Smart system for prediction of accurate surface electromyography signals using an artificial neural network

Dorgham, Osama, Al-Mherat, Ibrahim, Al-Shaer, Jawdat, Bani-Ahmad, Sulieman and Laycock, Stephen (2019) Smart system for prediction of accurate surface electromyography signals using an artificial neural network. Future Internet, 11 (1). ISSN 1999-5903

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Abstract

Bioelectric signals are used to measure electrical potential, but there are different types of signals. The electromyography (EMG) is a type of bioelectric signal used to monitor and recode the electrical activity of the muscles. The current work aims to model and reproduce surface EMG (SEMG) signals using an artificial neural network. Such research can aid studies into life enhancement for those suffering from damage or disease affecting their nervous system. The SEMG signal is collected from the surface above the bicep muscle through dynamic (concentric and eccentric) contraction with various loads. In this paper, we use time domain features to analyze the relationship between the amplitude of SEMG signals and the load. We extract some features (e.g., mean absolute value, root mean square, variance and standard deviation) from the collected SEMG signals to estimate the bicep’ muscle force for the various loads. Further, we use the R-squared value to depict the correlation between the SEMG amplitude and the muscle loads by linear fitting. The best performance the ANN model with 60 hidden neurons for three loads used (3 kg, 5 kg and 7 kg) has given a mean square error of 1.145, 1.3659 and 1.4238, respectively. The R-squared observed are 0.9993, 0.99999 and 0.99999 for predicting (reproduction step) of smooth SEMG signals.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Interactive Graphics and Audio
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	12 Apr 2019 12:30
Last Modified:	20 Apr 2023 06:32
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/70552
DOI:	10.3390/fi11010025

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