Continuous and simultaneous estimation of finger kinematics using inputs from an EMG-to-muscle activation model

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ngeo, Jimson G ^a,b   Tamei, Tomoya ^a   Shibata, Tomohiro ^a,b  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Finger kinematics; Gaussian process regression; Muscle activation model; Neural networks; Surface electromyography (EMG)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROMYOGRAPH; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGER; FINGER JOINT; FOREARM; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; KINEMATICS; MACHINE LEARNING; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MYOELECTRIC CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; BIOMECHANICS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 84929581844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17430003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-0003-11-122     Document Type: Article

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