Biological signals analysis: A proposal of methods for quantifying patterns in biological signals.

摘要

This thesis considers the problems involved in the analysis of biological signals and suggests that the goal of such analyses should be a unique representation of the biological signal.;To support the proposal hardware implementations and digital computer simulations were carried out investigating certain aspects of the system.;It was found that if a biological signal, which is basically periodic in nature, can be segmented accurately into its fundamental periods, a precise quantitative description of the signal can be achieved.;A proposal is made for a system which attempts to reach this goal by representing characteristic patterns or waveforms in biological signals quantitatively with a set of parameters derived from a Fourier series representation of the patterns.