CBM335 Biosignal Processing Syllabus:

CBM335 Biosignal Processing Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

OBJECTIVES:

The student should be made to:
 To study the characteristics of different biosignals
 To learn linear and non-linear filtering techniques to extract desired information
 To understand various techniques for automated classification and decision making to aid diagnosis

UNIT I BIOSIGNAL AND SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS

Characteristics of some dynamic biomedical signals, Noises- random, structured and physiological noises. Filters- IIR and FIR filters. Spectrum – power spectral density function, cross-spectral density and coherence function, cepstrum and homomorphic filtering. Estimation of mean of finite time signals.

UNIT II TIME SERIES ANALYSIS AND SPECTRAL ESTIMATION

Time series analysis – linear prediction models, process order estimation, lattice representation, non-stationary process, fixed segmentation, adaptive segmentation, application in EEG, PCG signals, Time varying analysis of Heart-rate variability, model based ECG simulator. Spectral estimation –Blackman Tukey method, periodogram, and model based estimation. Application in Heart rate variability, PCG signals.

UNIT III ADAPTIVE FILTERING AND WAVELET DETECTION

Filtering – LMS adaptive filter, adaptive noise canceling in ECG, improved adaptive filtering in ECG, Wavelet detection in ECG – structural features, matched filtering, adaptive wavelet detection, detection of overlapping wavelets.

UNIT IV BIOSIGNAL CLASSIFICATION AND RECOGNITION

Signal classification and recognition – Statistical signal classification, linear discriminant function, direct feature selection and ordering, Back propagation neural network based classification. Application in Normal versus Ectopic ECG beats.

UNIT V TIME FREQUENCY AND MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS

Time frequency representation, spectrogram, Wigner distribution, Time-scale representation, scalogram, wavelet analysis – Data reduction techniques, ECG data compression, ECG characterization, Feature extraction- Wavelet packets, Multivariate component analysis-PCA,ICA.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

On successful completion of this course, the student will be able to
CO1: Preprocess the Biosignals.
CO2: Analyze biosignals in time domain & to estimate the spectrum.
CO3: Apply wavelet detection techniques for biosignal processing.
CO4: Classify Biosignals using neural networks and statistical classifiers.
CO5: Extract the features using multivariate component analysis.

TOTAL PERIODS:45

TEXT BOOKS

1. Rangaraj M. Rangayyan, “Biomedical Signal Analysis-A case study approach”, Wiley, 2nd Edition, 2016.
2. Willis J. Tompkins, “Biomedical Digital Signal Processing”, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi, 2003.
3. Arnon Cohen, “Bio-Medical Signal Processing Vol I and Vol II”, CRC Press Inc., Boca Rato, Florida, 1999.

REFERENCES

1. Kayvan Najarian and Robert Splerstor, “Biomedical signals and Image processing’’, CRC – Taylor and Francis, New York, 2nd Edition, 2012.
2. K.P.Soman, K.Ramachandran, “Insight into wavelet from theory to practice”, PHI, New Delhi, 3rd Edition, 2010.
3. D.C.Reddy, “Biomedical Signal Processing – Principles and Techniques’’, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Ltd, 2005.
4. John L.Semmlow, “Biosignal and Biomedical Image Processing Matlab Based applications’’, Taylor& Francis Inc, 2004.