Technology and instrumentation for detection and conditioning of the surface electromyographic signal: state of the art

R Merletti, A Botter, A Troiano, E Merlo, MA Minetto - Clinical biomechanics, 2009 - Elsevier
The aim of this review is to present the state of the art of the technology of detection and
conditioning systems for surface electromyography (sEMG). The first part of the manuscript …

Characterization of human motor units from surface EMG decomposition

D Farina, A Holobar - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motor units are the smallest functional units of our movements. The study of their activation
provides a window into the mechanisms of neural control of movement in humans. The …

Accurate identification of motor unit discharge patterns from high-density surface EMG and validation with a novel signal-based performance metric

A Holobar, MA Minetto, D Farina - Journal of neural engineering, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. A signal-based metric for assessment of accuracy of motor unit (MU) identification
from high-density surface electromyograms (EMG) is introduced. This metric, so-called pulse …

Multichannel blind source separation using convolution kernel compensation

A Holobar, D Zazula - IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies a novel decomposition technique, suitable for blind separation of linear
mixtures of signals comprising finite-length symbols. The observed symbols are first …

Decomposition of surface EMG signals

CJ De Luca, A Adam, R Wotiz… - Journal of …, 2006 - journals.physiology.org
This report describes an early version of a technique for decomposing surface
electromyographic (sEMG) signals into the constituent motor unit (MU) action potential …

A novel framework based on FastICA for high density surface EMG decomposition

M Chen, P Zhou - IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study presents a progressive FastICA peel-off (PFP) framework for high-density surface
electromyogram (EMG) decomposition. The novel framework is based on a shift-invariant …

Analysis of motor units with high-density surface electromyography

R Merletti, A Holobar, D Farina - Journal of electromyography and …, 2008 - Elsevier
Although the behaviour of individual motor units is classically studied with intramuscular
EMG signals, recently developed techniques allow its analysis also from EMG signals …

Fluctuations in isometric muscle force can be described by one linear projection of low‐frequency components of motor unit discharge rates

F Negro, A Holobar, D Farina - The Journal of physiology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of the study was to investigate the relation between linear transformations of motor
unit discharge rates and muscle force. Intramuscular (wire electrodes) and high‐density …

Estimating motor unit discharge patterns from high-density surface electromyogram

A Holobar, D Farina, M Gazzoni, R Merletti… - Clinical …, 2009 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: We systematically tested the capability of the Convolution Kernel
Compensation (CKC) method to identify motor unit (MU) discharge patterns from the …

Experimental analysis of accuracy in the identification of motor unit spike trains from high-density surface EMG

A Holobar, MA Minetto, A Botter… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The aim of this study was to compare the decomposition results obtained from high-density
surface electromyography (EMG) and concurrently recorded intramuscular EMG. Surface …