EMGTools, an adaptive and versatile tool for detailed EMG analysis

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 10 PART 1, 2011, Pages 2707-2718

  Nikolic, Miki ^a   Krarup, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Decomposition; EMG; firing pattern; quantitative MUAP analysis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SOLUTION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DECOMPOSITION ALGORITHM; DECOMPOSITION SYSTEM; DUAL CHANNEL; EMG; EMG SIGNAL; FIRING PATTERNS; FIXED THRESHOLD; NEEDLE ELECTRODES; QUANTITATIVE MUAP ANALYSIS; RECORDED SIGNALS; RESIDUAL SIGNALS; ROBUST SYSTEMS; THREE STAGES; VERSATILE TOOLS;

DECOMPOSITION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 80053205489     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2064773     Document Type: Article

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