Detection of tremor bursts by a running second order moment function and analysis using interburst histograms

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-83

  Journée, Henricus Louis ^a   Postma, Alida Annechien ^b   Sun, Mingui ^c   Staal, Michiel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cogwheel phenomenon; EMG burst; IBIH; Interburst interval histogram; Parkinson's disease; Second order moment function; SOMF; Time scaling; Tremor

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS;

COGWHEEL PHENOMENON; INTERBURST INTERVAL HISTOGRAM; PARKINSON'S DISEASE; SECOND ORDER MOMENT FUNCTION; TIME SCALING;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY; TREMOR;

AGED; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PILOT PROJECTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TREMOR;

EID: 38149006151     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.12.005     Document Type: Article

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