moabb.datasets.Schirrmeister2017#

class moabb.datasets.Schirrmeister2017(subjects=None, sessions=None, *, return_all_modalities=False)[source]#

Bases: BaseDataset

[source]

Dataset Snapshot

Schirrmeister2017

Motor Imagery, 4 classes (right_hand vs left_hand vs rest vs feet)

AuthorsRobin Tibor Schirrmeister, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Lukas Dominique Josef Fiederer, Martin Glasstetter, Katharina Eggensperger, Michael Tangermann, Frank Hutter, Wolfram Burgard, Tonio Ball

🇩🇪 University of Freiburg, DE·2017·robin.schirrmeister@uniklinik-freiburg.de
Motor Imagery Code: Schirrmeister2017 14 subjects 1 session 128 ch 500 Hz 4 classes 4.0 s trials CC BY 4.0

Class Labels: right_hand, left_hand, rest, feet

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Overview

High-gamma dataset described in Schirrmeister et al. 2017.

Dataset from

Our "High-Gamma Dataset" is a 128-electrode dataset (of which we later only use 44 sensors covering the motor cortex, (see Section 2.7.1), obtained from 14 healthy subjects (6 female, 2 left-handed, age 27.2 ± 3.6 (mean ± std)) with roughly 1000 (963.1 ± 150.9, mean ± std) four-second trials of executed movements divided into 13 runs per subject. The four classes of movements were movements of either the left hand, the right hand, both feet, and rest (no movement, but same type of visual cue as for the other classes). The training set consists of the approx. 880 trials of all runs except the last two runs, the test set of the approx. 160 trials of the last 2 runs. This dataset was acquired in an EEG lab optimized for non-invasive detection of high- frequency movement-related EEG components (Ball et al., 2008; Darvas et al., 2010).

Depending on the direction of a gray arrow that was shown on black back- ground, the subjects had to repetitively clench their toes (downward arrow), perform sequential finger-tapping of their left (leftward arrow) or right (rightward arrow) hand, or relax (upward arrow). The movements were selected to require little proximal muscular activity while still being complex enough to keep subjects in- volved. Within the 4-s trials, the subjects performed the repetitive movements at their own pace, which had to be maintained as long as the arrow was showing. Per run, 80 arrows were displayed for 4 s each, with 3 to 4 s of continuous random inter-trial interval. The order of presentation was pseudo-randomized, with all four arrows being shown every four trials. Ideally 13 runs were performed to collect 260 trials of each movement and rest. The stimuli were presented and the data recorded with BCI2000 (Schalk et al., 2004). The experiment was approved by the ethical committee of the University of Freiburg.

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Benchmark Context

WithinSession

Included in 3 MOABB benchmark table(s). Scores are across available pipelines (WithinSession accuracy).

Sample frame: 14 subjects × 1 sessions

  • MI left vs right 19 pipelinesMax 88.65 · Median 79.42 · Mean 79.72 · Std 6.79
  • MI all classes 16 pipelinesMax 85.53 · Median 75.91 · Mean 74.85 · Std 9.93
  • MI right hand vs feet 16 pipelinesMax 98.72 · Median 97.28 · Mean 96.23 · Std 3.79

Citation & Impact

  • Paper DOI10.1002/hbm.23730
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Stimulus Protocol
../_images/Schirrmeister2017.svg

4s task window per trial · 4-class motor imagery paradigm · 2 runs/session across 1 sessions

HED Event Tags
HED tags4/4 events annotated

Source: MOABB BIDS HED annotation mapping.

Sensory-event
4
Agent-action
3
Experimental-stimulus
1
Rest
1
Visual-presentation
1
right_hand
Sensory-eventAgent-action
left_hand
Sensory-eventAgent-action
rest
Sensory-eventExperimental-stimulusVisual-presentationRest
feet
Sensory-eventAgent-action

HED tree view

Tree · right_hand
├─ Sensory-event
│  ├─ Experimental-stimulus
│  └─ Visual-presentation
└─ Agent-action
   └─ Imagine
      ├─ Move
      └─ Right
         └─ Hand
Tree · left_hand
├─ Sensory-event
│  ├─ Experimental-stimulus
│  └─ Visual-presentation
└─ Agent-action
   └─ Imagine
      ├─ Move
      └─ Left
         └─ Hand
Tree · rest
├─ Sensory-event
├─ Experimental-stimulus
├─ Visual-presentation
└─ Rest
Tree · feet
├─ Sensory-event
│  ├─ Experimental-stimulus
│  └─ Visual-presentation
└─ Agent-action
   └─ Imagine
      ├─ Move
      └─ Foot
Channel Summary
Total channels128
EEG128 (EEG)
Montage10-05
Sampling500 Hz
Notch / line50 Hz

This diagram is automatically generated from MOABB metadata. Please consult the original publication to confirm the experimental protocol details.

High-gamma dataset described in Schirrmeister et al. 2017.

Dataset from [1]

Our “High-Gamma Dataset” is a 128-electrode dataset (of which we later only use 44 sensors covering the motor cortex, (see Section 2.7.1), obtained from 14 healthy subjects (6 female, 2 left-handed, age 27.2 ± 3.6 (mean ± std)) with roughly 1000 (963.1 ± 150.9, mean ± std) four-second trials of executed movements divided into 13 runs per subject. The four classes of movements were movements of either the left hand, the right hand, both feet, and rest (no movement, but same type of visual cue as for the other classes). The training set consists of the approx. 880 trials of all runs except the last two runs, the test set of the approx. 160 trials of the last 2 runs. This dataset was acquired in an EEG lab optimized for non-invasive detection of high- frequency movement-related EEG components (Ball et al., 2008; Darvas et al., 2010).

Depending on the direction of a gray arrow that was shown on black back- ground, the subjects had to repetitively clench their toes (downward arrow), perform sequential finger-tapping of their left (leftward arrow) or right (rightward arrow) hand, or relax (upward arrow). The movements were selected to require little proximal muscular activity while still being complex enough to keep subjects in- volved. Within the 4-s trials, the subjects performed the repetitive movements at their own pace, which had to be maintained as long as the arrow was showing. Per run, 80 arrows were displayed for 4 s each, with 3 to 4 s of continuous random inter-trial interval. The order of presentation was pseudo-randomized, with all four arrows being shown every four trials. Ideally 13 runs were performed to collect 260 trials of each movement and rest. The stimuli were presented and the data recorded with BCI2000 (Schalk et al., 2004). The experiment was approved by the ethical committee of the University of Freiburg.

References

[1]

Schirrmeister, Robin Tibor, et al. “Deep learning with convolutional neural networks for EEG decoding and visualization.” Human brain mapping 38.11 (2017): 5391-5420.

from moabb.datasets import Schirrmeister2017
dataset = Schirrmeister2017()
data = dataset.get_data(subjects=[1])
print(data[1])

Dataset summary

#Subj

14

#Chan

128

#Classes

4

#Trials / class

120

Trials length

4 s

Freq

500 Hz

#Sessions

1

#Runs

2

Total_trials

13440

Participants

  • Population: healthy

  • Age: 27.2 years

  • Handedness: {‘right’: 12, ‘left’: 2}

Equipment

  • Electrodes: EEG

  • Montage: standard_1005

Data Access

Experimental Protocol

  • Paradigm: imagery

  • Stimulus: visual

__init__(subjects=None, sessions=None, *, return_all_modalities=False)[source]#

Initialize function for the BaseDataset.

property all_subjects#

Full list of subjects available in this dataset (unfiltered).

convert_to_bids(path=None, subjects=None, overwrite=False, format='EDF', verbose=None, generate_figures=False)[source]#

Convert the dataset to BIDS format.

Saves the raw EEG data in a BIDS-compliant directory structure. Unlike the caching mechanism (see CacheConfig), the files produced here do not contain a processing-pipeline hash (desc-<hash>) in their names, making the output a clean, shareable BIDS dataset.

Parameters:

  • path (str | Path | None) – Directory under which the BIDS dataset will be written. If None the default MNE data directory is used (same default as the rest of MOABB).

  • subjects (list of int | None) – Subject numbers to convert. If None, all subjects in subject_list are converted.

  • overwrite (bool) – If True, existing BIDS files for a subject are removed before saving. Default is False.

  • format (str) – The file format for the raw EEG data. Supported values are "EDF" (default), "BrainVision", and "EEGLAB".

  • verbose (str | None) – Verbosity level forwarded to MNE/MNE-BIDS.

  • generate_figures (bool) – If True, generate interactive neural signature HTML figures in {bids_root}/derivatives/neural_signatures/. Requires plotly (pip install moabb[interactive]). Default is False.

Returns:

bids_root – Path to the root of the written BIDS dataset.

Return type:

pathlib.Path

Examples

>>> from moabb.datasets import AlexMI
>>> dataset = AlexMI()
>>> bids_root = dataset.convert_to_bids(path='/tmp/bids', subjects=[1])

See also

CacheConfig

Cache configuration for get_data().

moabb.datasets.bids_interface.get_bids_root

Return the BIDS root path.

Notes

Added in version 1.5.

data_path(subject, path=None, force_update=False, update_path=None, verbose=None)[source]#

Get path to local copy of a subject data.

Parameters:

  • subject (int) – Number of subject to use

  • path (None | str) – Location of where to look for the data storing location. If None, the environment variable or config parameter MNE_DATASETS_(dataset)_PATH is used. If it doesn’t exist, the “~/mne_data” directory is used. If the dataset is not found under the given path, the data will be automatically downloaded to the specified folder.

  • force_update (bool) – Force update of the dataset even if a local copy exists.

  • update_path (bool | None Deprecated) – If True, set the MNE_DATASETS_(dataset)_PATH in mne-python config to the given path. If None, the user is prompted.

  • verbose (bool, str, int, or None) – If not None, override default verbose level (see mne.verbose()).

Returns:

path – Local path to the given data file. This path is contained inside a list of length one, for compatibility.

Return type:

list of str

download(subject_list=None, path=None, force_update=False, update_path=None, accept=False, verbose=None)[source]#

Download all data from the dataset.

This function is only useful to download all the dataset at once.

Parameters:

  • subject_list (list of int | None) – List of subjects id to download, if None all subjects are downloaded.

  • path (None | str) – Location of where to look for the data storing location. If None, the environment variable or config parameter MNE_DATASETS_(dataset)_PATH is used. If it doesn’t exist, the “~/mne_data” directory is used. If the dataset is not found under the given path, the data will be automatically downloaded to the specified folder.

  • force_update (bool) – Force update of the dataset even if a local copy exists.

  • update_path (bool | None) – If True, set the MNE_DATASETS_(dataset)_PATH in mne-python config to the given path. If None, the user is prompted.

  • accept (bool) – Accept licence term to download the data, if any. Default: False

  • verbose (bool, str, int, or None) – If not None, override default verbose level (see mne.verbose()).

get_additional_metadata(subject: str, session: str, run: str) → None | DataFrame[source]#

Load additional metadata for a specific subject, session, and run.

This method is intended to be overridden by subclasses to provide additional metadata specific to the dataset. The metadata is typically loaded from an events.tsv file or similar data source.

Parameters:

  • subject (str) – The identifier for the subject.

  • session (str) – The identifier for the session.

  • run (str) – The identifier for the run.

Returns:

A DataFrame containing the additional metadata if available, otherwise None.

Return type:

None | pd.DataFrame

get_block_repetition(paradigm, subjects, block_list, repetition_list)[source]#

Select data for all provided subjects, blocks and repetitions.

subject -> session -> run -> block -> repetition

See also

BaseDataset.get_data

Parameters:

  • subjects (List of int) – List of subject number

  • block_list (List of int) – List of block number

  • repetition_list (List of int) – List of repetition number inside a block

Returns:

data – dict containing the raw data

Return type:

Dict

get_data(subjects=None, cache_config=None, process_pipeline=None)[source]#

Return the data corresponding to a list of subjects.

The returned data is a dictionary with the following structure:

data = {'subject_id' :
            {'session_id':
                {'run_id': run}
            }
        }

subjects are on top, then we have sessions, then runs. A sessions is a recording done in a single day, without removing the EEG cap. A session is constitued of at least one run. A run is a single contiguous recording. Some dataset break session in multiple runs.

Processing steps can optionally be applied to the data using the *_pipeline arguments. These pipelines are applied in the following order: raw_pipeline -> epochs_pipeline -> array_pipeline. If a *_pipeline argument is None, the step will be skipped. Therefore, the array_pipeline may either receive a mne.io.Raw or a mne.Epochs object as input depending on whether epochs_pipeline is None or not.

Parameters:

  • subjects (List of int) – List of subject number

  • cache_config (dict | CacheConfig) – Configuration for caching of datasets. See CacheConfig for details.

  • process_pipeline (Pipeline | None) – Optional processing pipeline to apply to the data. To generate an adequate pipeline, we recommend using moabb.utils.make_process_pipelines(). This pipeline will receive mne.io.BaseRaw objects. The steps names of this pipeline should be elements of StepType. According to their name, the steps should either return a mne.io.BaseRaw, a mne.Epochs, or a numpy.ndarray(). This pipeline must be “fixed” because it will not be trained, i.e. no call to fit will be made.

Returns:

data – dict containing the raw data

Return type:

Dict

property metadata: DatasetMetadata | None[source]#

Return structured metadata for this dataset.

Returns the DatasetMetadata object from the centralized catalog, or None if metadata is not available for this dataset.

Returns:

The metadata object containing acquisition parameters, participant demographics, experiment details, and documentation. Returns None if no metadata is registered for this dataset.

Return type:

DatasetMetadata | None

Examples

>>> from moabb.datasets import BNCI2014_001
>>> dataset = BNCI2014_001()
>>> dataset.metadata.participants.n_subjects
9
>>> dataset.metadata.acquisition.sampling_rate
250.0