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  • Physiological signal processing
  • Multifractal dynamics

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  • Physiological processes exhibit scale-free temporal structuring.
  • Standard analytical tools fail with multimodal scaling common in biological data.
  • Noise and multiple signal generators complicate signal analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce novel methods to identify breakpoints in multimodal multifractal scaling.
  • Develop tools for analyzing complex physiological signals, including brain activity.
  • Overcome limitations of standard analytical methods for biological data.

Main Methods:

  • Focus-based multifractal formalism (FMF) with iterative fitting.
  • Moment-wise scaling range adaptivity for breakpoint analysis.
  • Scaling function decomposition method (SFD) for signal deconvolution.

Main Results:

  • Methods successfully handle multimodal, mono/multifractal, and empirical signals.
  • Demonstrated robust performance on NIRS, EEG, and fMRI-BOLD data.
  • Identified bimodal signals in NIRS/fMRI-BOLD and a crossover in EEG at the delta-theta boundary.

Conclusions:

  • SFD method is essential for processing multimodal brain imaging data.
  • New methods enable accurate multifractal analysis of physiological signals.
  • SFD effectively separates multifractal components from underlying noise.