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Working with pandas
This example uses the ‘fmri’ dataset to transform and combine data in order to prepare it to bse used by julearn.
References
Waskom, M.L., Frank, M.C., Wagner, A.D. (2016). Adaptive engagement of cognitive control in context-dependent decision-making. Cerebral Cortex.
# Authors: Federico Raimondo <f.raimondo@fz-juelich.de>
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# License: AGPL
from seaborn import load_dataset
import pandas as pd
One of the key elements that make julearn easy to use, is the possibility to work directly with pandas data frames. Also known as excel spreadsheets or csv files.
Ideally, we will have everything tabulated and organised for julearn, but it might not be your case. You might have some files with the fMRI values, some others with demographics, some other with diagnostic metrics or behavioural results.
You need to prepare this files for julearn.
One option is to manually edit the files and make sure that everything is ready to do some machine-learning. However, this is prune to introduce errors.
Fortunately, pandas provides several tools to deal with this task.
This example is a collection on some of this useful methods
Lets start with the fmri dataset.
df_fmri = load_dataset('fmri')
Lets see what this dataset has.
print(df_fmri.head())
subject timepoint event region signal
0 s13 18 stim parietal -0.017552
1 s5 14 stim parietal -0.080883
2 s12 18 stim parietal -0.081033
3 s11 18 stim parietal -0.046134
4 s10 18 stim parietal -0.037970
From long to wide format
We have seen this in other examples. If we want to use julearn, each feature must be a columns. In order to use the signals from different regions as features, we need to convert this dataframe from the long format to the wide format.
We will use the pivot method.
df_fmri = df_fmri.pivot(
index=['subject', 'timepoint', 'event'],
columns='region',
values='signal')
This method reshapes the table, keeping a the specified elements as index, columns and values.
In our case, the values are extracted from the signal column. The columns from the region column and subject, timepoint and event becomes the index.
The index is what identifies each sample. As a rule, the index can’t be duplicated. If each subject has more than one timepoint, and each timepoint has more than one event, then this 3 elements are needed as the index.
Lets see what we have here:
print(df_fmri.head())
region frontal parietal
subject timepoint event
s0 0 cue 0.007766 -0.006899
stim -0.021452 -0.039327
1 cue 0.016440 0.000300
stim -0.021054 -0.035735
2 cue 0.024296 0.033220
Now this is in the format we want. However, in order to access the index
as columns df_fmri['subject'] we need to reset the index.
Check the sutil but important difference:
df_fmri = df_fmri.reset_index()
print(df_fmri.head())
region subject timepoint event frontal parietal
0 s0 0 cue 0.007766 -0.006899
1 s0 0 stim -0.021452 -0.039327
2 s0 1 cue 0.016440 0.000300
3 s0 1 stim -0.021054 -0.035735
4 s0 2 cue 0.024296 0.033220
Merging or joining data frames
So now we have our fMRI data tabulated for julearn. However, it might be the case that we have some important information in another file. For example, the subjects’ age and the place where they were scanned.
For the purpose of the example, I will create the dataframe here.
subject age scanner
0 s0 23 a
1 s1 21 a
2 s2 31 a
3 s3 29 a
4 s4 43 a
5 s5 23 a
6 s6 43 b
7 s7 28 b
8 s8 48 b
9 s9 29 b
10 s10 35 b
11 s11 23 b
12 s12 34 b
13 s13 25 b
We will use the join method. This method will join the two dataframes,
matching elements by the index.
In this case, the matching element (or index) will be the column subject.
We need to set the index in each dataframe before join.
df_fmri = df_fmri.set_index('subject')
df_meta = df_meta.set_index('subject')
df_fmri = df_fmri.join(df_meta)
print(df_fmri)
timepoint event frontal parietal age scanner
subject
s0 0 cue 0.007766 -0.006899 23 a
s0 0 stim -0.021452 -0.039327 23 a
s0 1 cue 0.016440 0.000300 23 a
s0 1 stim -0.021054 -0.035735 23 a
s0 2 cue 0.024296 0.033220 23 a
... ... ... ... ... ... ...
s9 16 stim -0.036739 -0.131641 29 b
s9 17 cue -0.004900 -0.036362 29 b
s9 17 stim -0.030099 -0.121574 29 b
s9 18 cue -0.000643 -0.051040 29 b
s9 18 stim -0.009959 -0.103513 29 b
[532 rows x 6 columns]
Finally, lets reset the index and have it ready for julearn
df_fmri = df_fmri.reset_index()
Now we can use, for example, age and scanner as confounds.
Reshaping data frames (more complex)
Lets suppose that our prediction target is now the age and we want to use as features the frontal and parietal value during each event. For this purpose, we need to convert the event values into columns. There are two events: cue and stim. So this will result in 4 columns.
We will still use the pivot, but in this case, we will have two values:
df_fmri = df_fmri.pivot(
index=['subject', 'timepoint', 'age', 'scanner'],
columns='event',
values=['frontal', 'parietal'])
print(df_fmri)
frontal parietal
event cue stim cue stim
subject timepoint age scanner
s0 0 23 a 0.007766 -0.021452 -0.006899 -0.039327
1 23 a 0.016440 -0.021054 0.000300 -0.035735
2 23 a 0.024296 -0.009038 0.033220 0.009642
3 23 a 0.047859 0.026727 0.085040 0.086399
4 23 a 0.069775 0.070558 0.115321 0.154058
... ... ... ... ...
s9 14 29 b 0.010535 -0.061817 -0.034386 -0.130267
15 29 b 0.002170 -0.048007 -0.038257 -0.134828
16 29 b -0.004290 -0.036739 -0.035395 -0.131641
17 29 b -0.004900 -0.030099 -0.036362 -0.121574
18 29 b -0.000643 -0.009959 -0.051040 -0.103513
[266 rows x 4 columns]
Since the columns names are combinations of the values in the event column and the previous frontal and parietal columns, it is now a multi-level column name.
print(df_fmri.columns)
MultiIndex([( 'frontal', 'cue'),
( 'frontal', 'stim'),
('parietal', 'cue'),
('parietal', 'stim')],
names=[None, 'event'])
The following trick will join the different levels using an underscore (_)
df_fmri.columns = ['_'.join(x) for x in df_fmri.columns]
print(df_fmri)
frontal_cue ... parietal_stim
subject timepoint age scanner ...
s0 0 23 a 0.007766 ... -0.039327
1 23 a 0.016440 ... -0.035735
2 23 a 0.024296 ... 0.009642
3 23 a 0.047859 ... 0.086399
4 23 a 0.069775 ... 0.154058
... ... ... ...
s9 14 29 b 0.010535 ... -0.130267
15 29 b 0.002170 ... -0.134828
16 29 b -0.004290 ... -0.131641
17 29 b -0.004900 ... -0.121574
18 29 b -0.000643 ... -0.103513
[266 rows x 4 columns]
We have finally the information we want. We can now reset the index
df_fmri = df_fmri.reset_index()
Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.062 seconds)