Supervised mutual-information based feature selection for motor unit action potential classification

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 661-670

  Sheikholeslami, N ^a   Stashuk, D ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

EMG signal decomposition; Feature selection; Mutual information; Quantitative EMG

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

MOTOR UNIT ACTION POTENTIAL (MUAP); SIGNAL DECOMPOSITION;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031281451     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02510975     Document Type: Article

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