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Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B (Biomedicine & Biotechnology)  2005, Vol. 6 Issue ( 8): 22-    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.2005.B0844
    
Classification of surface EMG signal with fractal dimension
HU Xiao, WANG Zhi-zhong, REN Xiao-mei
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200030, China
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Abstract  Surface EMG (electromyography) signal is a complex nonlinear signal with low signal to noise ratio (SNR). This paper is aimed at identifying different patterns of surface EMG signals according to fractal dimension. Two patterns of surface EMG signals are respectively acquired from the right forearm flexor of 30 healthy volunteers during right forearm supination (FS) or forearm pronation (FP). After the high frequency noise is filtered from surface EMG signal by a low-pass filter, fractal dimension is calculated from the filtered surface EMG signal. The results showed that the fractal dimensions of filtered FS surface EMG signals and those of filtered FP surface EMG signals distribute in two different regions, so the fractal dimensions can represent different patterns of surface EMG signals.

Key wordsSurface EMG signal      Fractal dimension      Correlation dimension      Self-similarity      GP algorithm     
Received: 04 January 2005     
CLC:  R318.04  
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HU Xiao, WANG Zhi-zhong, REN Xiao-mei. Classification of surface EMG signal with fractal dimension. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B (Biomedicine & Biotechnology), 2005, 6( 8): 22-.

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