Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 365054, 6 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/365054
Research Article

Approximating Ideal Filters by Systems of Fractional Order

Ming Li1,2

1School of Information Science & Technology, East China Normal University, No. 500, Dong-Chuan Road, Shanghai 200241, China
2Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau, Avenue Padre Tomas Pereira, Taipa 1356, Macau, China

Received 16 September 2011; Accepted 10 October 2011

Academic Editor: Carlo Cattani

Copyright © 2012 Ming Li. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

The contributions in this paper are in two folds. On the one hand, we propose a general approach for approximating ideal filters based on fractional calculus from the point of view of systems of fractional order. On the other hand, we suggest that the Paley and Wiener criterion might not be a necessary condition for designing physically realizable ideal filters. As an application of the present approach, we show a case in designing ideal filters for suppressing 50-Hz interference in electrocardiogram (ECG) signals.