I am trying to bandpass a neural signal acquired at 20kHz between 0.5 and 100 Hz. I have tried to do it in two ways. The first way is to sequentially highpass and lowpass the signal and the second one is to use the bandpass function in Matlab. To my surprise, the results were dramatically different. See image below:
Here is the code:
clearclose allload('bandpass_vs_seq_lo_and_hi_pass','tr','fs') % loads variable called tr and fs
% tr is the signal vector and fs is the sampling rate, 20kHz
padlen=0.01; % padding length in secs to remove transients at signal start and end
padn=padlen*fs; % padding length in samples
f_lo=0.5; % lo cutoff
f_hi=100; % hi cutoff
tvec=(1/fs:1/fs:1/fs*length(tr));figureax1=subplot(3,1,1);ax2=subplot(3,1,2);ax3=subplot(3,1,3);% sequential highpass and lowpass filter
% hipass filter
nutr=[flipud(tr(1:padn));tr;flipud(tr(end-(padn-1):end))]; % prefixing and appending signal
[filtr,~]=highpass(nutr,f_lo,fs); filtr=filtr(padn+1:end-padn); % removing prefixed and appended parts
tr1=filtr; % lopass filter
nutr=[flipud(tr1(1:padn));tr1;flipud(tr1(end-(padn-1):end))]; [filtr2,~]=lowpass(nutr,f_hi,fs); filtr2=filtr2(padn+1:end-padn); tr1=filtr2; % bandpass filter
nutr=[flipud(tr(1:padn));tr;flipud(tr(end-(padn-1):end))]; [filtr,~]=bandpass(nutr,[f_lo,f_hi],fs); filtr=filtr(padn+1:end-padn); tr2=filtr; plot(ax1,tvec,tr) plot(ax2,tvec,tr1) plot(ax3,tvec,tr2) xlabel(ax3,'Time (s)') title(ax1,'Original signal, fs=20kHz') title(ax2,'Sequential high pass and lowpass (0.5 to 100 Hz)') title(ax3,'Bandpass (0.5 to 100 Hz)')
Can anyone shed light on what is going on here?
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