Female sexual responses using signal processing techniques

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3086-3096

  Rafiee, Javad ^a   Rafiee, Mohammad A ^a   Michaelsen, Diane ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Daubechies 44; Erotic video; Feature extraction; Female sexual arousal; Female sexual responses; Movement artifact detection; Psychophysio signal processing; Time series analysis; Time frequency analysis; Vaginal blood flow change rate; Vaginal photoplethysmography; Vaginal pulse amplitude; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; EROTISM; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONITORING; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VAGINAL PULSE AMPLITUDE; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 70649100243     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2009.001452.x     Document Type: Article

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