Abstract. 
The paper shows 
the method of numerical differentiation of noisy biomedical signals based on 
wavelet transform with Haar wavelet. The main feature of this method is that for 
differentiation it is not necessary to calculate an inverse wavelet transform. 
It significantly reduces the computational cost. It allows using this method 
for the analysis of long-term signals and real-time analysis. For 
differentiation we use the wavelet coefficients at certain scales, multiplied by 
the factor and divided by the sampling rate. The factor is calculated for each 
scale separately for the least value of the difference between wavelet 
coefficients and the true derivative. Next, we search scale with the smallest 
difference between the calculated and the true derivative. The selection of 
these parameters is the regularization of wavelet differentiation. For 
biomedical signals, which are taken from one place with the use of one 
instrument, it is necessary to search these parameters only once, and further, 
it is possible to recover the derivative using the found factor and scale. The 
simplicity of the method and the regularization allows to implement the 
algorithm in hardware of medical devices. The accuracy of this method was 
compared with accuracy of known methods for two characteristic signals. The 
accuracy of this method is comparable to the accuracy of standard wavelet 
differentiation. Standard wavelet differentiation requires about three times 
more computing, because it requires calculation of inverse wavelet transform. 
Thus, this simplification of the algorithm of wavelet differentiation did not 
decrease the accuracy of the derivative reconstruction.
Key words: 
numerical differentiation, wavelet transform, regularization, Haar wavelet.
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For citation:
B.Z.Garmaev, V.V.Boronoev. 
Numerical differentiation of 
biomedical signals based on wavelet transform.
Zhurnal Radioelektroniki - Journal of Radio Electronics, 
2017, No. 2. Available at http://jre.cplire.ru/jre/feb17/9/text.pdf. 
(In Russian)