Electromyogram amplitude estimation with adaptive smoothing window length

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 717-729

  Clancy, Edward A ^a  

^a LIBERTY MUTUAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SAFETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological system modeling; Biomedical signal processing; Electromyogram (EMG) amplitude estimation; Electromyography; Modeling; Myoelectric signal processing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

AMPLITUDE ESTIMATION; SMOOTHING WINDOW;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MYOELECTRIC CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VARIANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTIFACTS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOTONIC CONTRACTION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033055670     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.764948     Document Type: Article

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