The effects of electrode size and orientation on the sensitivity of myoelectric pattern recognition systems to electrode shift

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2537-2544

  Young, Aaron J ^a,b   Hargrove, Levi J ^a,c   Kuiken, Todd A ^a,d  

^a REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrode shift; electromyography (EMG); pattern recognition; virtual reality prosthesis control

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; ELECTRODE CONTACTS; ELECTRODE SIZE; MUSCLE FIBER; POLE LOCATION; PROSTHESIS CONTROL; SHIFT-AND; SYSTEM ROBUSTNESS; SYSTEM USABILITY;

ALIGNMENT; CONTROLLABILITY; ELECTRODES; FIBERS; MUSCLE; MYOELECTRICALLY CONTROLLED PROSTHETICS; POLES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MYOELECTRICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 80052044427     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2159216     Document Type: Article

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