An automated ECG-artifact removal method for trunk muscle surface EMG recordings

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 840-848

  Mak, Joseph N F ^a   Hu, Yong ^a   Luk, Keith D K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Automated; ECG artifact; ICA; Surface EMG

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT DETECTION; ARTIFACT REMOVAL; AUTOMATED; AUTOMATED DETECTION; BUTTERWORTH; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA SETS; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; DETECTION RATES; ECG ARTIFACT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY SIGNALS; ICA; INDEPENDENT COMPONENTS; SIMULATED DATA; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; SURFACE EMG; TRUNK MUSCLE; VISUAL INSPECTION;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES; HIGH PASS FILTERS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; MUSCLE; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; AUTOMATION; BACK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MUSCLES; MYOCARDIUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77956419221     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2010.05.007     Document Type: Article

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