A novel channel selection method for multiple motion classification using high-density electromyography

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Yanjuan Geng²  Xiufeng Zhang¹  Yuan-Ting Zhang²  Guanglin Li² 

[1] National Research Center for Rehabilitation Technical Aids, Beijing, China

[2] Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, University Town of Shenzhen, CAS, 1068 Xueyuan Blvd., Shenzhen, China

关键词: Pattern recognition;    High-density EMG;    Multi-class common spatial pattern;    Channel selection method;    Myoelectric control;   

Others  :  1084659
DOI  :  10.1186/1475-925X-13-102

 received in 2014-03-06, accepted in 2014-07-14,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Selecting an appropriate number of surface electromyography (EMG) channels with desired classification performance and determining the optimal placement of EMG electrodes would be necessary and important in practical myoelectric control. In previous studies, several methods such as sequential forward selection (SFS) and Fisher-Markov selector (FMS) have been used to select the appropriate number of EMG channels for a control system. These exiting methods are dependent on either EMG features and/or classification algorithms, which means that when using different channel features or classification algorithm, the selected channels would be changed. In this study, a new method named multi-class common spatial pattern (MCCSP) was proposed for EMG selection in EMG pattern-recognition-based movement classification. Since MCCSP is independent on specific EMG features and classification algorithms, it would be more convenient for channel selection in developing an EMG control system than the exiting methods.

Methods

The performance of the proposed MCCSP method in selecting some optimal EMG channels (designated as a subset) was assessed with high-density EMG recordings from twelve mildly-impaired traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients. With the MCCSP method, a subset of EMG channels was selected and then used for motion classification with pattern recognition technique. In order to justify the performance of the MCCSP method against different electrode configurations, features and classification algorithms, two electrode configurations (unipolar and bipolar) as well as two EMG feature sets and two types of pattern recognition classifiers were considered in the study, respectively. And the performance of the proposed MCCSP method was compared with that of two exiting channel selection methods (SFS and FMS) in EMG control system.

Results

The results showed that in comparison with the previously used SFS and FMS methods, the newly proposed MCCSP method had better motion classification performance. Moreover, a fixed combination of the selected EMG channels was obtained when using MCCSP.

Conclusions

The proposed MCCSP method would be a practicable means in channel selection and would facilitate the design of practical myoelectric control systems in the active rehabilitation of mildly-impaired TBI patients and in other rehabilitation applications such as the multifunctional myoelectric prostheses for limb amputees.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Geng et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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