Wavelet-based noise removal for biomechanical signals: A comparative study

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 360-368

  Wachowiak, Mark P ^a   Rash, Gregory S ^a   Quesada, Peter M ^a   Desoky, Ahmed H ^a  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Filtering; Multiresolution signal processing; Smoothing; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BIOMECHANICAL SIGNALS; MULTIRESOLUTION SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVELET BASED NOISE REMOVAL TECHNIQUES; WAVELETS;

BIOMECHANICS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FILTER; NOISE REDUCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARM; ARTIFACTS; BIOMECHANICS; HAND; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0034011184     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.827298     Document Type: Article

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