Uterine electromyography signal feature extraction and classification

International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 136-146

  Lu, Nan ^a   Wang, Jihong ^b   McDermott, Isobel ^c   Thornton, Steve ^c   Vatish, Manu ^c   Randeva, Harpal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ANN; Artificial neural network; Uterine electromyography; Uterine EMG; Wavelet packet energy; Wavelet transform; WPE

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK METHODS; EFFECTIVE ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY SIGNALS; FRACTAL-DIMENSION VALUE; HIGH FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; PHASE SPACE RECONSTRUCTION; UTERINE EMG; WAVELET PACKET ENERGIES;

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 70350778380     PISSN: 17466172     EISSN: 17466180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMIC.2009.024330     Document Type: Article

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