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Note that this reference documentation is identical to the help that is displayed in Matlab when you type “help ft_denoise_pca”.

  FT_DENOISE_PCA performs a principal component analysis (PCA) on specified
  reference channels and subtracts the projection of the data of interest onto
  this orthogonal basis from the data of interest. This is the algorithm which
  is applied by 4D to compute noise cancellation weights on a dataset of
  interest. This function has been designed for 4D MEG data, but can also be
  applied to data from other MEG systems.
 
  Use as
    [dataout] = ft_denoise_pca(cfg, data) 
  or 
    [dataout] = ft_denoise_pca(cfg, data, refdata)
 
  where data is a raw data-structure with MEG data that was obtained with
  FT_PREPROCESSING. If an additional data-structure refdata is in the input, the
  specified reference channels for the regression will be taken from this second
  data structure. This can be useful when reference channel specific
  preprocessing needs to be done (e.g. low-pass filtering).
 
  The output structure dataout contains the denoised data in a format that is
  consistent with the output of FT_PREPROCESSING.
 
  The configuration should be according to
    cfg.refchannel = the channels used as reference signal (default = 'MEGREF')
    cfg.channel    = the channels to be denoised (default = 'MEG')
    cfg.truncate   = optional truncation of the singular value spectrum (default = 'no')
    cfg.zscore     = standardise reference data prior to PCA (default = 'no')
    cfg.pertrial   = 'no' (default) or 'yes'. Regress out the references on
                     a per trial basis
    cfg.trials     = list of trials that are used (default = 'all')
 
  if cfg.truncate is integer n > 1, n will be the number of singular values kept.
  if 0 < cfg.truncate < 1, the singular value spectrum will be thresholded at the 
  fraction cfg.truncate of the largest singular value.
 
  See also FT_PREPROCESSING, FT_DENOISE_SYNTHETIC