EMAT noise suppression using information fusion in stationary wavelet packets.

An important issue in ultrasonic nondestructive testing is the detection of flaw echoes in the presence of background noise created by instrumentation and by clutter noise. Signal averaging, autoregressive analysis, spectrum analysis, matched filtering, and the wavelet transform have all been used to filter noise in ultrasonic signals. Widely-used wavelet threshold estimation algorithms are not designed for electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) pulse-echo signals, and therefore do not exploit their unique impulse nature.