Enhancement of spectral analysis of myoelectric signals during static contractions using wavelet methods

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 670-684

  Karlsson, Stefan ^a   Yu, Jun ^a   Akay, Metin ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Autoregressive moving average (ARMA); Fourier transform; Myoelectric signal (ME); Power spectral density; Spectral estimation; Wavelet packets (WP); Wavelet shrinkage; Wavelet spectrum; Wavelet transform (WT); WP spectrum

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

AUTOREGRESSIVE MOVING AVERAGE; MYOELECTRIC SIGNALS; WAVELET PACKETS;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMOMETRY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYOELECTRICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; SPECTROSCOPY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032984392     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.764944     Document Type: Article

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