Idle Tone Detection in Biomedical Signals Using Time-Frequency Techniques

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Abstract

Sigma Delta based biomedical acquisition systems are popular amongst the possible hardware architectures developed for this purpose. It allows for the creation of high-resolution low power and cost-effective universal systems, where oversampling is used with the advantage of the associated simplified anti-alias filter design. However, spurious idle tone generation is commonly present, whose location in frequency and amplitude are not predictable. Despite their amplitude being typically low, in some applications it may tamper with the signal processing parameters. In the ECG, EMG and EEG processing, idle tones may degrade frequency energy content. Given the non-stationary nature of biomedical signals, time-frequency analysis is the adequate tool for idle tone detection due to its dual representation which includes time localization. The spectrogram along with other quadratic time-frequency representations (QTFR) are applied for idle tone analysis where QTFR’s show to have appealing frequency resolution capabilities under low cross terms amplitude conditions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTechnological Innovation for Life Improvement - 11th IFIP WG 5.5/SOCOLNET Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2020, Proceedings
EditorsLuis M. Camarinha-Matos, Nastaran Farhadi, Fábio Lopes, Helena Pereira
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer
Pages445-453
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-45124-0
ISBN (Print)978-3-030-45123-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Event11th Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2020 - Costa de Caparica, Portugal
Duration: 1 Jul 20203 Jul 2020

Publication series

NameIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
PublisherSpringer
Volume577
ISSN (Print)1868-4238
ISSN (Electronic)1868-422X

Conference

Conference11th Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2020
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityCosta de Caparica
Period1/07/203/07/20

Keywords

  • Idle tones
  • Time-frequency analysis
  • Wavelets

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