Independent component analysis of high-density electromyography in muscle force estimation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 751-754

  Staudenmann, Didier ^a   Daffertshofer, Andreas ^a   Kingma, Idsart ^a   Stegeman, Dick F ^b   Van Dieën, Jaap H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Force estimation; Human; Independency; Principal component analysis; Redundancy; Surface electromyography; Variability

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MUSCLE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REDUNDANCY;

FORCE ESTIMATION; INDEPENDENCY; KINESIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; TRICEPS BRACHII;

INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 33947521094     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.889202     Document Type: Article

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