scholarly journals Evaluating three different adaptive decomposition methods for EEG signal seizure detection and classification

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinícius R. Carvalho ◽  
Márcio F.D. Moraes ◽  
Antônio P. Braga ◽  
Eduardo M.A.M. Mendes

AbstractSignal processing and machine learning methods are valuable tools in epilepsy research, potentially assisting in diagnosis, seizure detection, prediction and real-time event detection during long term monitoring. Recent approaches involve the decomposition of these signals in different modes or functions in a data-dependent and adaptive way. These approaches may provide advantages over commonly used Fourier based methods due to their ability to work with nonlinear and non-stationary data. In this work, three adaptive decomposition methods (Empirical Mode Decomposition, Empirical Wavelet Transform and Variational Mode Decomposition) are evaluated for the classification of normal, ictal and inter-ictal EEG signals using a freely available database. We provide a previously unavailable common methodology for comparing the performance of these methods for EEG seizure detection, with the use of the same classifiers, parameters and spectral and time domain features. It is shown that the outcomes using the three methods are quite similar, with maximum accuracies of 97.5% for Empirical Mode Decomposition, 96.7% for Empirical Wavelet Transform and 98.2% for Variational Mode Decomposition. Features were also extracted from the original non-decomposed signals, yielding inferior, but still fairly accurate (95.3%) results. The evaluated decomposition methods are promising approaches for seizure detection, but their use should be judiciously analysed, especially in situations that require real-time processing and computational power is an issue. An additional methodological contribution of this work is the development of two python packages, already available at the PyPI repository: One for the Empirical Wavelet Transform (ewtpy) and another for Variational Mode Decomposition (vmdpy).

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 229-240
Author(s):  
Jianwei Zhang ◽  
Ge Hou ◽  
Han Wang ◽  
Yu Zhao ◽  
Jinlin Huang

Operation feature extraction of flood discharge structures under ambient excitation has attracted increasing attention in recent years. However, the vibration signal of flood discharge structures is a nonstationary random signal with low signal-to-noise ratio, which is mixed with lots of low-frequency water flow noise and high-frequency white noise. It is difficult to excavate the hidden vibration characteristic information accurately. To solve the problem, we propose a novel denoising method called improved variational mode decomposition. As an improved method of variational mode decomposition, improved variational mode decomposition can effectively determine the decomposition mode number of variational mode decomposition by using the mutual information method. Furthermore, improved variational mode decomposition is combined with a variance dedication rate to extract the overall operation characteristic information of the structure. In order to evaluate the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed improved variational mode decomposition–variance dedication rate method, we compare the denoising results of simulation signals produced by an improved variational mode decomposition–variance dedication rate with those produced by digital filter, wavelet threshold, empirical mode decomposition, empirical wavelet transform, complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise, and improved variational mode decomposition methods and find a better performance of the improved variational mode decomposition–variance dedication rate method. In addition, the proposed method is applied to the Three Gorges Dam, and the results show that the improved variational mode decomposition–variance dedication rate method can effectively remove heavy background noises and extract the operation characteristic information of the flood discharge structure, which contributes to health monitoring and damage identification of the flood discharge structure.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 582-587
Author(s):  
Omkar Singh

This paper presents the efficacy of empirical wavelet transform (EWT) for physiological time series processing. At first, EWT is applied to multivariate heterogeneous physiological time series. Secondly, EWT is used for the removal of fast temporal scales in multiscale entropy analysis. Empirical mode decomposition is an adaptive data analysis method in the sense that it does not require prior information about the signal statistics and tend to decompose a signal into various constituent modes. The utility of Standard EMD algorithm is however limited to single channel data as it suffers from the problems of mode alignment and mode mixing when applied channel wise for multivariate data. The standard EMD algorithm was extended to multivariate Empirical mode decomposition (MEMD) that can be used analyze a multivariate data. The MEMD can only be applied to multivariate data in which all the channels have equal data length. EWT is another adaptive technique for mode extraction in a signal using empirical scaling and wavelet functions. The multiscale entropy (MSE) algorithm is generally used to quantify the complexity of a time series. The original MSE approach utilizes a coarse-graining process for the removal of fast temporal scales in a time series which is equivalent to applying a finite impulse response (FIR) moving average filter. In Refined Multiscale entropy (RMSE), the FIR filter was replaced with a low pass Butterworth filter which exhibits a better frequency response than that of a FIR filter. In this paper we have presented a new approach for the removal of fast temporal scales based on empirical wavelet transform. The empirical wavelet transform is also used as an innovative filtering approach in multiscale entropy analysis.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1018
Author(s):  
Chao Song ◽  
Xiaohong Chen

It has become increasingly difficult in recent years to predict precipitation scientifically and accurately due to the dual effects of human activities and climatic conditions. This paper focuses on four aspects to improve precipitation prediction accuracy. Five decomposition methods (time-varying filter-based empirical mode decomposition (TVF-EMD), robust empirical mode decomposition (REMD), complementary ensemble empirical mode decomposition (CEEMD), wavelet transform (WT), and extreme-point symmetric mode decomposition (ESMD) combined with the Elman neural network (ENN)) are used to construct five prediction models, i.e., TVF-EMD-ENN, REMD-ENN, CEEMD-ENN, WT-ENN, and ESMD-ENN. The variance contribution rate (VCR) and Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC) are utilized to compare the performances of the five decomposition methods. The wavelet transform coherence (WTC) is used to determine the reason for the poor prediction performance of machine learning algorithms in individual years and the relationship with climate indicators. A secondary decomposition of the TVF-EMD is used to improve the prediction accuracy of the models. The proposed methods are used to predict the annual precipitation in Guangzhou. The subcomponents obtained from the TVF-EMD are the most stable among the four decomposition methods, and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index, the Nino 3.4 index, and sunspots have a smaller influence on the first subcomponent (Sc-1) than the other subcomponents. The TVF-EMD-ENN model has the best prediction performance and outperforms traditional machine learning models. The secondary decomposition of the Sc-1 of the TVF-EMD model significantly improves the prediction accuracy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 665-675
Author(s):  
Zhitao He ◽  
Haiyang Zhang ◽  
Jun Wang ◽  
Xin Jin ◽  
Song Gao ◽  
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Highlights A method of monitoring the working conditions of a slideway seedling-picking mechanism based on variational mode decomposition (VMD), envelope entropy, and energy entropy is proposed. Based on the criterion of envelope entropy minimization, the combination of the decomposition layer number and penalty factor in VMD is optimized to yield a satisfactory decomposition effect of the analyzed vibration signal. The BP-AdaBoost algorithm is used to improve the working condition classification performance for the slideway seedling-picking mechanism. The working-condition identification effect with the proposed method are compared with those through EMD-based, LMD-based, and EEMD-based methods. Abstract . The slideway seedling-picking mechanism is a type of rotating machinery. This study proposes a novel method of identifying the working conditions of slideway seedling-picking mechanisms for early fault diagnosis by utilizing a back-propagation adaptive boosting (BP-AdaBoost) algorithm based on variational mode decomposition (VMD) optimized by the envelope entropy. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively verify the four working conditions (normal state, slideway failure, cam failure, and spring failure). The overall recognition accuracy reaches 90.0% under the optimal combination of the decomposition layer number K and penalty factor a in VMD determined through the envelope entropy minimization criterion. Classification comparisons with empirical mode decomposition (EMD), local mean decomposition (LMD) and ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) integrated into the BP-AdaBoost algorithm indicate that the overall recognition accuracy of the proposed method is 18.1%, 16.9%, and 15.6% higher than the accuracies of the three conventional methods, respectively. Compared with the K-means, support vector machine (SVM) algorithms, BP-AdaBoost algorithm demonstrates a more dependable capability for identifying the working conditions. This study provides a useful reference for monitoring the working conditions of slideway seedling-picking mechanisms. Keywords: BP-AdaBoost algorithm, Energy entropy, Envelope entropy, Slideway seedling-picking mechanism, Variational mode decomposition, Working conditions.


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