Electrode drift in EEG

I coudn’t find an image of electrode drift for my slides, so here I quickly generated one. The only fancy thing is the usage of datetime to have minutes on the x-axis (I also made this post so I don’t forget this trick ;))

DC-Amplifier (REFA-2, tmsi) plot of three electrodes over ~45min recording data. Strong DC-Offsets and drifts are observed (this is typical & normal)
After filtering at 0.1Hz the strong drifts and offsets are gone (as intended), the y-axis has a very different axis now!
Obviously a cutoff-freq of 0.05Hz in the filter will still allow for some slow moving drifts. These offsets are usually accomodated for by baseline corrections


Thanks to Anna Lisa Gert for this dataset

% Load Data
EEG = pop_loadeep_v4('subj23.cnt');
% Load filtered data (takes 35min to filter...)
EEG_filt = pop_loadset('2_subj23_lowpass_resample_deblank.set');
%%
% Convert time to actual time
timesnew = datetime(EEG.times/1000,'ConvertFrom','epochtime','Epoch','2000-01-01');
% select random channels
chix = [5,63,27];

% Plot the unfiltered data
plot(timesnew,EEG.data(chix,:)')
% Make the plot beautiful
datetick('x','MM','keeplimits','keepticks') % only show minutes
xlabel('time [min]') 
ylabel('voltage [µV]')
legend({EEG.chanlocs(chix).labels},'Location','East')
box off
title('EEG Electrode Drift (DC Amplifier, avg ref)')
set(gca,'fontsize', 14) % for a presentation
set(gca, 'FontName', 'HelveticaNeueLT Pro 45 Lt')
%%
% Convert again because data have been resampled
timesnew = datetime(EEG_filt.times/1000,'ConvertFrom','epochtime','Epoch','2000-01-01');

plot(timesnew,EEG_filt.data(chix,:)')

datetick('x','MM','keeplimits','keepticks')
xlabel('time [min]')
ylabel('voltage [µV]')
legend({EEG.chanlocs(chix).labels})
box off
title('EEG Electrode Drift (avg ref, 0.1Hz filter)')
set(gca,'fontsize', 14) % for a presentation
set(gca, 'FontName', 'HelveticaNeueLT Pro 45 Lt')

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  1. Cathy Reed · 15. February 2022 Reply

    Great image! Thanks so much for generating it and making it available. I am using it in my EEG processing course.

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