Time-frequency distributions applied to uterine EMG: Characterization and assessment

Time Frequency and Wavelets in Biomedical Signal Processing

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 117-146

  Duchêne, Jacques ^a   Devedeux, Dominique ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Autoregressive processes; Electromyography; Firing; Frequency modulation; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 4244065652     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1109/9780470546697.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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