Title
EventDTW: An Improved Dynamic Time Warping Algorithm for Aligning Biomedical Signals of Nonuniform Sampling Frequencies.
Abstract
The dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm is widely used in pattern matching and sequence alignment tasks, including speech recognition and time series clustering. However, DTW algorithms perform poorly when aligning sequences of uneven sampling frequencies. This makes it difficult to apply DTW to practical problems, such as aligning signals that are recorded simultaneously by sensors with different, uneven, and dynamic sampling frequencies. As multi-modal sensing technologies become increasingly popular, it is necessary to develop methods for high quality alignment of such signals. Here we propose a DTW algorithm called EventDTW which uses information propagated from defined events as basis for path matching and hence sequence alignment. We have developed two metrics, the error rate (ER) and the singularity score (SS), to define and evaluate alignment quality and to enable comparison of performance across DTW algorithms. We demonstrate the utility of these metrics on 84 publicly-available signals in addition to our own multi-modal biomedical signals. EventDTW outperformed existing DTW algorithms for optimal alignment of signals with different sampling frequencies in 37% of artificial signal alignment tasks and 76% of real-world signal alignment tasks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/s20092700
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
dynamic time warping,signal alignment,nonuniform sampling
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yihang Jiang100.34
Yuankai Qi200.34
Will Ke Wang300.34
Brinnae Bent400.68
Robert Avram500.34
Jeffrey E. Olgin641.73
Jessilyn Dunn700.68