MUAP number estimates in surface EMG: Template-matching methods and their performance boundaries

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1007-1015

  Zhou, Ping ^a,b   Rymer, William Z ^a,b,c,d  

^a REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

MUAP superposition; Number of MUAPs; Surface electrode; Surface EMG; Template matching

Indexed keywords

NUMBER OF MOTOR UNIT ACTION POTENTIAL (MUAPS); SURFACE ELECTRODES; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAM (EMG); TEMPLATE MATCHING;

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MUSCLE; NEUROLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FINGER; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTONEURON; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FINGERS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 3843151427     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ABME.0000032463.26331.b3     Document Type: Article

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