Filtering the surface EMG signal: Movement artifact and baseline noise contamination

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1573-1579

  De Luca, Carlo J ^a,b   Donald Gilmore, L ^b   Kuznetsov, Mikhail ^b   Roy, Serge H ^b  

^a MA 02215   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseline noise; EMG signal; Filtering; Movement artifact

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION RATE; BAND PASS; BODY DYNAMICS; BUTTERWORTH FILTER; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CORNER FREQUENCY; ELECTRODE INTERFACE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC; EMG SIGNAL; EXTERNAL SOURCES; FILTER SPECIFICATION; FREQUENCY SPECTRA; LOW FREQUENCY; MECHANICAL PERTURBATIONS; MODERN TECHNOLOGIES; MOVEMENT ARTIFACTS; NOISE CONTAMINATION; NOISE SIGNALS; NOISE SOURCE; REDUCING NOISE; SENSOR CONFIGURATIONS; SURFACE EMG;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BIOMECHANICS; IIR FILTERS; MUSCLE; SPECTROSCOPY;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL FILTERING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MALE; MOVEMENT ARTIFACT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NOISE CONTAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKIN ELECTRODE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952585653     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2010.01.027     Document Type: Article

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