Decomposition of intramuscular EMG signals using a heuristic fuzzy expert system

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2180-2189

  Erim, Zeynep ^a   Lin, Winsean ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING   (United States)

^b REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potential (AP); Classification; Decomposition; Electromyography (EMG); Expert system; Fuzzy logic; Intramuscular; Motor unit (MU)

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY LOGIC; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

ACTION POTENTIAL (AP); CLASSIFICATION; DECOMPOSER; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY (EMG); ELECTROMYOGRAPHY SIGNALS; EMG SIGNALS; EXPERT SYSTEM; FUZZY EXPERT SYSTEM; FUZZY LOGICS; HUMAN OPERATORS; INTRAMUSCULAR; MOTOR UNIT (MU); MOTOR UNITS; THOUGHT PROCESS; USER INTERACTIONS; VISUAL INSPECTION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DECOMPOSER; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FUZZY SYSTEM; HEURISTIC FUZZY EXPERT SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOTOR UNIT; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 50049134495     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.923915     Document Type: Article

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