Finding local minima for a signal
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neamah al-naffakh
on 8 Aug 2016
Commented: Med Aymane Ahajjam
on 27 Jan 2019
I have used the (findpeaks) function in Matlab in order to find the locations and the value of the peaks ( Local Maxima ) in the signal.
please, Is there any function to extract the local minimums of the following graph?
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Walter Roberson
on 8 Aug 2016
If you have a routine that can find local maxima, then to find local minima, apply the local maxima routine to the negative of the data. Like
findpeaks(-X_Segments{nn},'MinPeakDistance', 20)
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Image Analyst
on 9 Aug 2016
You're probably okay with your data, but beware of findpeaks() if your max or min spikes have flat tops or bottoms. It will give only the first index. In that case you want to use the imregionalmin() function from the Image Processing Toolbox. Just look at this example with a min that has a flat bottom:
data = [ 1 3 4 2 2 2 4 4 5 6] % Flat bottom with value of 2 from indexex 4-6
[peakValues, indexesOfPeaks] = findpeaks(-data)
peakValues = -peakValues
minIndexes = imregionalmin(data)
data =
1 3 4 2 2 2 4 4 5 6
peakValues =
-2
indexesOfPeaks =
4
peakValues =
2
minIndexes =
1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
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shima tavakoli
on 13 Feb 2018
my signal is asymmetric and its negative parts are different. how to deal with negative parts peaks then? cant negative the signal in this case!
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Image Analyst
on 13 Feb 2018
Who knows? You forgot to read this and forgot to attach your signal and a screenshot of it, so there's not much I can say, other than to write custom code to deal with it.
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