defaults to the SUBJECTS_DIR environment variable.
verbosebool | str | int | None: Control verbosity of the logging output. If None, use the default verbosity level. See the logging documentation and mne.verbose() for details. Should only be passed as a keyword argument.

Returns

stcSourceEstimate | VectorSourceEstimate: The transformed source estimate.

See also

morph_source_spaces

Notes

New in version 0.10.0.

Examples using to_original_src:

Use source space morphing

transform(func, idx=None, tmin=None, tmax=None, copy=False)[source]#

Apply linear transform.

The transform is applied to each source time course independently.

Parameters

funccallable(): The transform to be applied, including parameters (see, e.g., functools.partial()). The first parameter of the function is the input data. The first two dimensions of the transformed data should be (i) vertices and (ii) time. See Notes for details.
idxarray | None: Indices of source time courses for which to compute transform. If None, all time courses are used.
tminfloat | int | None: First time point to include (ms). If None, self.tmin is used.
tmaxfloat | int | None: Last time point to include (ms). If None, self.tmax is used.
copybool: If True, return a new instance of SourceEstimate instead of modifying the input inplace.

Returns

stcsSourceEstimate | VectorSourceEstimate | list: The transformed stc or, in the case of transforms which yield N-dimensional output (where N > 2), a list of stcs. For a list, copy must be True.

Notes

Transforms which yield 3D output (e.g. time-frequency transforms) are valid, so long as the first two dimensions are vertices and time. In this case, the copy parameter must be True and a list of SourceEstimates, rather than a single instance of SourceEstimate, will be returned, one for each index of the 3rd dimension of the transformed data. In the case of transforms yielding 2D output (e.g. filtering), the user has the option of modifying the input inplace (copy = False) or returning a new instance of SourceEstimate (copy = True) with the transformed data.

Applying transforms can be significantly faster if the SourceEstimate object was created using “(kernel, sens_data)”, for the “data” parameter as the transform is applied in sensor space. Inverse methods, e.g., “apply_inverse_epochs”, or “apply_lcmv_epochs” do this automatically (if possible).

transform_data(func, idx=None, tmin_idx=None, tmax_idx=None)[source]#

Get data after a linear (time) transform has been applied.

The transform is applied to each source time course independently.

Parameters

funccallable(): The transform to be applied, including parameters (see, e.g., functools.partial()). The first parameter of the function is the input data. The first return value is the transformed data, remaining outputs are ignored. The first dimension of the transformed data has to be the same as the first dimension of the input data.
idxarray | None: Indicices of source time courses for which to compute transform. If None, all time courses are used.
tmin_idxint | None: Index of first time point to include. If None, the index of the first time point is used.
tmax_idxint | None: Index of the first time point not to include. If None, time points up to (and including) the last time point are included.

Returns

data_tndarray: The transformed data.

Notes

property tstep#: The change in time between two consecutive samples (1 / sfreq).

Examples using `mne.SourceEstimate`#

Overview of MEG/EEG analysis with MNE-Python

Working with CTF data: the Brainstorm auditory dataset

The SourceEstimate data structure

Source localization with MNE, dSPM, sLORETA, and eLORETA

The role of dipole orientations in distributed source localization

Computing various MNE solutions

Visualize source time courses (stcs)

EEG source localization given electrode locations on an MRI

Permutation t-test on source data with spatio-temporal clustering

2 samples permutation test on source data with spatio-temporal clustering

Repeated measures ANOVA on source data with spatio-temporal clustering

Decoding (MVPA)

Working with ECoG data

Corrupt known signal with point spread

DICS for power mapping

Generate simulated evoked data

Generate simulated raw data

Simulate raw data using subject anatomy

Cortical Signal Suppression (CSS) for removal of cortical signals

Plotting with mne.viz.Brain

Plotting with ``mne.viz.Brain``

Make figures more publication ready

Sensitivity map of SSP projections

Cross-hemisphere comparison

Compute Power Spectral Density of inverse solution from single epochs

Compute source power spectral density (PSD) in a label

Compute source power spectral density (PSD) of VectorView and OPM data

Compute induced power in the source space with dSPM

Decoding source space data

Display sensitivity maps for EEG and MEG sensors

Use source space morphing

Compute MNE-dSPM inverse solution on single epochs

Compute sLORETA inverse solution on raw data

Source localization with a custom inverse solver

Compute source power using DICS beamformer

Compute evoked ERS source power using DICS, LCMV beamformer, and dSPM

Compute a sparse inverse solution using the Gamma-MAP empirical Bayesian method

Extracting time course from source_estimate object

Generate a functional label from source estimates

Extracting the time series of activations in a label

Compute sparse inverse solution with mixed norm: MxNE and irMxNE

Compute source power estimate by projecting the covariance with MNE

Morph surface source estimate

Compute iterative reweighted TF-MxNE with multiscale time-frequency dictionary

Visualize source leakage among labels using a circular graph

Plot point-spread functions (PSFs) and cross-talk functions (CTFs)

Compute cross-talk functions for LCMV beamformers

Reading an STC file

Compute spatial resolution metrics in source space

Compute spatial resolution metrics to compare MEG with EEG+MEG

Computing source space SNR

Compute MxNE with time-frequency sparse prior

Plotting the full vector-valued MNE solution

Optically pumped magnetometer (OPM) data

mne.MixedVectorSourceEstimate

mne.VectorSourceEstimate

mne.SourceEstimate#

Examples using mne.SourceEstimate#

Examples using `mne.SourceEstimate`#