Healthy Volunteer Protocol Upload Process
Code
Requirements and Installation
pyctf General Utilities to interface with CTF data using python. Also provides bids processing utilities. https://megcore.nih.gov/index.php/Pyctf - A more recent update will be coming available soon
hv_proc Python scripts to extract and mark HV specific stimuli and validate trigger/response timing and data QA. **Open Access in development
NIH MEG Bids processing Routines to convert the CTF MEG data into BIDs format using mne_bids and bids_validator https://github.com/nih-fmrif/meg_bids/blob/master/1_mne_bids_extractor.ipynb
mne_bids https://mne.tools/mne-bids/stable/index.html pip install -U mne pip install -U mne-bids
Afni Required for extracting HPI coil locations. https://afni.nimh.nih.gov/pub/dist/doc/htmldoc/background_install/install_instructs/index.html
Bids Validator
https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-validator
BIDS format / OpenNeuro
All data is converted to BIDS format and uploaded to OpenNeuro as an open access dataset. Data triggers are cleaned using several routines listed below. These have been used to realign stimulus triggers to optical onset of the projector. Datasets that have logfiles have been merged with the trigger data to label triggers and responses.
Processing on Biowulf
To process the scripts on biowulf: pyctf & hv_proc must be in your conda path (if necessary add filepaths to a .pth file in the conda site-packages folder) module load ctf module load afni
Processing Steps
Acquire data Copy raw data to Biowulf: $MEG_folder/NIMH_HV/MEG Copy data to bids_staging: $MEG_folder/NIMH_HV/bids_staging
sinteractive --mem=8G --cpus-per-task=4 #Start small sized server conda activate hv_proc module load afni module load ctf #Required for addmarks
process_hv_data -subject_folder $Subject_Folder #Loops over all task processing steps and creates QA documents
Remove history files and replace paths/dates/names in text files
Processing steps in process_hv_data.py
Loop over the following scripts: CONVERT MRI FIDUCIALS TO TAGs >> get code name pyctf.bids.extract_tags $subjid_anat+orig.BRIK > tagfile
Process Tasks and assert ouputs match expected: airpuff_processing.py oddball_processing.py hariri_processing.py sternberg_processing.py gonogo_processing.py
Calculate the noise level Scrub path info and history text files from the datasets to remove date and identifiers
General Task Analysis Processing
Invert Trigger
During some tasks the trigger randomly inverts. For triggers a histogram is created with the top two bins representing the ON and OFF state of the stimuli. The expectation is that the OFF state should represent more time during the task than the ON state, if not the trigger is inverted prior to analysis.
Threshold Detection
Amplitude detection based on normalizing analog signal between 0 and 1 and derivative threshold. Temporary filters may be applied to the data during this operation.
Merge Logfile
For psychoPy tasks (Sternberg, Hariri, oddball), the text logfile is imported. The first few timepoints representing instruction screens are removed from the file and the rest are added to the dataframe.
Coding Analog stimuli with Parallel port Values
Analog triggers are generally converted to single states (ON/OFF), the parallel port can be used to code the output values
Reset Timing to Optical Trigger
Due to projector frame buffering there can be timing jitter in the presentation of visual stimuli to the subject. The stimuli computer sends a parallel port trigger to the acquisition computer and the stimuli to the projector. The visual tasks have been designed to activate the upper right corner with a specific bit value The projector - Propix (model ????) has an output BNC signal that triggers when the
Response Coding
The correct response is calculated....
Task Specific Processing
Oddball Task
Description: 3 sound stimuli presented to the participant. The participant attends to the "standard" tone stimuli (210 epochs) and is required to respond to the "target" tone stimuli (45 epochs) that are intermixed with the standard tone. Additionally a broadband noise stimuli is presented as a "distractor" stimuli (45 epochs).
UADC003 - Left Ear auditory stimuli UADC004 - Right Ear auditory stimuli UADC005 - Participant response UPPT001 - Stimuli Coding (standard:1, target:2, distractor:3)
oddball_processing.py
Hariri Hammer
Emotional processing task contrasting happy and sad faces. Shapes are used as neutral baselines. An initial "top stim" will be shown followed by a fixation crosshair. The subject is supposed to respond during the "choice stim" by pressing the left or right response button that corresponds to the face matching the "top stim" presentation.
UADC006 - Left response UADC007 - Right response UADC016 - Projector onset UPPT001 - Parallel port stimuli
Temporal Coding (UPPT001)
Top Stim Choice Stim Response Value
Stimulus Trigger codes (UPPT001)
diamond,0x1 moon,0x2 oval,0x3 plus,0x4 rectangle,0x5 trapezoid,0x6 triangle,0x7 hapmale,0xB hapfem,0xC sadmale,0x15 sadfem,0x16
Processing Scripts:
Files have been compiled into a folder hv_proc This contains script interfaces into the megblocks package
Data Quality Assurance and PreUpload
Verify that all tasks have the appropriate number of triggers hv_proc/utilities/marker_quality_assurance.py -data_folder $DATA