A fast and reliable technique for muscle activity detection from surface EMG signals

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 316-323

  Merlo, Andrea ^a   Farina, Dario ^a   Merletti, Roberto ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continuous wavelet transform (CWT); Gait analysis; Movement analysis; Muscle activation intervals; Muscle timing; Surface electromyography

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MUSCLE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

STANDARD DEVIATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TECHNIQUE; WAVEFORM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GAIT; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; THIGH;

EID: 0037339348     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2003.808829     Document Type: Article

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