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Original Article

Real time continuous wavelet transform implementation on a DSP processor

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Pages 223-231 | Published online: 09 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

The continuous wavelet transform (CWT) is an effective tool when the emphasis is on the analysis of non-stationary signals and on localization and characterization of singularities in signals. We have used the B-spline based CWT, the Lipschitz Exponent (LE) and measures derived from it to detect and quantify the singularity characteristics of biomedical signals. In this article, a real-time implementation of a B-spline based CWT on a digital signal processor is presented, with the aim of providing quantitative information about the signal to a clinician as it is being recorded. A recursive algorithm implementation was shown to be too slow for real-time implementation so a parallel algorithm was considered. The use of a parallel algorithm involves redundancy in calculations at the boundary points. An optimization of numerical computation to remove redundancy in calculation was carried out. A formula has been derived to give an exact operation count for any integer scale m and any B-spline of order n (for the case where n is odd) to calculate the CWT for both the original and the optimized parallel methods. Experimental results show that the optimized method is 20–28% faster than the original method. As an example of applying this optimized method, a real-time implementation of the CWT with LE postprocessing has been achieved for an EMG Interference Pattern signal sampled at 50 kHz.

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