On the Foundation of Prony's Method

Slivinskas, Vytautas; Šimonytė, Virginija

doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-033452-3.50025-9

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“…Not all mathematical signals can be approximated using Prony’s method [ 33 ] and computational finite arithmetic also generates errors. Consequently, the results of computational implementation of the Prony methods depend on the characteristics and number of points of the signal to be interpolated, on the p number of functions and on the use of computational procedures not susceptible to ill-conditioning issues.…”

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Coding Prony’s method in MATLAB and applying it to biomedical signal filtering

et al. 2018

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BackgroundThe response of many biomedical systems can be modelled using a linear combination of damped exponential functions. The approximation parameters, based on equally spaced samples, can be obtained using Prony’s method and its variants (e.g. the matrix pencil method). This paper provides a tutorial on the main polynomial Prony and matrix pencil methods and their implementation in MATLAB and analyses how they perform with synthetic and multifocal visual-evoked potential (mfVEP) signals.This paper briefly describes the theoretical basis of four polynomial Prony approximation methods: classic, least squares (LS), total least squares (TLS) and matrix pencil method (MPM). In each of these cases, implementation uses general MATLAB functions. The features of the various options are tested by approximating a set of synthetic mathematical functions and evaluating filtering performance in the Prony domain when applied to mfVEP signals to improve diagnosis of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).ResultsThe code implemented does not achieve 100%-correct signal approximation and, of the methods tested, LS and MPM perform best. When filtering mfVEP records in the Prony domain, the value of the area under the receiver-operating-characteristic (ROC) curve is 0.7055 compared with 0.6538 obtained with the usual filtering method used for this type of signal (discrete Fourier transform low-pass filter with a cut-off frequency of 35 Hz).ConclusionsThis paper reviews Prony’s method in relation to signal filtering and approximation, provides the MATLAB code needed to implement the classic, LS, TLS and MPM methods, and tests their performance in biomedical signal filtering and function approximation. It emphasizes the importance of improving the computational methods used to implement the various methods described above.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%