Ultrasonic signal denoising based on autoencoder

Abstract

At present, denoising parameters in different signal processing algorithms require a specific signal waveform to be set. Human factors would significantly affect the denoising result. To solve this problem, we proposed a signal adaptive denoising method based on a denoising autoencoder to achieve denoising on ultrasonic signals. By applying this method to sample signals and comparing with the singular value decomposition (SVD), principal component analysis (PCA), and wavelet algorithms, it is found that this method can effectively suppress the noise at different noise intensities. Using the signal to noise ratio, root mean square error, and autocorrelation coefficient as evaluation parameters in the experiment, the overall denoising effect of the proposed method is better than that of PCA, and this method is better than the wavelet and SVD algorithms having a relatively weak noise intensity. In addition, by comparing the reconstructed signal curve of the proposed method and that of the wavelet algorithm, the proposed method can retain the information of signal saltation with a better performance. Finally, we apply this method for processing ultrasonic signals and verify its effectiveness from time and frequency domain diagrams.