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However, these criteria can only describe the strength of transient impulses, and cannot differentiate fault-related impulses and interference impulses that are cyclically generated in the signals. Additionally, these criteria are easily affected by the independent transitions and background noise in industrial locales. Therefore, the large values of the criteria may not appear in the optimal frequency band. To overcome these problems, a new method, referred to as multiband envelope spectra extraction (MESE), is proposed in this paper, which can extract all repetitive transient features in the signals. The novelty of MESE lies in the following aspects: (1) it can fuse envelope spectra at multiple narrow bands. The potential bands are selected based on Jarque-Bera statistics of narrowband envelope spectra; and (2) fast independent component analysis (fastICA) is introduced to extract the independent source spectra, which are fault- or interference-related. The multi-band strategy will preserve all impulse features and make the method more robust. Meanwhile, as a blind source separation technique, the fastICA can suppress some in-band noise and make the diagnosis more accurate. Several simulated and experimental signals are used to validate the efficiency of the proposed method. The results show that MESE is effective for enhanced fault diagnosis of rolling element bearings. 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