A new method for the extraction and classification of single motor unit action potentials from surface EMG signals

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 165-177

  Gazzoni, Marco ^a   Farina, Dario ^a   Merletti, Roberto ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continuous wavelet transform; Motor unit action potentials; Neural networks; Spatial sampling; Surface electromyography

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTRACTION; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 2942564121     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2004.01.002     Document Type: Article

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