This study is aimed at assessing muscle fatigue during a static contraction using multifractal analysis and found that the surface electromyographic (SEMG) signals characterized multiffactality during a static contr...This study is aimed at assessing muscle fatigue during a static contraction using multifractal analysis and found that the surface electromyographic (SEMG) signals characterized multiffactality during a static contraction. By applying the method of direct determination ofthef(a) singularity spectrum, the area of the multifractal spectrum of the SEMG signals was computed. The results showed that the spectrum area significantly increased during muscle fatigue. Therefore the area could be used as an assessor of muscle fatigue. Compared with the median frequency (MDF)--the most popular indicator of muscle fatigue, the spectrum area presented here showed higher sensitivity during a static contraction. So the singularity spectrum area is considered to be a more effective indicator than the MDF for estimating muscle fatigue.展开更多
An improved approximate entropy (ApEn) is presented and applied to characterize surface electromyography (sEMG) signals. In most previous experiments using nonlinear dynamic analysis, this certain processing was often...An improved approximate entropy (ApEn) is presented and applied to characterize surface electromyography (sEMG) signals. In most previous experiments using nonlinear dynamic analysis, this certain processing was often confronted with the problem of insufficient data points and noisy circumstances, which led to unsatisfactory results. Compared with fractal dimension as well as the standard ApEn, the improved ApEn can extract information underlying sEMG signals more efficiently and accu- rately. The method introduced here can also be applied to other medium-sized and noisy physiological signals.展开更多
The sEMG signals are collected from the vastus lateralis,vastus medialis,biceps femoris,and semitendinosus of lower extremity during level walking among control subjects and knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients,the latte...The sEMG signals are collected from the vastus lateralis,vastus medialis,biceps femoris,and semitendinosus of lower extremity during level walking among control subjects and knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients,the latter including mild,moderate and severe degree.The 5-fold cross-validation is used to measure the accuracy of the proposed analysis algorithm on collected sEMG recordings.For comparison,the more classical feature vectors of form factor,degree of skewness,kurtosis,and wavelet entropy are also tested.In experiment,the normalized energy ratio and marginal spectrum ratio achieve larger accuracy than the other features for all the four muscular groups.Moreover the accuracy of vastus medialis and biceps femoris are larger than that of vastus lateralis and semitendinosus.These results suggest that the normalized energy ratio and marginal spectrum ratio via the analysis of knee sEMG signals by HHT can server as characteristic parameters to easily classify osteoarthritis with noninvasive method.The more important muscular groups for maintaining the knee joint function are medialis and biceps femoris;as a result of that they should be exercise especially for rehabilitation.展开更多
The surface electromyography(sEMG)is one of the basic processing techniques to the gesture recognition because of its inherent advantages of easy collection and non-invasion.However,limited by feature extraction and c...The surface electromyography(sEMG)is one of the basic processing techniques to the gesture recognition because of its inherent advantages of easy collection and non-invasion.However,limited by feature extraction and classifier selection,the adaptability and accuracy of the conventional machine learning still need to promote with the increase of the input dimension and the number of output classifications.Moreover,due to the different characteristics of sEMG data and image data,the conventional convolutional neural network(CNN)have yet to fit sEMG signals.In this paper,a novel hybrid model combining CNN with the graph convolutional network(GCN)was constructed to improve the performance of the gesture recognition.Based on the characteristics of sEMG signal,GCN was introduced into the model through a joint voting network to extract the muscle synergy feature of the sEMG signal.Such strategy optimizes the structure and convolution kernel parameters of the residual network(ResNet)with the classification accuracy on the NinaPro DBl up to 90.07%.The experimental results and comparisons confirm the superiority of the proposed hybrid model for gesture recognition from the sEMG signals.展开更多
基金Project (No. 2005CB724303) supported by the National Basic Re-search Program (973) of China
文摘This study is aimed at assessing muscle fatigue during a static contraction using multifractal analysis and found that the surface electromyographic (SEMG) signals characterized multiffactality during a static contraction. By applying the method of direct determination ofthef(a) singularity spectrum, the area of the multifractal spectrum of the SEMG signals was computed. The results showed that the spectrum area significantly increased during muscle fatigue. Therefore the area could be used as an assessor of muscle fatigue. Compared with the median frequency (MDF)--the most popular indicator of muscle fatigue, the spectrum area presented here showed higher sensitivity during a static contraction. So the singularity spectrum area is considered to be a more effective indicator than the MDF for estimating muscle fatigue.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60171006) and the National Basic Research Program (973) of China (No. 2005CB724303)
文摘An improved approximate entropy (ApEn) is presented and applied to characterize surface electromyography (sEMG) signals. In most previous experiments using nonlinear dynamic analysis, this certain processing was often confronted with the problem of insufficient data points and noisy circumstances, which led to unsatisfactory results. Compared with fractal dimension as well as the standard ApEn, the improved ApEn can extract information underlying sEMG signals more efficiently and accu- rately. The method introduced here can also be applied to other medium-sized and noisy physiological signals.
基金Sponsored by the International Science and Technology Cooperation Project of China(Grant No.2009DFA32050)
文摘The sEMG signals are collected from the vastus lateralis,vastus medialis,biceps femoris,and semitendinosus of lower extremity during level walking among control subjects and knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients,the latter including mild,moderate and severe degree.The 5-fold cross-validation is used to measure the accuracy of the proposed analysis algorithm on collected sEMG recordings.For comparison,the more classical feature vectors of form factor,degree of skewness,kurtosis,and wavelet entropy are also tested.In experiment,the normalized energy ratio and marginal spectrum ratio achieve larger accuracy than the other features for all the four muscular groups.Moreover the accuracy of vastus medialis and biceps femoris are larger than that of vastus lateralis and semitendinosus.These results suggest that the normalized energy ratio and marginal spectrum ratio via the analysis of knee sEMG signals by HHT can server as characteristic parameters to easily classify osteoarthritis with noninvasive method.The more important muscular groups for maintaining the knee joint function are medialis and biceps femoris;as a result of that they should be exercise especially for rehabilitation.
文摘为了提高表面肌电信号(surface electromyography,sEMG)的手势分类准确率,通过惯性测量单元(inertial measurement unit,IMU)与采集姿态信号与sEMG的混合信号,提出了GRUBiLSTM双层网络的实时手势分类算法。第1层门控循环单元(gated recurrent unit,GRU)利用能量组合算子特征对混合信号进行突变点检测,定位运动态数据起始点;第2层双向长短时记忆循环神经网络(Bi-directional long short term memory,BiLSTM)使用能量核相图特征对运动态混合信号进行2个方向10种手势的分类。通过离线模型优化,分类算法识别时间低于40 ms,突变点检测精度88.7%以上,手势分类准确率为85%,信息传输率(informationtranslaterate, ITR)达到89.9 bits/min,与基于机器学习的分类算法相比,在准确率与计算效率上具有优势。
基金supported by the Development of Sleep Disordered Breathing Detection and Auxiliary Regulation System Project(No.2019I1009)。
文摘The surface electromyography(sEMG)is one of the basic processing techniques to the gesture recognition because of its inherent advantages of easy collection and non-invasion.However,limited by feature extraction and classifier selection,the adaptability and accuracy of the conventional machine learning still need to promote with the increase of the input dimension and the number of output classifications.Moreover,due to the different characteristics of sEMG data and image data,the conventional convolutional neural network(CNN)have yet to fit sEMG signals.In this paper,a novel hybrid model combining CNN with the graph convolutional network(GCN)was constructed to improve the performance of the gesture recognition.Based on the characteristics of sEMG signal,GCN was introduced into the model through a joint voting network to extract the muscle synergy feature of the sEMG signal.Such strategy optimizes the structure and convolution kernel parameters of the residual network(ResNet)with the classification accuracy on the NinaPro DBl up to 90.07%.The experimental results and comparisons confirm the superiority of the proposed hybrid model for gesture recognition from the sEMG signals.