Abstract
Background
This article proposes an extension of empirical wavelet transform (EWT) algorithm for multivariate signals specifically applied to cardiovascular physiological signals.
Materials and methods
EWT is a newly proposed algorithm for extracting the modes in a signal and is based on the design of an adaptive wavelet filter bank. The proposed algorithm finds an optimum signal in the multivariate data set based on mode estimation strategy and then its corresponding spectra is segmented and utilized for extracting the modes across all the channels of the data set.
Results
The proposed algorithm is able to find the common oscillatory modes within the multivariate data and can be applied for multichannel heterogeneous data analysis having unequal number of samples in different channels. The proposed algorithm was tested on different synthetic multivariate data and a real physiological trivariate data series of electrocardiogram, respiration, and blood pressure to justify its validation.
Conclusions
In this article, the EWT is extended for multivariate signals and it was demonstrated that the component-wise processing of multivariate data leads to the alignment of common oscillating modes across the components.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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