Robust supervised classification of motor unit action potentials

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 75-82

  Stashuk, D ^a   Paoli, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classifying motor unit action potentials; EMG signal decomposition; Quantitative EMG

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

CERTAINTY ALGORITHM; MINIMUM EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE (MED) ALGORITHM; MOTOR UNIT ACTION POTENTIALS; SIGNAL DECOMPOSITION;

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ERROR; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0031985244     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02522861     Document Type: Article

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