Spike detection in human muscle sympathetic nerve activity using the kurtosis of stationary wavelet transform coefficients

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 359-367

  Brychta, Robert J ^a,b   Shiavi, Richard ^b   Robertson, David ^a   Diedrich, André ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Higher order statistics; Humans; Muscle sympathetic nerve activity; Spike detection; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SPIKE; SPIKE WAVE; STATIONARY WAVELET TRANSFORM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BLOOD VESSELS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 33846897380     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2006.09.020     Document Type: Article

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