title: Source separation from single-channel recordings by combining empirical-mode decomposition and independent component analysis.
abstract: In biomedical signal processing, it is often the case that many sources are mixed into the measured signal. The goal is usually to analyze one or several of them separately. In the case of multichannel measurements, several blind source separation techniques are available for decomposing the signal into its components [e.g., independent component analysis (ICA)]. However, only a few techniques have been reported for analyses of single-channel recordings. Examples are single-channel ICA (SCICA) and wavelet-ICA (WICA), which all have certain limitations. In this paper, we propose a new method for a single-channel signal decomposition. This method combines empirical-mode decomposition with ICA. We compare the separation performance of our algorithm with SCICA and WICA through simulations, and we show that our method outperforms the other two, especially for high noise-to-signal ratios. The performance of the new algorithm was also demonstrated in two real-life applications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, SISTA-COSIC-DOCARCH Division, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven 3001, Belgium. bogdan.mijovic@esat.kuleuven.be
authors.forename: Bogdan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mijović
authors.forename: Maarten
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Vos
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gligorijević
authors.forename: Joachim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Taelman
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Van Huffel
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted