A new minimum variance spectral estimation method for analyzing click-evoked otoacoustic emissions

Abstract

This paper proposes a new minimum variance spectral estimation (MVSE)-based time-frequency analysis (TFA) for click-evoked otoacoustic emissions (CEOAEs). The conventional MVSE is extended to TFA by windowing the observation data to obtain a time-frequency distribution for the time-series. Based on the characteristics of CEOAEs, the window size is given a small value at high frequencies and a large value at low frequencies. The adaptive window size yields the proposed frequency-dependent WMVSE (FDWMVSE). The FDWMVSE integrates the advantages of adaptive window selection of wavelet transform and good resolution of MVSE. Experimental results show that the FDWMVSE can achieve better frequency resolution than other TFA methods when applied to synthesized and real CEOAEs. ©2007 IEEE.