The application of the Hilbert spectrum to the analysis of electromyographic signals

Information Sciences

Volumn 178, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2176-2193

  Andrade, Adriano O ^a   Kyberd, Peter ^b   Nasuto, Slawomir J ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Empirical mode decomposition; Hilbert spectrum; Motor unit action potential; Spectrogram; Time frequency analysis; Wavelets; Wigner Ville distribution

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC SIGNALS; INSTANTANEOUS MEAN FREQUENCY (IMNF); WIGNER-VILLE DISTRIBUTION;

HILBERT SPACES;

EID: 39949084482     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2007.12.013     Document Type: Article

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