Applying novel time-frequency moments singular value decomposition method and artificial neural networks for ballistocardiography

  • Authors:

  • Alireza Akhbardeh;Sakari Junnila;Mikko Koivuluoma;Teemu Koivistoinen;Alpo Värri

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute of Signal processing, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland;Institute of Signal processing, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland;Institute of Signal processing, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland;Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Tampere University Hospital, Teiskontie, Tampere, Finland;Institute of Signal processing, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

As we know, singular value decomposition (SVD) is designed for computing singular values (SVs) of a matrix. Then, if it is used for finding SVs of an m-by-1 or 1-by-m array with elements representing samples of a signal, it will return only one singular value that is not enough to express the whole signal. To overcome this problem, we designed a new kind of the feature extraction method which we call "time-frequency moments singular value decomposition (TFM-SVD)." In this new method, we use statistical features of time series as well as frequency series (Fourier transform of the signal). This information is then extracted into a certain matrix with a fixed structure and the SVs of that matrix are sought. This transform can be used as a preprocessing stage in pattern clustering methods. The results in using it indicate that the performance of a combined system including this transform and classifiers is comparable with the performance of using other feature extraction methods such as wavelet transforms. To evaluate TFM-SVD, we applied this new method and artificial neural networks (ANNs) for ballistocardiogram (BCG) data clustering to look for probable heart disease of six test subjects. BCG from the test subjects was recorded using a chair-like ballistocardiograph, developed in our project. This kind of device combined with automated recording and analysis would be suitable for use in many places, such as home, office, and so forth. The results show that the method has high performance and it is almost insensitive to BCG waveform latency or nonlinear disturbance.