You can go to the Panner under display tab in signal analyzer app, and then you can crop out your signal
How to cut the signal
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djoerig Hartono
on 30 Nov 2017
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on 7 Jul 2025

Dear All, I have waveform data in csv file in 'X' and 'Y' axis, the plot is on the figure attached. I want to remove the unneeded signal marked by arrows sign in order to get complete waveform signal. Is there any advice/better algorithm to remove the signal automatically ? My idea is to track the data in a loop then find the '0' value in the 'Y' axis and delete the rows before. Best regards.
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Image Analyst
on 30 Nov 2017
Edited: Image Analyst
on 29 Jun 2025
How about if you simply find the first and last time that y is negative?
index1 = find(y < 0, 1, 'first'); % Find left index
index2 = find(y < 0, 1, 'last'); % Find right index.
% Now crop signal
yCropped = y(index1:index2);
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Image Analyst
on 28 May 2018
Edited: Image Analyst
on 29 Jun 2025
I don't know what that means. Please reword the question.
1 is just a number I put in the variable name index1 to distinguish it from a different variable called index2. You could use other names if you want.
The 1 that is the second argument to the find function means to return 1 value where y is negative, not multiple indexes where it's negative.
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Supratim
on 29 Jun 2025
Moved: Image Analyst
on 30 Jun 2025
You can go to the Panner under display tab in signal analyzer app, and then you can crop out your signal
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Supratim
on 29 Jun 2025
Moved: Image Analyst
on 30 Jun 2025
You can go to the Panner under display tab in signal analyzer app, and then you can crop out your signal
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Supratim
on 29 Jun 2025
Moved: Image Analyst
on 7 Jul 2025
You can go to the Panner under display tab in signal analyzer app, and then you can crop out your signal
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Supratim
on 29 Jun 2025
Moved: Image Analyst
on 1 Jul 2025
You can go to the Panner under display tab in signal analyzer app, and then you can crop out your signal
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Supratim
on 29 Jun 2025
Moved: Image Analyst
on 2 Jul 2025
You can go to the Panner under display tab in signal analyzer app, and then you can crop out your signal
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