Welcome to pyeemd’s documentation!¶

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Installing pyeemd¶

The pyeemd module comes with a regular Python distutils installation script, so installing it should be quite straightforward. The only catch is that you need to first compile libeemd.so, since pyeemd is only a wrapper for that library. Please see the README file distributed with libeemd on more details on how to compile libeemd, but if you are unpatient and already have the necessary dependencies installed (GCC, GSL), you can just run make in the top-level directory of libeemd and you are done.

To install pyeemd please run:

python2 setup.py install

In the top-level directory of pyeemd (the one with setup.py).

If you want to specify an alternative installation prefix, you can do it as follows:

python2 setup.py install --prefix=$HOME/usr

Tutorial¶

After installing pyeemd as described in Installing pyeemd you are all set to using it with:

import pyeemd

The three main decomposition routines implemented in pyeemd – EMD, EEMD and CEEMDAN – are available as emd(), eemd() and ceemdan(), respectively. All these methods use similar conventions so interchanging one for another is easy.

Input data to these routines can be any kind of Python sequence that numpy can convert to an 1D array of floating point values. The output data will be a 2D numpy array, where each row of the array represents a single intrinsic mode function (IMF).

As an example, the examples subfolder of pyeemd contains a file ecg.csv, which contains ECG (electrocardiogram) data from the MIT-BIH Normal Sinus Rhythm Database. The data is in CSV (comma separated value) format, which can be read into Python in many ways, one of which is using numpy.loadtxt() using the appropriate delimiter:

from numpy import loadtxt

ecg = loadtxt("ecg.csv", delimiter=',')

Now we have the data in a numpy array ecg. We can quickly plot what the data looks like using matplotlib.pyplot.

Original ECG signal as plotted by matplotlib.pyplot.

from matplotlib.pyplot import plot, show, title

title("Original signal")
plot(ecg)
show()

The data stored in ecg can be decomposed with CEEMDAN using the routine ceemdan(). The only thing we need to decide is what to use as the stopping criterion for the sifting iterations. In this example we use a S-number of 4. The other choice would be to set a maximum number of siftings (as used in the reference EEMD code) by using the parameter num_siftings:

from pyeemd import ceemdan

imfs = ceemdan(ecg, S_number=4)

Now the rows of the 2D array imfs are the IMFs the original signal decomposes to when applying CEEMDAN. We can plot these IMFs using matplotlib.pyplot as before, but pyeemd also comes with an utility function plot_imfs() for easily plotting the IMFs (using matplotlib.pyplot) in separate figures.

IMF 7 extracted from ECG data with ceemdan() and plotted with plot_imfs().

from pyeemd.utils import plot_imfs

plot_imfs(imfs, plot_splines=False)
show()

The plot_splines=False argument prevents the plotting of the envelope curves of the IMFs, which would otherwise be shown.

This concludes our simple tutorial. For more in-depth information about the methods available in pyeemd please head to the API documentation. You can also look at example code at the examples subdirectory of pyeemd. How you choose to use or process the IMFs obtained by the decomposition routines is beyond the scope of this document – and beyond the scope of pyeemd – but you might be interested in the Hilbert transform routine offered by scipy.fftpack.hilbert().

API documentation¶

Main decomposition routines¶

pyeemd.eemd(inp, num_imfs=None, ensemble_size=250, noise_strength=0.2, S_number=0, num_siftings=0, rng_seed=0)[source]¶

Decompose input data array inp to Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs) with the Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition algorithm [R1].

The size of the ensemble and the relative magnitude of the added noise are given by parameters ensemble_size and noise_strength, respectively. The stopping criterion for the decomposition is given by either a S-number or an absolute number of siftings. In the case that both are positive numbers, the sifting ends when either of the conditions is fulfilled.

Parameters:

inp : array_like, shape (N,)

The input signal to decompose. Has to be a one-dimensional array-like object.

num_imfs : int, optional

Number of IMFs to extract. If set to None, a maximum value given by emd_num_imfs(N) is used. Note that the residual is also counted in this number, so num_imfs=1 will simply give you the input signal plus noise.

ensemble_size : int, optional

Number of copies of the input signal to use as the ensemble.

noise_strength : float, optional

Standard deviation of the Gaussian random numbers used as additional noise. This value is relative to the standard deviation of the input signal.

S_number : int, optional

Use the S-number stopping criterion [R2] for the EMD procedure with the given values of S. That is, iterate until the number of extrema and zero crossings in the signal differ at most by one, and stay the same for S consecutive iterations. Typical values are in the range 3 .. 8. If S_number is zero, this stopping criterion is ignored.

num_siftings : int, optional

Use a maximum number of siftings as a stopping criterion. If num_siftings is zero, this stopping criterion is ignored.

rng_seed : int, optional

A seed for the random number generator. A value of zero denotes an implementation-defined default value.

Returns:

imfs : ndarray, shape (M, N)

A MxN array with M = num_imfs. The rows of the array are the IMFs of the input signal, with the last row being the final residual.

Auxiliary routines¶

pyeemd.emd_num_imfs(N)[source]¶: Return number of IMFs that will be extracted from input data of length N, including the final residual.

pyeemd.emd_find_extrema(x)[source]¶

Find the local minima and maxima from input data x. This includes the artificial extrema added to the ends of the data as specified in the original EEMD article [R4].

Parameters:

x : array_like, shape (N,)

The input data. Has to be a one-dimensional array_like object.

Returns:

all_extrema_good : bool

Specifies whether the extrema fulfill the requirements of an IMF, i.e. , the local minima are negative and the local maxima are positive.

maxx : ndarray

The x-coordinates of the local maxima.

maxy : ndarray

The y-coordinates of the local maxima.

minx : ndarray

The x-coordinates of the local minima.

miny : ndarray

The y-coordinates of the local minima.

References

[R4]	(1, 2) Z. Wu and N. Huang, “Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition: A Noise-Assisted Data Analysis Method”, Advances in Adaptive Data Analysis, Vol. 1 (2009) 1–41

pyeemd.emd_evaluate_spline(x, y)[source]¶

Evaluates a cubic spline with the given (x, y) points as knots.

Parameters:

x : array_like, shape (N,)

The x coordinates of the knots. The array must be sorted, start from 0 and end at an integer.

y : array_like, shape (N,)

The y coordinates of the knots.

Returns:

spline_y : ndarray

The cubic spline curve defined by the knots and the “not-a-knot” end conditions, evaluated at integer points from 0 to max(x).

Utility code: pyeemd.utils¶

Some utility functions for visualizing IMFs produced by the (E)EMD methods.

utils.plot_imfs(imfs, new_figs=True, plot_splines=True)[source]¶

Plot utility method for plotting IMFs and their envelope splines with pylab.

Parameters:

imfs : ndarray

The IMFs as returned by pyeemd.emd(), pyeemd.eemd(), or pyeemd.ceemdan().

new_figs : bool, optional

Whether to plot the IMFs in separate figures.

plot_splines : bool, optional

Whether to plot the envelope spline curves as well.

Table Of Contents

Welcome to pyeemd’s documentation!¶

Contents:¶

Installing pyeemd¶

Tutorial¶

API documentation¶

Main decomposition routines¶

Auxiliary routines¶

Utility code: pyeemd.utils¶

Indices and tables¶