Investigation of Short-Term Changes in Visual Evoked Potentials With Windowed Adaptive Chirplet Transform

We propose a new application of the adaptive chirplet transform that involves partitioning signals into non-overlapping sequential segments. From these segments, the local time-frequency structures of the signal are estimated by using a four-parameter chirplet decomposition. Entitled the windowed adaptive chirplet transform (windowed ACT), this approach is applied to the analysis of visual evoked potentials (VEPs). It can provide a unified and compact representation of VEPs from the transient buildup to the steady-state portion with less computational cost than its non-windowed counterpart. This paper also details a method to select the optimal window length for signal segmentation. This approach will be useful for long-term signal monitoring as well as for signal feature extraction and data compression.

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