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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,932 Views
12 Pages

19 September 2019

Fractional refined composite multiscale fuzzy entropy (FRCMFE), which aims to relieve the large fluctuation of fuzzy entropy (FuzzyEn) measure and significantly discriminate different short-term financial time series with noise, is proposed to quanti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Fractional View of Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,512 Views
18 Pages

Use of Composite Multivariate Multiscale Permutation Fuzzy Entropy to Diagnose the Faults of Rolling Bearing

  • Qiang Yuan,
  • Mingchen Lv,
  • Ruiping Zhou,
  • Hong Liu and ,
  • Chongkun Liang and
  • Lijiao Cheng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 July 2023

The study focuses on the fault signals of rolling bearings, which are characterized by nonlinearity, periodic impact, and low signal-to-noise ratio. The advantages of entropy calculation in analyzing time series data were combined with the high calcu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy in Machine Learning Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,071 Views
15 Pages

Variable-Step Multiscale Fuzzy Dispersion Entropy: A Novel Metric for Signal Analysis

  • Yuxing Li,
  • Junxian Wu,
  • Shuai Zhang,
  • Bingzhao Tang and
  • Yilan Lou

29 June 2023

Fuzzy dispersion entropy (FuzDE) is a newly proposed entropy metric, which combines the superior characteristics of fuzzy entropy (FE) and dispersion entropy (DE) in signal analysis. However, FuzDE only reflects the feature from the original signal,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dispersion Entropy: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,157 Views
13 Pages

18 March 2019

Multiscale fuzzy entropy (MFE), as an enhanced multiscale sample entropy (MSE) method, is an effective nonlinear method for measuring the complexity of time series. In this paper, an improved MFE algorithm termed composite interpolation-based multisc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy-Based Fault Diagnosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,121 Views
20 Pages

18 January 2017

Electroencephalography (EEG) is considered the output of a brain and it is a bioelectrical signal with multiscale and nonlinear properties. Motor Imagery EEG (MI-EEG) not only has a close correlation with the human imagination and movement intention...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Signal Processing Methods for Systematic Analysis of Physiological Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,669 Views
16 Pages

A Refined Composite Multivariate Multiscale Fuzzy Entropy and Laplacian Score-Based Fault Diagnosis Method for Rolling Bearings

  • Jinde Zheng,
  • Deyu Tu,
  • Haiyang Pan,
  • Xiaolei Hu and ,
  • Tao Liu and
  • Qingyun Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 November 2017

The vibration signals of rolling bearings are often nonlinear and non-stationary. Multiscale entropy (MSE) has been widely applied to measure the complexity of nonlinear mechanical vibration signals, however, at present only the single channel vibrat...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
3,864 Views
26 Pages

Refined Composite Multiscale Fuzzy Dispersion Entropy and Its Applications to Bearing Fault Diagnosis

  • Mostafa Rostaghi,
  • Mohammad Mahdi Khatibi,
  • Mohammad Reza Ashory and
  • Hamed Azami

29 October 2023

Rotary machines often exhibit nonlinear behavior due to factors such as nonlinear stiffness, damping, friction, coupling effects, and defects. Consequently, their vibration signals display nonlinear characteristics. Entropy techniques prove to be eff...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dispersion Entropy: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,570 Views
18 Pages

Improving Multiscale Fuzzy Entropy Robustness in EEG-Based Alzheimer’s Disease Detection via Amplitude Transformation

  • Pasquale Arpaia,
  • Maria Cacciapuoti,
  • Andrea Cataldo,
  • Sabatina Criscuolo and ,
  • Egidio De Benedetto,
  • Antonio Masciullo,
  • Marisa Pesola and
  • Raissa Schiavoni
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

5 December 2024

This study investigates the effectiveness of amplitude transformation in enhancing the performance and robustness of Multiscale Fuzzy Entropy for Alzheimer’s disease detection using electroencephalography signals. Multiscale Fuzzy Entropy is a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensing Technologies and Applied Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,387 Views
15 Pages

13 August 2018

Multiscale entropy (MSE), as a complexity measurement method of time series, has been widely used to extract the fault information hidden in machinery vibration signals. However, the insufficient coarse graining in MSE will result in fault pattern in...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
10,144 Views
18 Pages

A Multivariate Multiscale Fuzzy Entropy Algorithm with Application to Uterine EMG Complexity Analysis

  • Mosabber U. Ahmed,
  • Theerasak Chanwimalueang,
  • Sudhin Thayyil and
  • Danilo P. Mandic

22 December 2016

The recently introduced multivariate multiscale entropy (MMSE) has been successfully used to quantify structural complexity in terms of nonlinear within- and cross-channel correlations as well as to reveal complex dynamical couplings and various degr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multivariate Entropy Measures and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,004 Views
15 Pages

Multiscale Entropy Analysis of Short Signals: The Robustness of Fuzzy Entropy-Based Variants Compared to Full-Length Long Signals

  • Airton Monte Serrat Borin,
  • Anne Humeau-Heurtier,
  • Luiz Eduardo Virgílio Silva and
  • Luiz Otávio Murta

1 December 2021

Multiscale entropy (MSE) analysis is a fundamental approach to access the complexity of a time series by estimating its information creation over a range of temporal scales. However, MSE may not be accurate or valid for short time series. This is why...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiscale Entropy Approaches and Their Applications II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,282 Views
18 Pages

30 November 2020

Motor Imagery Electroencephalography (MI-EEG) has shown good prospects in neurorehabilitation, and the entropy-based nonlinear dynamic methods have been successfully applied to feature extraction of MI-EEG. Especially based on Multiscale Fuzzy Entrop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,443 Views
22 Pages

10 May 2025

Efficient extraction and classification of fault features remain critical challenges in planetary gearbox fault diagnosis. A fault diagnosis framework is proposed that integrates hierarchical refined composite multiscale fuzzy entropy (HRCMFE) for fe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy-Based Fault Diagnosis: From Theory to Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,140 Views
25 Pages

Time Shift Multiscale Ensemble Fuzzy Dispersion Entropy and Its Application in Bearing Fault Diagnosis

  • Juntong Li,
  • Shunrong Chen,
  • Yuting Shi,
  • Rou Guan and ,
  • Hua Chen,
  • Shi Yang,
  • Jingyuan Ma,
  • Qilin Wu and
  • Chengjiang Zhou
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Accurate detection of surface defects such as wear, cracks, and flaws in metallic components is critical for equipment reliability and longevity, representing a core challenge in surface integrity engineering. To solve the information loss, low estim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,329 Views
24 Pages

30 August 2021

The fuzzy-entropy-based complexity metric approach has achieved fruitful results in bearing fault diagnosis. However, traditional hierarchical fuzzy entropy (HFE) and multiscale fuzzy entropy (MFE) only excavate bearing fault information on different...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Information Theoretic: From Theory to Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,762 Views
21 Pages

Refined Multiscale Entropy Using Fuzzy Metrics: Validation and Application to Nociception Assessment

  • José F. Valencia,
  • Jose D. Bolaños,
  • Montserrat Vallverdú,
  • Erik W. Jensen and ,
  • Alberto Porta and
  • Pedro L. Gambús
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 July 2019

The refined multiscale entropy (RMSE) approach is commonly applied to assess complexity as a function of the time scale. RMSE is normally based on the computation of sample entropy (SampEn) estimating complexity as conditional entropy. However, SampE...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Dynamics in Brain and Physiological Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,242 Views
16 Pages

Intelligent Fault Diagnosis for Rotating Mechanical Systems: An Improved Multiscale Fuzzy Entropy and Support Vector Machine Algorithm

  • Yuxin Pan,
  • Yinsheng Chen,
  • Xihong Fei,
  • Kang Wang and ,
  • Tian Fang and
  • Jing Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 December 2024

Rotating mechanical systems (RMSs) are widely applied in various industrial fields. Intelligent fault diagnosis technology plays a significant role in improving the reliability and safety of industrial equipment. A new algorithm based on improved mul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Powered Predictive Maintenance: Transforming Industrial Operations Through Intelligent Fault Diagnosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,066 Views
16 Pages

In recent years, fuzzy dispersion entropy (FDE) has been proposed and used in the feature extraction of various types of signals. However, FDE can only analyze a signal from a single time scale during practical application and ignores some important...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,032 Views
11 Pages

7 March 2022

Recognition of biological tissue denaturation is a vital work in high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy. Multiscale permutation entropy (MPE) is a nonlinear signal processing method for feature extraction, widely applied to the recognition...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomedical Signal Processing and Data Analytics in Healthcare Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,146 Views
16 Pages

3 October 2021

Two-dimensional fuzzy entropy, dispersion entropy, and their multiscale extensions (MFuzzyEn2D and MDispEn2D, respectively) have shown promising results for image classifications. However, these results rely on the selection of key parameters that ma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy in the Application of Biomedical Signals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,148 Views
16 Pages

A Novel Metric for Alzheimer’s Disease Detection Based on Brain Complexity Analysis via Multiscale Fuzzy Entropy

  • Andrea Cataldo,
  • Sabatina Criscuolo,
  • Egidio De Benedetto,
  • Antonio Masciullo and ,
  • Marisa Pesola and
  • Raissa Schiavoni
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative brain disorder that affects cognitive functioning and memory. Current diagnostic tools, including neuroimaging techniques and cognitive questionnaires, present limitations such as invasiveness, hi...

(This article belongs to the Section Nanobiotechnology and Biofabrication)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,123 Views
12 Pages

8 November 2018

Orthostatic intolerance syndrome occurs when the autonomic nervous system is incapacitated and fails to respond to the demands associated with the upright position. Assessing this syndrome among the elderly population is important in order to prevent...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy: From Physics to Information Sciences and Geometry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,630 Views
21 Pages

Assessing the Role of EEG Biosignal Preprocessing to Enhance Multiscale Fuzzy Entropy in Alzheimer’s Disease Detection

  • Pasquale Arpaia,
  • Maria Cacciapuoti,
  • Andrea Cataldo,
  • Sabatina Criscuolo and ,
  • Egidio De Benedetto,
  • Antonio Masciullo,
  • Marisa Pesola and
  • Raissa Schiavoni
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

10 June 2025

Quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG) has emerged as a promising tool for detecting Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Among QEEG measures, Multiscale Fuzzy Entropy (MFE) shows great potential in identifying AD-related changes in EEG complexity. Ho...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosensors and Healthcare)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,942 Views
25 Pages

12 February 2025

Intermittent faults occur randomly, last for short durations, and ultimately lead to permanent failures, threatening the safety and stability of analog circuits. Additionally, these faults are often hard to differentiate from noise-induced anomalies,...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,271 Views
20 Pages

11 October 2019

To overcome the difficulty of accurately determining the load state of a wet ball mill during the grinding process, a method of mill load identification based on improved empirical wavelet transform (EWT), multiscale fuzzy entropy (MFE), and adaptive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Condition Monitoring, Optimization and Control for Complex Industrial Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,126 Views
15 Pages

14 June 2022

The working environment of rotating machines is complex, and their key components are prone to failure. The early fault diagnosis of rolling bearings is of great significance; however, extracting the single scale fault feature of the early weak fault...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machinery Testing and Intelligent Fault Diagnosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,955 Views
16 Pages

Adaptive Local Mean Decomposition and Multiscale-Fuzzy Entropy-Based Algorithms for the Detection of DC Series Arc Faults in PV Systems

  • Lina Wang,
  • Ehtisham Lodhi,
  • Pu Yang,
  • Hongcheng Qiu and ,
  • Waheed Ur Rehman,
  • Zeeshan Lodhi,
  • Tariku Sinshaw Tamir and
  • M. Adil Khan
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

15 May 2022

DC series arc fault detection is essential for improving the productivity of photovoltaic (PV) stations. The DC series arc fault also poses severe fire hazards to the solar equipment and surrounding building. DC series arc faults must be detected ear...

(This article belongs to the Topic Solar Thermal Energy and Photovoltaic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,254 Views
23 Pages

Linear Rolling Guide Surface Wear-State Identification Based on Multi-Scale Fuzzy Entropy and Random Forest

  • Conghui Nie,
  • Changguang Zhou,
  • Tieqiang Wang,
  • Xiaoyi Wang and ,
  • Huaxi Zhou and
  • Hutian Feng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

As a critical precision transmission element in numerical control (NC) machines, the linear rolling guide (LRG) suffers from surface wear degradation, which significantly impairs machining accuracy and operational reliability. Despite its importance,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High Performance Machining and Surface Tribology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
216 Citations
11,857 Views
21 Pages

31 December 2016

Feature extraction is one of the most important, pivotal, and difficult problems in mechanical fault diagnosis, which directly relates to the accuracy of fault diagnosis and the reliability of early fault prediction. Therefore, a new fault feature ex...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wavelets, Fractals and Information Theory II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
630 Views
20 Pages

This paper presents an intelligent fault identification approach integrating composite multiscale fractional fuzzy diversity entropy (CMFFDE) for feature extraction, joint mutual information (JMI) for feature selection, and an extreme learning machin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Order Modeling and Fault Detection in Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,012 Views
16 Pages

8 July 2021

Arc fault diagnosis is necessary for the safety and efficiency of PV stations. This study proposed an arc fault diagnosis algorithm formed by combining variational mode decomposition (VMD), improved multi-scale fuzzy entropy (IMFE), and support vecto...

(This article belongs to the Topic Power System Modeling and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Views
45 Pages

Variable-Step Multiscale Generalized Gaussian Distribution Generalized Rényi Fuzzy Dispersion Transfer Entropy for Bearing Fault Diagnosis

  • Mingyi Ouyang,
  • Zhendong Yin,
  • Chao Jiang,
  • Dongdong Shi and ,
  • Yifan Guan and
  • Yu Fang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 November 2026

Dispersion entropy and its transfer-entropy extension are widely used for nonlinear feature extraction in bearing fault diagnosis. Existing improvements address one mechanism at a time, such as fuzzy membership for boundary softening, generalized Gau...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy-Based Methods for Fault Diagnosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,829 Views
17 Pages

9 April 2020

Based on entropy characteristics, some complex nonlinear dynamics of the dynamic pressure at the outlet of a centrifugal compressor are analyzed, as the centrifugal compressor operates in a stable and unstable state. First, the 800-kW centrifugal com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,626 Views
20 Pages

A New Fuzzy Logic Classifier Based on Multiscale Permutation Entropy and Its Application in Bearing Fault Diagnosis

  • Wenhua Du,
  • Xiaoming Guo,
  • Zhijian Wang,
  • Junyuan Wang and ,
  • Mingrang Yu,
  • Chuanjiang Li,
  • Guanjun Wang,
  • Longjuan Wang,
  • Huaichao Guo and
  • Xingyan Yao
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

24 December 2019

The self-organizing fuzzy (SOF) logic classifier is an efficient and non-parametric classifier. Its classification process is divided into an offline training stage, an online training stage, and a testing stage. Representative samples of different c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,400 Views
21 Pages

20 June 2019

Exploring the manifestation of emotion in electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is helpful for improving the accuracy of emotion recognition. This paper introduced the novel features based on the multiscale information analysis (MIA) of EEG signals for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory and Complexity Science Approaches to Health Conditions and Cognitive Decline)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,734 Views
17 Pages

2 February 2023

Distribution Entropy (DistEn) has been introduced as an alternative to Sample Entropy (SampEn) to assess the heart rate variability (HRV) on much shorter series without the arbitrary definition of distance thresholds. However, DistEn, considered a me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Assessing Complexity in Physiological Systems through Biomedical Signals Analysis II)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,903 Views
14 Pages

Uncovering the Correlation between COVID-19 and Neurodegenerative Processes: Toward a New Approach Based on EEG Entropic Analysis

  • Andrea Cataldo,
  • Sabatina Criscuolo,
  • Egidio De Benedetto,
  • Antonio Masciullo and ,
  • Marisa Pesola and
  • Raissa Schiavoni
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

COVID-19 is an ongoing global pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus. Although it primarily attacks the respiratory tract, inflammation can also affect the central nervous system (CNS), leading to ch...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,967 Views
22 Pages

13 August 2021

To extract fault features of rolling bearing vibration signals precisely, a fault diagnosis method based on parameter optimized multi-scale permutation entropy (MPE) and Gath-Geva (GG) clustering is proposed. The method can select the important param...

  • Article
  • Open Access
174 Views
35 Pages

A Novel Gear Fault Diagnosis Method Based on COA-VMD, RCMFE and SSA-BP

  • Duowen Chen,
  • Haoze Lv,
  • Xinze Li,
  • Wenjie Liang and ,
  • Kailin Bai,
  • Xin Zhao,
  • Linlin Cao and
  • Xiaolong Zhou
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

14 October 2026

Aiming at the difficulties in extracting gear fault feature information and the unsatisfactory performance of commonly used machine learning classification models in terms of feature separability and stable within-distribution recognition, this paper...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy-Based Methods for Fault Diagnosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,025 Views
20 Pages

23 July 2025

Effective fault feature extraction and classification methods serve as the foundation for achieving the efficient fault diagnosis of planetary gearboxes. Considering the vibration signals of planetary gearboxes that contain both symmetrical and asymm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Fault Detection and Diagnosis for Dynamic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
334 Views
25 Pages

Planetary Gearbox Fault Diagnosis Using RCMFE and P-t-SNE

  • Lingyun Zhu,
  • Huyan Zhang,
  • Kang Huang and
  • Chuangchuang Cui

13 August 2026

Aiming at the difficulty of extracting fault features from nonlinear and non-stationary vibration signals of planetary gearboxes, a planetary gearbox fault diagnosis method based on Refined Composite Multiscale Fuzzy Entropy (RCMFE), Parametric-t-dis...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
128 Views
20 Pages

30 October 2026

Among the various online monitoring methods for assessing the insulation condition of high-voltage cables, partial discharge (PD) detection is among the most widely applied. However, PD signals acquired in field environments are highly susceptible to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Machine Learning Applications in Stability Analysis and Optimal Operation of Power Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
323 Citations
20,046 Views
14 Pages

12 May 2015

Multiscale entropy (MSE) analysis was introduced in the 2002 to evaluate the complexity of a time series by quantifying its entropy over a range of temporal scales. The algorithm has been successfully applied in different research fields. Since its i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiscale Entropy and Its Applications in Medicine and Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,325 Views
20 Pages

30 July 2020

This paper presents anomaly detection in activities of daily living based on entropy measures. It is shown that the proposed approach will identify anomalies when there are visitors representing a multi-occupant environment. Residents often receive v...

(This article belongs to the Section Signal and Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
463 Views
24 Pages

16 July 2026

To effectively extract fault characteristics from complex vibration signals and improve the diagnostic performance of deep learning networks, this paper introduces a wind turbine blade fault diagnosis method that combines Multi-scale Enhanced Hierarc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multivariate Entropy-Informed Fault Diagnosis and Structural Health Monitoring)
  • Review
  • Open Access
106 Citations
11,521 Views
15 Pages

(Multiscale) Cross-Entropy Methods: A Review

  • Antoine Jamin and
  • Anne Humeau-Heurtier

29 December 2019

Cross-entropy was introduced in 1996 to quantify the degree of asynchronism between two time series. In 2009, a multiscale cross-entropy measure was proposed to analyze the dynamical characteristics of the coupling behavior between two sequences on m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiscale Entropy Approaches and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,739 Views
24 Pages

27 October 2023

The utilization of multiscale entropy methods to characterize vibration signals has proven to be promising in intelligent diagnosis of mechanical equipment. However, in the current multiscale entropy methods, only the information in the low-frequency...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Real-Time Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,733 Views
19 Pages

13 September 2022

The extension of sample entropy methodologies to multivariate signals has received considerable attention, with traditional univariate entropy methods, such as sample entropy (SampEn) and fuzzy entropy (FuzzyEn), introduced to measure the complexity...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy and Its Applications across Disciplines III)

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