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    Denoising embolic Doppler ultrasound signals using Dual Tree Complex Discrete Wavelet Transform
    (2010) Serbes, Görkem; Aydın, Nizamettin; Serbes, Görkem, Department of Electrical Engineering, Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey; Aydın, Nizamettin, Department of Computer Engineering, Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey
    Early and accurate detection of asymptomatic emboli is important for monitoring of preventive therapy in stroke-prone patients. One of the problems in detection of emboli is the identification of an embolic signal caused by very small emboli. The amplitude of the embolic signal may be so small that advanced processing methods are required to distinguish these signals from Doppler signals arising from red blood cells. In this study instead of conventional discrete wavelet transform, the Dual Tree Complex Discrete Wavelet Transform was used for denoising embolic signals. Performances of both approaches were compared. Unlike the conventional discrete wavelet transform discrete complex wavelet transform is a shift invariant transform with limited redundancy. Results demonstrate that the Dual Tree Complex Discrete Wavelet Transform based denoising outperforms conventional discrete wavelet denoising. Approximately 8 dB improvement is obtained by using the Dual Tree Complex Discrete Wavelet Transform compared to the improvement provided by the conventional Discrete Wavelet Transform (less than 5 dB). © 2010 IEEE. © 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Symmetrical modified dual tree complex wavelet transform for processing quadrature Doppler ultrasound signals
    (2011) Serbes, Görkem; Aydın, Nizamettin; Serbes, Görkem, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey; Aydın, Nizamettin, Department of Computer Engineering, Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey
    Dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DTCWT), which is a shift invariant transform with limited redundancy, is an improved version of discrete wavelet transform. Complex quadrature signals are dual channel signals obtained from the systems employing quadrature demodulation. An example of such signals is quadrature Doppler signal obtained from blood flow analysis systems. Prior to processing Doppler signals using the DTCWT, directional flow signals must be obtained and then two separate DTCWT applied, increasing the computational complexity. In this study, in order to decrease computational complexity, a symmetrical modified DTCWT algorithm is proposed (SMDTCWT). A comparison between the new transform and the symmetrical phasing-filter technique is presented. Additionally denoising performance of SMDTCWT is compared with the DWT and the DTCWT using simulated signals. The results show that the proposed method gives the same output as the symmetrical phasing-filter method, the computational complexity for processing quadrature signals using DTCWT is greatly reduced and finally the SMDTCWT based denoising outperforms conventional DWT with same computational complexity. © 2011 IEEE. © 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Feature extraction using time-frequency/scale analysis and ensemble of feature sets for crackle detection
    (2011) Serbes, Görkem; Sakar, C. Okan; Kahya, Yasemin Palanduz; Aydın, Nizamettin; Serbes, Görkem, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey; Sakar, C. Okan, Department of Computer Engineering, Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey; Kahya, Yasemin Palanduz, Department of Electrical Engineering, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, Bebek, Turkey; Aydın, Nizamettin, Department of Computer Engineering, Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey
    Pulmonary crackles are used as indicators for the diagnosis of different pulmonary disorders. Crackles are very common adventitious sounds which have transient characteristic. From the characteristics of crackles such as timing and number of occurrences, the type and the severity of the pulmonary diseases can be obtained. In this study, a novel method is proposed for crackle detection. In this method, various feature sets are extracted using time-frequency and time-scale analysis. The extracted feature sets are fed into support vector machines both individually and as an ensemble of networks. Besides, as a preprocessing stage in order to improve the success of the model, frequency bands containing no-information are removed using dual tree complex wavelet transform, which is a shift invariant transform with limited redundancy and an improved version of discrete wavelet transform. The comparative results of individual feature sets and ensemble of sets with pre-processed and non pre-processed data are proposed. © 2011 IEEE. © 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.