Analysis of the characteristics of gastrointestinal motility based on Hilbert-Huang transform method

摘要

Pressure activity data as an important index of gastrointestinal(GI)motility can be obtained from thewireless radiotelemetry capsule.The Hilbert-Huang transform(HHT)method,whieh is more effective toprocess non-stationary signal,is proposed to identify the characteristics of GI motility.We decompose thepressure activity data into intrinsic mode functions(IMFs),calculate the Hilbert marginal spectrum andattain the peristalsis characteristics of GI tract.The IMFs represent the peristalses modes of GI tract activ-ity embedded in the pressure data.The time-varying characteristic of the method suggests that the HI-IT issuitable to aeeommodate other non-stationary biomedical data analysis.