analyzing biosignals in Matlab

Hi, I am having a project where I have to open a signal from muscles in matlab and use to it find a few parameters. I'm a beginner in matlab so I apologize if my questions might sound too simple. first, the file for my signal is a .mat file. I know how to load it in matlab but how can I open it as a figure? (a plot of my signal) I mean I wanna see my signal in matlab. second, I need to find the median frequency for this signal which is in the time domain itself so it has to turn into freq domain first. I need the median frequecy for 2 parts of signal, from the beginning to near the middle, and then middle to end. How do I do that? I know about the functions in matlab that take median freq etc but I need the exact code as an example. any help would be really appreciated.

Answer 1

[Rick Rosson]

Hi Mary,

The functions that you need in MATLAB include:

   plot
   median
   fft
   fftshift

To use these function, you will need a time-domain representation of your signal, which according to your question you can load from a MAT file.

If you need information about how to call these functions, please type

   doc functionName

at the MATLAB command line, where functionName is the name of one of these function. For example, type

   doc fft

to open the function reference page for the fft function.

You will also need to know the sampling rate (call it Fs) in samples per second of the signal. Once you have Fs, you can compute the time domain t and the frequency domain f.

HTH.

Rick

[Mary G]

Dear Rick,

Thank you so much for your reply.

Well I know how to load the file in matlab, but how do I view it? I mean how can I see the signal from matlab after loading its file?

Answer 2

[Rick Rosson]

Hi Mary,

When you load the file into MATLAB, what are the names and sizes of the variables that appear in the MATLAB Workspace? To find out, please try the following:

   filename = 'myfile.mat';  % or whatever the file is called
   load(filename);
   whos

Then please copy and paste the table from the Command Window to this forum.

Thanks.

Answer 3

[Rick Rosson]

Hi Mary,

The easiest way to visualize a signal in MATLAB is to simply plot it. Please try:

   plot(x);

where x is the name of the variable containing the samples of the signal.

HTH.

Rick

Answer 4

[Mary G]

Dear Rick, thanks alot for your repllies! I figured it out now. All the best Mary

Answer 5

[Mary G]

Hi, I'm having problem getting some info from my image data files. I need the resolution, time of imaging and imaging pulse sequence used for my data files. my data are in .hdr and .img format. Unfortunately I can not use the imfinfo function of matlab to get image info. is there anything else I can use for my data formats to extract these three parameters I'm looking for? please reply asap if you can thank you mary

[Walter Roberson]

Is there a name for the data file format you are using? If not, then what kind of device produced it?

[Mary G]

Well, I don know what kind of device produced it; its just some data collected from a subject during a functional MRI procedure. the files are in pairs of image files and header files (name.img and name.hdr)so for each data collected from the subject there's 2 formats.