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title: "8. Real-world signal denoising: infant cardiac monitoring"
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```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse  = TRUE,
  comment   = "#>",
  fig.width = 8,
  fig.height = 3.5,
  out.width = "100%"
)
if (!requireNamespace("wavethresh", quietly = TRUE)) {
  knitr::opts_chunk$set(eval = FALSE)
  message(
    "This vignette requires the 'wavethresh' package."
  )
}
```

This vignette applies rLifting to `BabyECG`, a real physiological time series bundled
with the `wavethresh` package.  The signal was recorded in 1998 from a 66-day-old
infant by Prof. Peter Fleming and colleagues at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children,
Bristol, and contains 2 048 observations of heart rate (in beats per minute) sampled
every 16 seconds over a full night (21:17–06:27).  A companion series, `BabySS`,
records the infant's sleep state (1 = quiet sleep, 2 = transitional, 3 = active sleep,
4 = awake) determined independently from EEG and EOG by a trained observer.

The three demonstrations below cover rLifting's three use cases in a single real
dataset: offline batch denoising, handling irregular sampling caused by sensor dropouts,
and sample-by-sample streaming.

> **Note.** The configurations used here (wavelet, boundary mode, threshold method)
> are reasonable defaults chosen for illustration.  This vignette is not a tuning
> exercise: no attempt is made to find the configuration that minimises reconstruction
> error on this specific signal.  For a systematic approach to configuration selection,
> see `vignette("v02-thresholding-and-tuning")` and `vignette("v07-benchmarks")` §2–§3.

```{r pkgs}
library(rLifting)
library(wavethresh)

data(BabyECG)
data(BabySS)
```

## 1. The signal

```{r raw-plot, fig.height = 4}
t_sec  = seq(0, by = 16, length.out = length(BabyECG))
t_hour = t_sec / 3600

sleep_col = c(
  "1" = "#2196F3", "2" = "#90CAF9", 
  "3" = "#FF9800", "4" = "#F44336"
)

plot(
  t_hour, BabyECG, type = "l", col = "grey60", lwd = 0.6,
  xlab = "Time (hours after 21:17)", ylab = "Heart rate (bpm)",
  main = "BabyECG — infant heart rate over one night"
)

for (state in 1:4) {
  idx = which(BabySS == state)
  points(
    t_hour[idx], BabyECG[idx], pch = 20, cex = 0.3,
    col = sleep_col[as.character(state)]
  )
}

legend(
  "topright",
  legend = c("Quiet sleep", "Transitional", "Active sleep", "Awake"),
  col = sleep_col, pch = 20, cex = 0.75, bty = "n"
)
```

The signal is non-stationary: heart rate is systematically lower during quiet sleep
(blue) and higher during active sleep and waking periods (orange/red).  The high-
frequency variability — fluctuations from sample to sample — is measurement noise
mixed with genuine short-term cardiac variability.  A universal-threshold approach
targets the former while preserving the slower physiological trend.

## 2. Offline denoising — regular grid

```{r offline-denoise}
ls_cdf53 = lifting_scheme("cdf53")

d_offline = denoise_signal_offline(
  BabyECG, ls_cdf53,
  threshold_method = "universal",
  shrinkage = "semisoft",
  extension = "symmetric"
)
```

```{r offline-plot}
plot(
  t_hour, BabyECG, type = "l", col = "grey70", lwd = 0.6,
  xlab = "Time (hours after 21:17)", ylab = "Heart rate (bpm)",
  main = "Offline denoising — cdf53 / universal semisoft"
)

lines(t_hour, d_offline, col = "#1565C0", lwd = 1.5)
legend(
  "topright", legend = c("Raw", "Denoised"), lwd = c(1, 2),
  col = c("grey70", "#1565C0"), bty = "n"
)
```

```{r offline-timing}
t_100 = system.time(
  for (i in seq_len(100))
    denoise_signal_offline(
      BabyECG, ls_cdf53,
      threshold_method = "universal",
      shrinkage = "semisoft",
      extension = "symmetric"
    )
)

cat(
  sprintf(
    "Per-call time: %.2f ms  (N = %d)\n",
    t_100["elapsed"] / 100 * 1000, length(BabyECG)
  )
)
```

### Residual diagnostics

Without a clean ground-truth signal we cannot compute MSE directly.  Two proxies
quantify how well the threshold separated noise from signal:

```{r offline-diagnostics}
lwt_raw = lwt(BabyECG, ls_cdf53, levels = 3L, extension = "symmetric")
sigma_hat = median(abs(lwt_raw$coeffs[[1]])) / 0.6745

resid = BabyECG - d_offline
acf_lag1 = acf(resid, plot = FALSE)$acf[2]

cat(
  sprintf(
    "Estimated noise sigma (MAD, finest level): %.2f bpm\n",
    sigma_hat
  )
)

cat(
  sprintf(
    "Residual sd after denoising: %.2f bpm\n",
    sd(resid)
  )
)

cat(sprintf("Residual ACF at lag 1 : %+.3f\n", acf_lag1))
```

The estimated noise level (`sigma_hat`) comes from the finest-level detail
coefficients via the robust MAD estimator
$\hat\sigma = \text{median}(|d_1|)/0.6745$.
The residual standard deviation should be close to `sigma_hat` if the threshold
is well-calibrated.  The lag-1 autocorrelation of the residuals is a white-noise
diagnostic: values near zero indicate the residuals look like independent noise;
a positive value means some signal structure leaked into the residual
(under-thresholding), and a negative value indicates over-smoothing.  For
`universal_semisoft` the lag-1 ACF is slightly negative, consistent with a
conservative threshold on this non-stationary signal.

A single offline pass takes under 0.1 ms for 2 048 samples.  The full configuration
space — all six wavelets, five boundary modes, and four threshold methods — can be
exhaustively swept in roughly 4 ms, making grid search a viable calibration strategy
at production rates (see `vignette("v07-benchmarks")` §6).

## 3. Irregular grid — handling sensor dropouts

Wearable and ambulatory monitors occasionally lose contact or drop packets.
The result is a signal sampled at irregular time positions rather than a clean regular
grid.  Naive approaches — interpolate to a regular grid and then denoise — introduce
interpolation artifacts that the denoiser treats as real structure.  rLifting's
irregular-grid mode works directly on the original (unequal) spacing.

```{r irr-setup}
set.seed(42)
n = length(BabyECG)
t_reg = seq(0, by = 16, length.out = n)

keep = sort(sample(n, round(0.70 * n)))  # retain 70 % of samples
t_irr = t_reg[keep]
y_irr = BabyECG[keep]

cat(
  sprintf(
    "Observed: %d of %d samples (%.0f %% retained)\n",
    length(keep), n, length(keep) / n * 100
  )
)

cat(
  sprintf(
    "Gap range: %.0f – %.0f s  (median %.0f s)\n",
    min(diff(t_irr)), max(diff(t_irr)), median(diff(t_irr))
  )
)
```

### rLifting irregular-grid denoising

Pass `t = t_irr` to activate Lagrange-interpolation based prediction adapted to
the actual sample positions.  Everything else — wavelet, threshold, boundary mode —
works identically to the regular case.

```{r irr-rlifting}
d_irr = denoise_signal_offline(
  y_irr, ls_cdf53,
  threshold_method = "universal",
  shrinkage = "semisoft",
  extension = "symmetric",
  t = t_irr
)
```

### Baseline: interpolate then denoise

```{r irr-interp}
y_interp = approx(t_irr, y_irr, xout = t_reg)$y
y_interp[is.na(y_interp)] = mean(y_irr)

d_interp_full = denoise_signal_offline(
  y_interp, ls_cdf53,
  threshold_method = "universal",
  shrinkage = "semisoft",
  extension = "symmetric"
)
d_interp_at_obs = approx(t_reg, d_interp_full, xout = t_irr)$y
```

### Comparison

Because we know which samples were dropped, the 30 % held-out set provides a genuine
test-set RMSE: denoise on the 70 % retained, interpolate the resulting smooth curve to
the dropped time positions, and compare to the true values there.

```{r irr-heldout}
dropped = setdiff(seq_len(n), keep)
y_true_dropped = BabyECG[dropped]
t_dropped = t_reg[dropped]

d_irr_at_ho = approx(t_irr, d_irr, xout = t_dropped)$y
d_interp_at_ho = d_interp_full[dropped]
raw_at_ho = approx(t_irr, y_irr, xout = t_dropped)$y

rmse = function(a, b) sqrt(mean((a - b)^2, na.rm = TRUE))

cat(
  sprintf(
    "Held-out RMSE at %d dropped positions (bpm):\n",
    length(dropped)
  )
)

cat(
  sprintf(
    "  rLifting irregular            : %.2f\n",
    rmse(y_true_dropped, d_irr_at_ho)
  )
)

cat(
  sprintf(
    "  Interpolate + offline         : %.2f\n",
    rmse(y_true_dropped, d_interp_at_ho)
  )
)
cat(
  sprintf(
    "  Raw interpolation (no denoise): %.2f\n",
    rmse(y_true_dropped, raw_at_ho)
  )
)
```

```{r irr-roughness}
rough = function(x) sd(diff(x, differences = 2), na.rm = TRUE)

cat(sprintf("Roughness (sd of 2nd diff) at observed positions:\n"))
cat(sprintf("rLifting irregular: %.3f\n", rough(d_irr)))
cat(sprintf("Interp + offline: %.3f\n", rough(d_interp_at_obs)))
```

```{r irr-plot}
par(mfrow = c(1, 2))

t_irr_h = t_irr / 3600

plot(
  t_irr_h, y_irr, type = "l", col = "grey70", lwd = 0.5,
  xlab = "Time (h)", ylab = "Heart rate (bpm)",
  main = "rLifting — irregular grid"
)

lines(t_irr_h, d_irr, col = "#1565C0", lwd = 1.5)
legend(
  "topright", legend = c("Observed", "Denoised"),
  lwd = c(1, 2), col = c("grey70", "#1565C0"), bty = "n", cex = 0.8
)

plot(
  t_irr_h, y_irr, type = "l", col = "grey70", lwd = 0.5,
  xlab = "Time (h)", ylab = "Heart rate (bpm)",
  main = "Interpolate → denoise"
)

lines(t_irr_h, d_interp_at_obs, col = "#C62828", lwd = 1.5)
legend(
  "topright", legend = c("Observed", "Interp + denoise"),
  lwd = c(1, 2), col = c("grey70", "#C62828"), bty = "n", cex = 0.8
)

par(mfrow = c(1, 1))
```

The held-out RMSE confirms that rLifting's denoised curve is a better model of the
underlying signal at unobserved positions than either raw interpolation or
interpolate-then-denoise.  The roughness (sd of second differences) tells the same
story geometrically: the interp-then-denoise curve is roughly 3.5× choppier because
the denoiser preserves the artificial values that linear interpolation placed at
unobserved positions.  rLifting's predict step uses Lagrange interpolation conditioned
on actual positions, so it never synthesises data at missing points.

```{r irr-timing}
t_irr_100 = system.time(
  for (i in seq_len(100))
    denoise_signal_offline(
      y_irr, ls_cdf53,
      threshold_method = "universal",
      shrinkage = "semisoft",
      extension = "symmetric", t = t_irr
    )
)
cat(
  sprintf(
    "Irregular-grid per-call: %.2f ms\n",
    t_irr_100["elapsed"] / 100 * 1000
  )
)
```

The irregular-grid path is approximately twice the cost of the regular-grid path
(Lagrange coefficient evaluation at each step), but remains well under 1 ms.

## 4. Streaming mode — sample-by-sample monitoring

`new_wavelet_stream()` returns a closure that accepts one sample at a time,
maintaining an internal ring buffer between calls.  This is the API surface required
for a live sensor feed where the full signal is never available at once.

```{r stream-setup}
ls_haar = lifting_scheme("haar")

stream = new_wavelet_stream(
  ls_haar,
  extension = "symmetric",
  threshold_method = "universal",
  shrinkage = "semisoft"
)
```

```{r stream-run}
out_stream = numeric(length(BabyECG))
t_stream = system.time(
  for (i in seq_along(BabyECG))
    out_stream[i] = stream(BabyECG[i])
)

cat(
  sprintf(
    "Total for %d samples : %.1f ms\n",
    length(BabyECG), t_stream["elapsed"] * 1000
  )
)

cat(
  sprintf(
    "Per-sample latency   : %.1f µs\n",
    t_stream["elapsed"] / length(BabyECG) * 1e6
  )
)
```

```{r stream-convergence}
plot(
  t_hour, BabyECG, type = "l", col = "grey70", lwd = 0.6,
  xlab = "Time (hours after 21:17)", ylab = "Heart rate (bpm)",
  main = "Streaming denoising — haar / universal semisoft"
)

lines(t_hour, out_stream, col = "#2E7D32", lwd = 1.5)
abline(v = t_hour[256], lty = 2, col = "grey40")
text(t_hour[256] + 0.05, 175, "window full\n(~68 min)", cex = 0.75, adj = 0)

legend(
  "topright",
  legend = c("Raw", "Streaming denoised", "Warm-up boundary"),
  lwd = c(1, 2, 1), lty = c(1, 1, 2),
  col = c("grey70", "#2E7D32", "grey40"),
  bty = "n", cex = 0.8
)
```

At roughly 10 µs per sample, the streaming engine could process a signal sampled at
100 kHz in real time using less than 0.1 % of a single CPU core.  For the 16-second
sampling rate of BabyECG, the latency is negligible.  The dashed line marks the point
at which the ring buffer fills for the first time (256 samples = ~68 minutes);
estimates before that point use partial-window thresholds.

## 5. Summary

```{r summary-table, echo = FALSE}
t_off_100 = system.time(
  for (i in seq_len(100))
    denoise_signal_offline(
      BabyECG, ls_cdf53,
      threshold_method = "universal",
      shrinkage = "semisoft",
      extension = "symmetric"
    )
)

t_cas_100 = system.time(
  for (i in seq_len(100))
    denoise_signal_causal(
      BabyECG, ls_haar,
      threshold_method = "universal", shrinkage = "semisoft",
      extension = "symmetric", window_size = 256
    )
)

latency_us = t_stream["elapsed"] / length(BabyECG) * 1e6

ms_off = round(t_off_100["elapsed"] / 100 * 1000, 2)
ms_irr = round(t_irr_100["elapsed"] / 100 * 1000, 2)
ms_cas = round(t_cas_100["elapsed"] / 100 * 1000, 2)
ms_str = round(t_stream["elapsed"] * 1000, 1)
us_off = round(ms_off / length(BabyECG) * 1000, 2)
us_irr = round(ms_irr / length(y_irr)   * 1000, 2)
us_cas = round(ms_cas / length(BabyECG) * 1000, 2)
us_str = round(latency_us, 1)

summary_tbl = data.frame(
  Mode = c(
    "Offline (regular)", "Offline (irregular)",
    "Causal", "Stream"
  ),
  N = c(
    length(BabyECG), length(y_irr),
    length(BabyECG), length(BabyECG)
  ),
  `Per-call (ms)` = c(ms_off, ms_irr, ms_cas, ms_str),
  `Per-sample (µs)` = c(us_off, us_irr, us_cas, us_str),
  Wavelet = c("cdf53", "cdf53", "haar", "haar"),
  Irregular = c("no", "yes (30 % gap)", "no", "no"),
  check.names = FALSE
)

knitr::kable(
  summary_tbl, align = "lrrrrr",
  caption = paste0(
    "Computational summary — BabyECG ",
    "(N = 2 048, 16 s sampling)"
  )
)
```

All four modes operate well under 1 ms per call on a single-night cardiac trace.
The offline irregular path costs roughly twice the regular path, reflecting the
Lagrange coefficient computation at each lifting step but no memory allocation in
the hot path (`vignette("v03-causal-stream")` §3).

The streaming closure processes a sample in ~10 µs — the same order as
the causal batch mode — and is the appropriate API when samples arrive one at a time
from a live sensor rather than as a pre-recorded array.

## Further reading

- `vignette("v03-causal-stream")` — warm-up dynamics, `update_freq` tuning, window-size selection.
- `vignette("v05-irregular-grids")` — full irregular-grid API; per-wavelet benchmark table for seven irregular signals.
- `vignette("v07-benchmarks")` — cross-package MSE and throughput comparison on the Donoho–Johnstone test signals.
