Biomedical Signal Processing / Medical Signal Processing / Biosignal Processing
Afarin Nazemi; Ali Maleki
Volume 8, Issue 4 , February 2015, , Pages 411-420
Abstract
Classification of distal limb movements based on surface electromyography (sEMG) of proximal muscles is an important issue in the control of myoelectric hand prosthesis. In most of previous studies, classification of a limited number of hand motions is investigated. In this paper, we have used NINAPRO ...
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Classification of distal limb movements based on surface electromyography (sEMG) of proximal muscles is an important issue in the control of myoelectric hand prosthesis. In most of previous studies, classification of a limited number of hand motions is investigated. In this paper, we have used NINAPRO database containing kinematics and sEMG of upper limbs while performing 52 finger, hand and wrist movements. We evaluated performance of LDA and LS-SVM with RBF kernel classifiers using different combination of features. First by windowing the signal with two different methods, the major part of the signal was selected and eight various temporal features (MAV, IAV, RMS, WL, E, ER1, ER2, CC) were extracted. Then performance of each classifier with single, double and multiple combinations of features was evaluated. For LDA classifier, the best average classification accuracy of 84.23% was achived for first windowing method and MAV (or IAV)+CC features, The corresponding accuracy for LS-SVM classifier with second windowing method and IAV+MAV+RMS+WL features, was 85.19%.
