The effect of accelerometer location on the classification of single-site forearm mechanomyograms

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Alves, Natasha ^a,b   Sejdić, Ervin ^a,b   Sahota, Bhupinder ^a,b   Chau, Tom ^a,b  

^a University of Toronto   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER SIGNALS; ACTIVATION STATE; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFIER TRAINING; FEATURE SELECTION; FLEXOR CARPI RADIALIS; LONGITUDINAL AXIS; MECHANOMYOGRAM; MUSCLE ACTIVITIES; PATTERN RECOGNITION METHOD; SENSOR PLACEMENT; SIGNAL FEATURES; SPATIAL LOCATION; TIME FREQUENCY FEATURES; TRANSVERSE AXIS; WRIST FLEXION;

CLASSIFIERS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MUSCLE; SENSORS;

ACCELEROMETERS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOMECHANICS; FOREARM; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICS;

ARTIFACTS; BIOMECHANICS; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLES; MYOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954624043     PISSN: 1475925X     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-9-23     Document Type: Article

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