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Robust EMG pattern recognition with electrode donning/doffing and multiple confounding factors

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Abstract

Traditional electromyography (EMG) pattern recognition did not take into account confounding factors such as electrode shifting, force variation, limb posture, etc., which lead to a great gap between academic research and clinical practice. In this paper, we investigated the robustness of EMG pattern recognition under conditions of electrode shifting, force varying, limb posture changing, and dominant/non-dominant hand switching. In feature extraction, we proposed a method for threshold optimization based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). Compared with the traditional trail & error method, it can largely increase the classification accuracy (CA) by 10.2%. In addition, the hybrid features integrated with discrete Fourier transform (DFT), wavelet transform (WT), and wavelet packet transform (WPT) were proposed, which increased the CA by 30.5%, 25.4%, 22.9%, respectively. We introduced probabilistic neural network (PNN) as a new classifier for EMG pattern recognition, and reported the CA’s obtained by a large variety of features and classifiers. The results showed that the combination of DFT_MAV2 (a novel feature based on DFT) and PNN reached the best CA (45.5%, 14 motions, validated on different hands without re-training).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Robotics and Applications - 10th International Conference, ICIRA 2017, Proceedings
EditorsHonghai Liu, YongAn Huang, Hao Wu, Zhouping Yin
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages413-424
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783319652979
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event10th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2017 - Wuhan, China
Duration: 16 Aug 201718 Aug 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10464 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityWuhan
Period16/08/1718/08/17

Keywords

  • Dynamic limb posture
  • Electrode shifting
  • Feature extraction
  • Myoelectric signal
  • Pattern recognition

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