Concentric and eccentric isokinetic muscle activity separated by paired pattern classification of wavelet transformed mechanomyograms

Biomedical Signal Processing and Control

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 94-101

  Beck, Travis W ^a   von Tscharner, Vinzenz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concentric; Eccentric; Mechanomyography; Pattern classification; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CONTROL ENGINEERING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CONCENTRIC; ECCENTRIC; INTENSITY PATTERNS; MECHANOMYOGRAPHY; MUSCLE ACTIVITIES; PATTERN CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES; RELAXATION PHASIS; WAVELET;

MUSCLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MYOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; VELOCITY;

EID: 63449091830     PISSN: 17468094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

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