Abstract
Information extracted from multiple channels of the surface myoelectric signal (MES) recording sites can be used as inputs to control systems for powered upper limb prostheses. For small, closely spaced muscles, such as the muscles in the forearm, the detected MES often contains contributions from more than one muscle, the contribution from each specific muscle being modified by the dispersive propagation through the volume conductor between the muscle and the detection points. In this paper, the measured raw MES signals are rotated by class-specific principal component matrices to spatially decorrelate the measured data prior to feature extraction. This "tunes" the data to allow a pattern recognition classifier to better discriminate the test motions. This processing technique was used to significantly (p < 0.01) reduce pattern recognition classification error for both intact limbed and transradial amputee subjects.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 4663634 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1407-1414 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 2009 |
Funding
Manuscript received February 18, 2008; revised May 18, 2008. First published October 31, 2008; current version published May 22, 2009. This work was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) under Discovery Grant 171368-03 and Grant 217354-01 and by the New Brunswick Foundation for Innovation and the Atlantic Innovation Fund. Asterisk indicates corresponding author.
Keywords
- Amputee
- Electromyography (EMG)
- Myoelectric
- Myoelectric signal (MES)
- Pattern recognition
- Principal components analysis
- Prostheses
- Tranrsradial
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biomedical Engineering