Chirplet Signal and Empirical Mode Decompositions of Ultrasonic Signals for Echo Detection and Estimation

• 作者: Erdal Oruklu Jafar Saniie Yufeng Lu
• 来源期刊: 信号与信息处理(英文)
• 学科: 工学
• 关键词: Ultrasound HILBERT TIME-FREQUENCY Representation Empirical Mode DECOMPOSITION CHIRPLET SIGNAL DECOMPOSITION Detection ESTIMATION
• 年，卷（期）: 2013,（2）
• 页码范围: 149-157
• 页数: 9页
• 分类号: TN91

摘要

In this study, the performance of chirplet signal decomposition (CSD) and empirical mode decomposition (EMD) coupled with Hilbert spectrum have been evaluated and compared for ultrasonic imaging applications. Numerical and experimental results indicate that both the EMD and CSD are able to decompose sparsely distributed chirplets from noise. In case of signals consisting of multiple interfering chirplets, the CSD algorithm, based on successive search for estimating optimal chirplet parameters, outperforms the EMD algorithm which estimates a series of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). In particular, we have utilized the EMD as a signal conditioning method for Hilbert time-frequency representation in order to estimate the arrival time and center frequency of chirplets in order to quantify the ultrasonic signals. Experimental results clearly exhibit that the combined EMD and CSD is an effective processing tools to analyze ultrasonic signals for target detection and pattern recognition.