Surface electromyography signal processing and classification techniques

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 12431-12466

  Chowdhury, Rubana H ^a   Reaz, Mamun B I ^a   Bin Mohd Ali, Mohd Alauddin ^a   Bakar, Ashrif A A ^a   Chellappan, K ^a   Chang, T G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Electromyography; EMD; HOS; ICA; Noise source; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CLASSIFICATION ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; EMD; HOS; HUMAN MACHINE INTERACTION; NOISE SOURCE; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY SIGNALS; WAVELET;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

EID: 84884358843     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130912431     Document Type: Review

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