Improved maximum frequency estimation with application to instantaneous mean frequency estimation of surface electromyography

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1541-1546

  Östlund, Nils ^a,b   Yu, Jun ^b,c   Karlsson, J Stefan ^a,b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Electromyography (EMG); Instantaneous mean frequency; Maximum frequency; Varying signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

CROSSLINKING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PROBABILITY; SIGNALING;

BANDLIMITED SIGNAL; THRESHOLD-CROSSING METHOD (TCM);

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; WHITE NOISE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4143144085     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.827930     Document Type: Article

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