Adaptive motor unit action potential clustering using shape and temporal information

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-49

  Stashuk, D ^a   Qu, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clustering motor unit action potentials; EMG signal decomposition; Motor unit firing time behaviour

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; ESTIMATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VECTORS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MOTOR UNIT ACTION POTENTIAL; MOTOR UNIT ACTION POTENTIAL TRAINS; MOTOR UNIT FIRING TIME BEHAVIOR; TEMPLATE SHAPES;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL;

EID: 0030024609     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02637021     Document Type: Article

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