It has been claimed that the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and its improved version the ensemble EMD (EEMD) are computation intensive. In this study we will prove that the time complexity of the EMD/EEMD, which has never been analyzed before, is actually equivalent to that of the Fourier...

Cerebral autoregulation is an important mechanism that involves dilatation and constriction in arterioles to maintain relatively stable cerebral blood flow in response to changes of systemic blood pressure. Traditional assessments of autoregulation focus on the changes of cerebral blood flow...

We investigate if known extrinsic and intrinsic factors fully account for the complex features observed in recordings of human activity as measured from forearm motion in subjects undergoing their regular daily routine. We demonstrate that the apparently random forearm motion possesses dynamic...

We report some recent attempts to understand the dynamics of complex physiologic fluctuations by adapting and extending concepts and methods developed very recently in statistical physics. We first review recent progress using wavelet-based multifractal analysis, magnitude and sign decomposition...