“…Most of them are based on the definition of a threshold value, that is, when a characteristic of the signal overpasses a pre-defined value, the event is classified as a burst. This type of approach has been widely used for AE burst detection (Stern, 1972;Choudhury and Tandon, 2000;Thayoob et al, 2010;Nienhaus et al, 2012;Keshtgar and Modarres, 2013;Vicun˜a and Ho¨weler, 2013;Lopes et al, 2017;).…”