The concepts of intrinsic mode functions and mono-components are investigated in relation to the empirical mode decomposition. Mono-components are defined to be the functions for which non-negative analytic instantaneous frequency is well defined. We show that a great variety of functions are mono-components based on which adaptive decomposition of signals are theoretically possible. We justify...

the record of human brain neural activities, namely electroencephalogram (eeg), is generally known as a non-stationary and nonlinear signal. in many applications, it is useful to divide the eegs into segments within which the signals can be considered stationary. combination of empirical mode decomposition (emd) and hilbert transform, called hilbert-huang transform (hht), is a new and powerful ...