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Biomedical Signal Processing

Assignment- Week 8
TYPE OF QUESTIONS: MCQ/MSQ
Number of questions: 10 Total mark: 10 X 1 = 10
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QUESTION 1:

Which of the following is true for single motor unit action potential (SMUAP) signal?
a. SMUAP is periodic
b. SMUAP is aperiodic
c. SMUAP is quasi-periodic
d. SMUAP is pseudo-periodic

Correct Answer: c
Detailed Solution:
Refer to slide 50 Week-8 L-40: Motor Unit Firing Pattern, Modelling of Biomedical System.
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QUESTION 2:

Which of the following is the correct range for inter-pulse interval between successive single motor
unit?

a. 3-20ms
b. 7-25ms
c. 40-140ms
d. none of the above

Correct Answer: c
Detailed Solution:
Refer to slide 52 Week-8 L-40: Motor Unit Firing Pattern, Modelling of Biomedical System.
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QUESTION 3:

In normal muscle activation, how much is the single motor unit action potential (SMUAP) duration?
a. 30-200ms
b. 3-200ms
c. 0.3-2ms
d. 3-20ms

Correct Answer: d
Detailed Solution:
Refer to slide 52 Week-8 L-40: Motor Unit Firing Pattern, Modelling of Biomedical Systems.
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QUESTION 4:

Which of the following statement is incorrect?

a. For an ergodic process autocorrelation may be computed as time average.
b. Knowledge of autocorrelation is sufficient to calculate autoregressive parameters of ARMA
systems.
c. Autocorrelation of the input to filter is a Toeplitz matrix.
d. None of the above

Correct Answer: d
Detailed Solution:
Refer to slides 81 – 84 Week-8 L-43: Application to random signals, Modelling of Biomedical Systems.
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QUESTION 5:

Which of the statement about Toeplitz matrix is incorrect?

a. Diagonal elements are identical.
b. Product of two Toeplitz matrix must be a Toeplitz matrix
c. Sum of two Toeplitz matrix must be a Toeplitz matrix
d. None of the above

Correct Answer: b
Detailed Solution:
Product of two Toeplitz matrix may or may not be Toeplitz.
Example:
1 2 3 6 7 8 24 46 40
[4 1 2] × [9 6 7] = [33 52 51]
5 4 1 0 9 6 66 68 74
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QUESTION 6:

Which of the following statements are false for the modelling of auto-regressive model?
a. Minimum total square error of an auto-correlation function can be used to estimate the
parameters of auto-regressive model.
b. Minimum total square error of an auto-correlation function cannot be used to estimate the
parameters of auto regressive model.
c. Maximum error between actual output value and predicted output value indicates the best
estimate of parameters for the auto-regressive model.
d. Minimum error between actual output value and predicted output value indicates the best
estimate of parameters for the auto-regressive model.

Correct answer: b, c
Detailed solution:
Refer to slide 73-75 Week-8 L-42: Autoregressive or All-Pole Model, Modelling of Biomedical Systems.
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QUESTION 7:

Which of the following observations are correct for the matrix formed by covariance function while
modelling the auto regressive system?
a. Matrix is not symmetric
b. Matrix is symmetric
c. Elements along the diagonal are not same
d. Elements along the diagonal are same

Correct Answer: b, c
Detailed Solution:
Refer to slide 90 Week-8 L-43: Covariance method, Modelling of Biomedical Systems.
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QUESTION 8:

Which of the following statement is true about parameters estimation of the auto regressive
model?
a. As model order 0 the model ACF and PSD becomes identical to signal ACF and PSD
b. As model order ∞, the model ACF and PSD becomes identical to signal ACF and PSD
c. The model order variation does not cause any change in ACF or PSD of the model
d. None of these.
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Correct Answer: b
Detailed Solution:
Refer to slide 95 Week-8 L-44: Spectral Matching & parametrization, Modelling of biomedical signals.
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QUESTION 9:

Which of the following statement is true for the optimal model order selection for an auto-regressive
system?
a. When the change in normalized error between signal ACF and model ACF is maximized.
b. The model Order for which the Akaike’s measure is maximum indicates the optimal model
order.
c. The model order for which the Akaike’s measure is minimum indicates the optimal model order.
d. None of the above.

Correct answer: c
Detailed solution:
Refer to slide 97 Week-8 L-44: Model order selection, Modelling of Biomedical Systems.
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QUESTION 10:

For the 𝑝𝑡ℎ order AR process with 𝑝 < 10, the number of cepstral coefficients will be
a. Infinite
b. Finite
c. It may be anything
d. None of these

Correct answer: b
Detailed solution:
Refer to slide 100-103 Week-8 L-44: Relation between AR and cepstral coefficients.
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