OBJECTIVES: Our main objective was to propose an alternative to the technique of signal averaging (SA) to avoid shape distortions due to jittering and scale fluctuations, leading to a mean shape signal rather than to an average one. METHODS: In case of both time shift and time scale fluctuations of the individual signals, the first point was to show what model makes it possible to interpret their expected action as a linear shift invariant filter followed by a scale invariant one...
Keywords: Signal averaging, shape averaging, jitter, scale fluctuation
01/2004 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer