Enhancement of Explosive Bowel Sounds Using Kurtosis-based Filtering

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 2479-2482

  Hadjileontiadis, Leontios J ^a   Rekanos, Ioannis T ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SERRES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Detection; Explosive bowel sounds; Kurtosis; Non Gaussianity; Nonstationarity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DETECTORS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PATHOLOGY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXPLOSIVE BOWEL SOUNDS (EBS); KURTOSIS; NON-GAUSSIANITY; NONSTATIONARITY;

GASTROENTEROLOGY;

EID: 1542330932     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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