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Reg No.:_______________ Name:__________________________

APJ ABDUL KALAM TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
VI SEMESTER B.TECH DEGREE EXAMINATION(R&S), MAY 2019
Course Code: BM304
Course Name: BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING
Max. Marks: 100 Duration: 3 Hours

PART A
Answer any two full questions, each carries 15 marks. Marks

1 a) Differentiate between Analog and Digital filters. (5)

b) Design an ideal band reject filter using Fourier series method with a desired (10)
frequency response
π 2π
𝐻𝑑 (𝑒 𝑗𝑤 ) = 𝑒 −3𝑗𝑤 𝑓𝑜𝑟 |𝑤| ≤ and |w| ≥
3 3
= 0 otherwise

Find the value of h(n) for N=11. Find H(z).

2 a) What is the need of employing window technique for FIR filter design? (5)
b) Consider the difference equation (10)
3 1
𝑦(𝑛) = 4 𝑦(𝑛 − 1) − 8 𝑦(𝑛 − 2) + 𝑥(𝑛) − 5 𝑥(𝑛 − 1) Obtain

i) Direct form I ii) Direct form II

3 a) Explain various steps involved in designing an IIR Butterworth Low pass filter. (10)
b) Determine H(z) using the impulse invariant technique for the analog system (5)
2
function Ha(s) = 𝑆(𝑆+2)

PART B
Answer any two full questions, each carries 15 marks.

4 a) What do you mean by Periodogram? Explain. (5)

b) Explain i) Bartlett Method ii) Welch Method iii) The Blackman and Turkey (10)
Method of power spectrum estimation.

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5 a) Explain in detail AR, ARMA and MA models for power spectrum estimation. (10)
b) Write a note on Levinson Durbin Algorithm. (5)

6 a) Describe Forward and Backward Linear prediction theory (10)

b) What are Yule-Walker equations? Explain. (5)
PART C
Answer any two full questions, each carries20 marks.

7 a) Explain spectrum estimation of ECG. (10)

b) Explain about power spectrum estimation of Heart Rate Variability. (10)

8 a) Find the DCT of the following sequence {1,2,3,4} (10)

b) What do you mean by a Mother Wavelet? Write the definition of CWT. What are (10)
its properties?

9 a) Write a note on Orthogonal wavelet decomposition. (10)

b) Explain about filter banks. (10)
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