Analysis of human PPG,ECG and EEG signals by eigenvector methods

This paper presents eigenvector methods for analysis of the photoplethysmogram (PPG), electrocardiogram (ECG), electroencephalogram (EEG) signals recorded in order to examine the effects of pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) at extremely low frequency (ELF) upon the human electrophysiological signal behavior. The features representing the PPG, ECG, EEG signals were obtained by using the eigenvector methods. In addition to this, the problem of selecting relevant features among the features available for the purpose of discrimination of the signals was dealt with. Some conclusions were drawn concerning the efficiency of the eigenvector methods as a feature extraction method used for representing the signals under study.     

基于小波包变换的脑电波信号降噪及特征提取

针对原始脑电波信号存在非平稳性且非常容易受到各种信号干扰等特点,对基于小波变换和小波包变换的脑电波信号的滤波降噪方法,和基于小波包变换的脑电波信号特征提取方法进行了研究。首先利用MindSet采集到原始脑电波数据,然后分别应用小波变换和小波包变换对其进行降噪处理,比较了两种方法的性能,验证了基于小波包变换的降噪方法的优越性和特征提取方法的有效性。     

免疫多域特征融合的多核学习SVM运动想象脑电信号分类

针对多通道四类运动想象(Motor imagery, MI)脑电信号(Electroencephalography, EEG)的分类问题, 提出免疫多域特征融合的多核学习SVM (Support vector machine)运动想象脑电信号分类算法.首先, 通过离散小波变换(Discrete wavelet transform, DWT)提取脑电信号的时频域特征, 并利用一对多公共空间模式(One versus the rest common spatial patterns, OVR-CSP)提取脑电信号的空域特征, 融合时频空域特征形成特征向量.其次, 利用多核学习支持向量机(Multiple kernel learning support vector machine, MKL-SVM)对提取的特征向量进行分类.最后, 利用免疫遗传算法(Immune genetic algorithm, IGA)对模型的相关参数进行优化, 得到识别率更高的脑电信号分类模型.采用BCI2005desc-Ⅲa数据集进行实验验证, 对比结果表明, 本文所提出的分类模型有效地解决了传统单域特征提取算法特征单一、信息描述不足的问题, 更准确地表达了不同受试者个性化的多域特征, 取得了94.21%的识别率, 优于使用相同数据集的其他方法.     

Feature extraction and gating techniques for ultrasonic shaft signal classification

Discrete wavelet transform (DWT) coefficients of ultrasonic test signals are considered useful features for input into classifiers due to their effective time–frequency representation of non-stationary signals. However, DWT exhibits a time-variance problem that has resulted in reservations for its wide acceptance. In this paper, a new technique to derive a preprocessing method for time-domain A-scans signal is presented. This technique offers consistent extraction of a segment of the signal from long signals that occur in the non-destructive testing of shafts. Two different classifiers using artificial neural networks and support vector machines are supplied with features generated by our new preprocessing method and their classification performance are compared and evaluated. Their performances are also compared with other alternatives and report the results here. This investigation establishes experimentally that DWT coefficients can be used as a feature extraction scheme more reliably by using our new preprocessing technique.     

Application of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system for vigilance level estimation by using wavelet-entropy feature extraction

This paper presents the application of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) model for estimation of vigilance level by using electroencephalogram (EEG) signals recorded during transition from wakefulness to sleep. The developed ANFIS model combined the neural network adaptive capabilities and the fuzzy logic qualitative approach. This study comprises of three stages. In the first stage, three types of EEG signals (alert signal, drowsy signal and sleep signal) were obtained from 30 healthy subjects. In the second stage, for feature extraction, obtained EEG signals were separated to its sub-bands using discrete wavelet transform (DWT). Then, entropy of each sub-band was calculated using Shannon entropy algorithm. In the third stage, the ANFIS was trained with the back-propagation gradient descent method in combination with least squares method. The extracted features of three types of EEG signals were used as input patterns of the three ANFIS classifiers. In order to improve estimation accuracy, the fourth ANFIS classifier (combining ANFIS) was trained using the outputs of the three ANFIS classifiers as input data. The performance of the ANFIS model was tested using the EEG data obtained from 12 healthy subjects that have not been used for the training. The results confirmed that the developed ANFIS classifier has potential for estimation of vigilance level by using EEG signals.     

Fault gear identification and classification using discrete wavelet transform and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference

In this paper, an intelligent diagnosis for fault gear identification and classification based on vibration signal using discrete wavelet transform and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is presented. The discrete wavelet transform (DWT) technique plays one of the important roles for signal feature extraction in the proposed system. The abnormal transient signals will show in different decomposition levels and can be used to recognize the various faults by the DWT figure. However, many fault conditions are hard to inspect accurately by the naked eye. In the present study, the feature extraction method based on discrete wavelet transform with energy spectrum is proposed. The different order wavelets are considered to identify fault features accurately. The database is established by feature vectors of energy spectrum which are used as input pattern in the training and identification process. Furthermore, the ANFIS is proposed to identify and classify the fault gear positions and the gear fault conditions in the fault diagnosis system. The proposed ANFIS includes both the fuzzy logic qualitative approximation and the adaptive neural network capability. The experimental results verified that the proposed ANFIS has more possibilities in fault gear identification. The ANFIS achieved an accuracy identification rate which was more satisfactory than traditional vision inspection in the proposed system.     

A new method for expert target recognition system: Genetic wavelet extreme learning machine (GAWELM)

In last year’s, the expert target recognition has been become very important topic in radar literature. In this study, a target recognition system is introduced for expert target recognition (ATR) using radar target echo signals of High Range Resolution (HRR) radars. This study includes a combination of an adaptive feature extraction and classification using optimum wavelet entropy parameter values. The features used in this study are extracted from radar target echo signals. Herein, a genetic wavelet extreme learning machine classifier model (GAWELM) is developed for expert target recognition. The GAWELM composes of three stages. These stages of GAWELM are genetic algorithm, wavelet analysis and extreme learning machine (ELM) classifier. In previous studies of radar target recognition have shown that the learning speed of feedforward networks is in general much slower than required and it has been a major disadvantage. There are two important causes. These are: (1) the slow gradient-based learning algorithms are commonly used to train neural networks, and (2) all the parameters of the networks are fixed iteratively by using such learning algorithms. In this paper, a new learning algorithm named extreme learning machine (ELM) for single-hidden layer feedforward networks (SLFNs) Ahern et al., 1989, Al-Otum and Al-Sowayan, 2011, Avci et al., 2005a, Avci et al., 2005b, Biswal et al., 2009, Frigui et al., in press, Cao et al., 2010, Guo et al., 2011, Famili et al., 1997, Han and Huang, 2006, Huang et al., 2011, Huang et al., 2006, Huang and Siew, 2005, Huang et al., 2009, Jiang et al., 2011, Kubrusly and Levan, 2009, Le et al., 2011, Lhermitte et al., in press, Martínez-Martínez et al., 2011, Matlab, 2011, Nelson et al., 2002, Nejad and Zakeri, 2011, Tabib et al., 2009, Tang et al., 2011, which randomly choose hidden nodes and analytically determines the output weights of SLFNs, to eliminate the these disadvantages of feedforward networks for expert target recognition area. Then, the genetic algorithm (GA) stage is used for obtaining the feature extraction method and finding the optimum wavelet entropy parameter values. Herein, the optimal one of four variant feature extraction methods is obtained by using a genetic algorithm (GA). The four feature extraction methods proposed GAWELM model are discrete wavelet transform (DWT), discrete wavelet transform–short-time Fourier transform (DWT–STFT), discrete wavelet transform–Born–Jordan time–frequency transform (DWT–BJTFT), and discrete wavelet transform–Choi–Williams time–frequency transform (DWT–CWTFT). The discrete wavelet transform stage is performed for optimum feature extraction in the time–frequency domain. The discrete wavelet transform stage includes discrete wavelet transform and calculating of discrete wavelet entropies. The extreme learning machine (ELM) classifier is performed for evaluating the fitness function of the genetic algorithm and classification of radar targets. The performance of the developed GAWELM expert radar target recognition system is examined by using noisy real radar target echo signals. The applications results of the developed GAWELM expert radar target recognition system show that this GAWELM system is effective in rating real radar target echo signals. The correct classification rate of this GAWELM system is about 90% for radar target types used in this study.     

An expert system for automated recognition of patients with obstructive sleep apnea using electrocardiogram recordings

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a highly prevalent sleep disorder. The traditional diagnosis methods of the disorder are cumbersome and expensive. The ability to automatically identify OSA from electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings is important for clinical diagnosis and treatment. In this study, we proposed an expert system based on discrete wavelet transform (DWT), fast-Fourier transform (FFT) and least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) for the automatic recognition of patients with OSA from nocturnal ECG recordings. Thirty ECG recordings collected from normal subjects and subjects with sleep apnea, each of approximately 8 h in duration, were used throughout the study. The proposed OSA recognition system comprises three stages. In the first stage, an algorithm based on DWT was used to analyze ECG recordings for the detection of heart rate variability (HRV) and ECG-derived respiration (EDR) changes. In the second stage, an FFT based power spectral density (PSD) method was used for feature extraction from HRV and EDR changes. Then, a hill-climbing feature selection algorithm was used to identify the best features that improve classification performance. In the third stage, the obtained features were used as input patterns of the LS-SVM classifier. Using the cross-validation method, the accuracy of the developed system was found to be 100% for using a subset of selected combination of HRV and EDR features. The results confirmed that the proposed expert system has potential for recognition of patients with suspected OSA by using ECG recordings.     

Probabilistic neural networks combined with wavelet coefficients for analysis of electroencephalogram signals

Abstract: In this paper, the probabilistic neural network is presented for classification of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. Decision making is performed in two stages: feature extraction by wavelet transform and classification using the classifiers trained on the extracted features. The purpose is to determine an optimum classification scheme for this problem and also to infer clues about the extracted features. The present research demonstrates that the wavelet coefficients obtained by the wavelet transform are features which represent the EEG signals well. The conclusions indicate that the probabilistic neural network trained on the wavelet coefficients achieves high classification accuracies (the total classification accuracy is 97.63%).     

Automatic recognition of sleep spindles in EEG via radial basis support vector machine based on a modified feature selection algorithm

This paper presents an application of a radial basis support vector machine (RB-SVM) to the recognition of the sleep spindles (SSs) in electroencephalographic (EEG) signal. The proposed system comprises of two stages. In the first stage, for feature extraction, a set of raw amplitude values, a set of discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients, a set of discrete wavelet transform (DWT) approximation coefficients and a set of adaptive autoregressive (AAR) parameters are calculated and extracted from signals separately as four different sets of feature vectors. Thus, four different feature vectors for the same data are comparatively examined. In the second stage, these features are then selected by a modified adaptive feature selection method based on sensitivity analysis, which mainly supports input dimension reduction via selecting the most significant feature elements. Then, the feature vectors are classified by a support vector machine (SVM) classifier, which is relatively new and powerful technique for solving supervised binary classification problems due to its generalization ability. Visual evaluation, by two electroencephalographers (EEGers), of 19 channel EEG records of six subjects showed that the best performance is obtained with an RB-SVM providing an average sensitivity of 97.7%, an average specificity of 97.4% and an average accuracy of 97.5%.     

基于冗余离散小波变换的信号配准及分类

离散小波变换(Discrete wavelet transform,DWT)对输入信号的平移敏感,当输入信号间存在平移时,基于DWT的信号分类会受到负面影响.本文提出一种基于冗余离散小波变换(Redundant DWT,RDWT)的信号配准及分类方法,克服了DWT的平移敏感性,解决输入信号间存在平移变化的信号分类问题,...     

Statistics over features of ECG signals

This paper presented the usage of statistics over the set of the features representing the electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. Since classification is more accurate when the pattern is simplified through representation by important features, feature extraction and selection play an important role in classifying systems such as neural networks. Multilayer perceptron neural network (MLPNN) architectures were formulated and used as basis for detection of variabilities of the ECG signals. Four types of ECG beats (normal beat, congestive heart failure beat, ventricular tachyarrhythmia beat, atrial fibrillation beat) obtained from the Physiobank database were classified. The selected Lyapunov exponents, wavelet coefficients and the power levels of power spectral density (PSD) values obtained by eigenvector methods of the ECG signals were used as inputs of the MLPNN trained with Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm. The classification results confirmed that the proposed MLPNN has potential in detecting the variabilities of the ECG signals.     

sEMG信号采集电路设计及其特征提取算法

表面肌电(Surface electromyography,sEMG)信号直接、客观地反映了神经和肌肉的活动功能状态,已获得广泛应用。本文设计了一种sEMG信号采集电路并以单通道形式采集上肢5种动作的sEMG信号,经小波包变换提取6种特征(其中一种引自基于小波变换的特征提取方法)并分别结合PCA和KPCA进行处理;再分别用BP神经网络和SVM进行动作识别。此外,对比了小波变换的特征提取;讨论了KPCA与PCA在特征变换上的差异。所提取的基于小波包变换的6种特征有5种的识别率均超过95.7%,其中引入的高低频系数组合特征在BP神经网络下平均识别率超过99%。基于小波变换提取的5种特征经KPCA变换后也达到较高的识别率。实验结果表明,本文的sEMG信号采集方法及其特征提取方法均达到较好效果。     

基于样本熵和模式识别的脑电信号识别算法研究

脑-机接口BCI是一种实现人脑和外部设备通信的新兴技术。基于时频特性进行特征提取的传统方法无法体现EEG信号的非线性特征。为了进一步提高分类的准确率,首先采用小波阈值降噪的预处理方法提高了EEG信号的信噪比。然后结合非线性动力学的样本熵参数,对3种想象运动的脑电信号进行特征提取,保留了脑电信号的非线性特征。其中,运动想象MI脑电信号的研究一直都是BCI这一高速发展领域的重点目标。还研究了支持向量机、LVQ神经网络和BP神经网络3种分类器。通过实验结果对比发现,BP神经网络具有较高的识别率,更适用于脑电信号的分类识别。     

Adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system for diagnosis of the heart valve diseases using wavelet transform with entropy

Listening via stethoscope is a preferential method, being used by physicians for distinguishing normal and abnormal cardiac systems. On the other hand, listening with stethoscope has a number of constraints. The interpretation of various heart sounds depends on physician’s ability of hearing, experience, and skill. Such limitations may be reduced by developing biomedical-based decision support systems. In this study, a biomedical-based decision support system was developed for the classification of heart sound signals, obtained from 120 subjects with normal, pulmonary, and mitral stenosis heart valve diseases via stethoscope. Developed system comprises of three stages. In the first stage, for feature extraction, obtained heart sound signals were separated to its sub-bands using discrete wavelet transform (DWT). In the second stage, entropy of each sub-band was calculated using Shannon entropy algorithm to reduce the dimensionality of the feature vectors via DWT. In the third stage, the reduced features of three types of heart sound signals were used as input patterns of the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) classifiers. Developed method reached 98.33% classification accuracy, and it was showed that purposed method is effective for detection of heart valve diseases.     

基于HHT运动想象脑电模式识别研究

脑机接口是一种变革性的人机交互, 其中基于运动想象(Motor imagery, MI)脑电的脑机接口是一类非常重要的脑机交互. 本文旨在探索有效的运动想象脑电特征模式提取方法. 采用在时域、频域同时具有很高分辨率的希尔伯特--黄变换(Hilbert-Huang transform, HHT),进而提取自回归(Auto regressive, AR)模型参数并计算运动想象脑电平均瞬时能量,从而构造特征向量, 最后利用能较好地适应运动想象脑电单次试验分类的支持向量机(Support vector machine, SVM)进行分类. 结果表明在Trial的5.5～7.5s期间, HHT特征提取方法平均分类正确率为81.08%, 具有良好的适应性;最高分类正确率为87.86%, 优于传统的小波变换特征提取方法和未经HHT的特征提取方法;在Trial的8～9s期间, HHT特征提取方法显著优于后两种特征提取方法. 本研究证实了HHT对运动想象脑电这一非平稳非线性信号具有很好的特征提取能力, 也再次验证了运动想象事件相关去同步(Event-related desynchronization, ERD)现象, 同时也表明运动想象脑电的脑--机交互系统性能与被试想象心理活动的质量密切相关. 本文可望为基于运动想象脑电的在线实时脑机交互控制系统的研究打下坚实的基础.     

Feature saliency using signal-to-noise ratios in automated diagnostic systems developed for ECG beats

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been used in a great number of medical diagnostic decision support system applications and within feedforward ANNs framework there are a number of established measures such as saliency measures for identifying important input features. By identifying a set of salient features, the noise in a classification model can be reduced, resulting in more accurate classification. In this study, a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) saliency measure was employed to determine saliency of input features of multilayer perceptron neural networks (MLPNNs) used in classification of electrocardiogram (ECG) beats (normal beat, congestive heart failure beat, ventricular tachyarrhythmia beat, atrial fibrillation beat) obtained from the Physiobank database. The SNR saliency measure determines the saliency of a feature by comparing it to that of an injected noise feature and the SNR screening method utilizes the SNR saliency measure to select a parsimonious set of salient features. ECG signals were decomposed into time–frequency representations using discrete wavelet transform. Input feature vectors were extracted using statistics over the set of the wavelet coefficients. The MLPNNs used in the ECG beats-classification were trained for the SNR screening method. The application results of the SNR screening method to the ECG signals demonstrated that classification accuracies of the MLPNNs with salient input features are higher than that of the MLPNNs with salient and non-salient input features.     

Classification of EEG signals using neural network and logistic regression

Epileptic seizures are manifestations of epilepsy. Careful analyses of the electroencephalograph (EEG) records can provide valuable insight and improved understanding of the mechanisms causing epileptic disorders. The detection of epileptiform discharges in the EEG is an important component in the diagnosis of epilepsy. As EEG signals are non-stationary, the conventional method of frequency analysis is not highly successful in diagnostic classification. This paper deals with a novel method of analysis of EEG signals using wavelet transform and classification using artificial neural network (ANN) and logistic regression (LR). Wavelet transform is particularly effective for representing various aspects of non-stationary signals such as trends, discontinuities and repeated patterns where other signal processing approaches fail or are not as effective. Through wavelet decomposition of the EEG records, transient features are accurately captured and localized in both time and frequency context. In epileptic seizure classification we used lifting-based discrete wavelet transform (LBDWT) as a preprocessing method to increase the computational speed. The proposed algorithm reduces the computational load of those algorithms that were based on classical wavelet transform (CWT). In this study, we introduce two fundamentally different approaches for designing classification models (classifiers) the traditional statistical method based on logistic regression and the emerging computationally powerful techniques based on ANN. Logistic regression as well as multilayer perceptron neural network (MLPNN) based classifiers were developed and compared in relation to their accuracy in classification of EEG signals. In these methods we used LBDWT coefficients of EEG signals as an input to classification system with two discrete outputs: epileptic seizure or non-epileptic seizure. By identifying features in the signal we want to provide an automatic system that will support a physician in the diagnosing process. By applying LBDWT in connection with MLPNN, we obtained novel and reliable classifier architecture. The comparisons between the developed classifiers were primarily based on analysis of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves as well as a number of scalar performance measures pertaining to the classification. The MLPNN based classifier outperformed the LR based counterpart. Within the same group, the MLPNN based classifier was more accurate than the LR based classifier.     

基于小波包分析的经络心电信号熵特征提取

为研究人体经络特征,提出了基于小波包分析的经络穴位心电信号熵特征提取的方法。首先通过建立经络检测实验采集了经络测试点的心电信号,然后采用小波包对经络心电信号进行三层分解,并根据重构后的心电信号提取经络穴位的熵特征。同时采用了K-means和模糊C均值聚类方法实现了穴位点和非穴位点的有效分类。研究结果表明经络上穴位点心电信号的能量熵明显大于非穴位点的熵值,并且这一特征可以作为区分经络穴位点和非穴位点的有力科学依据。