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Quantifying the complexity of human colonic pressure signals using an entropy measure

  • Fei Xu EMAIL logo , Guozheng Yan , Kai Zhao , Li Lu , Zhiwu Wang and Jinyang Gao
Published/Copyright: June 4, 2015

Abstract

Studying the complexity of human colonic pressure signals is important in understanding this intricate, evolved, dynamic system. This article presents a method for quantifying the complexity of colonic pressure signals using an entropy measure. As a self-adaptive non-stationary signal analysis algorithm, empirical mode decomposition can decompose a complex pressure signal into a set of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). Considering that IMF2, IMF3, and IMF4 represent crucial characteristics of colonic motility, a new signal was reconstructed with these three signals. Then, the time entropy (TE), power spectral entropy (PSE), and approximate entropy (AE) of the reconstructed signal were calculated. For subjects with constipation and healthy individuals, experimental results showed that the entropies of reconstructed signals between these two classes were distinguishable. Moreover, the TE, PSE, and AE can be extracted as features for further subject classification.


Corresponding author: Fei Xu, Department of Instrument Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Dongchuan Road, No. 800, Minhang District, Shanghai, China, Phone: +8618818212278, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract 31170968. This work was supported by the Advanced Research Foundation of Manned Spaceflight under contract 010203. This work was supported in part by the Shanghai Committee of Science and Technology under contract 09DZ1907400.

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Received: 2015-2-5
Accepted: 2015-4-17
Published Online: 2015-6-4
Published in Print: 2016-2-1

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