A statistical method for the measurement of muscle activation intervals from surface myoelectric signal during gait

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 287-299

  Bonato, Paolo ^a   D'Alessio, Tommaso ^a   Knaflitz, Marco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Gait analysis; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAIT ANALYSIS; MUSCLE; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DOUBLE THRESHOLD DETECTOR; MUSCLE ACTIVATION; MYOELECTRIC SIGNAL;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAIT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOELECTRICITY; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GAIT; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0032032877     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.661154     Document Type: Article

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