Title: Wavelet denoising and evaluation of electromyogram signal using statistical algorithm

Authors: Karan Veer; Ravinder Agarwal

Addresses: Department of Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala 147001, India ' Department of Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala 147001, India

Abstract: In this study, wavelet analysis has been exercised to understand the quality of surface electromyogram signal for class separability. The surface electromyogram signals were estimated with the following steps. First, the obtained signal was decomposed using wavelet transform. The decomposed coefficients were then analysed with threshold methods. With the appropriate choice of wavelet, it is possible to remove interference noise effectively in order to analyse the signal. This paper presents a comparative study of different Daubechies wavelets (db2-db14) family for analysis of arm motions. From the analysed results, it was inferred that wavelet db4 performs denoising the best among the wavelets and is suitable for accurate classification of surface electromyogram signal. Further, one-way repeated factorial Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) statistical technique was also implemented to investigate the voluntary muscular contraction relationship for different arm movements.

Keywords: electromyography; EMG signals; wavelet denoising; instrumentation; analysis of variance; ANOVA; electrodes; arm motions; noise; voluntary contractions; mean; median frequency; class separability; wavelet transform; muscular contraction.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBET.2014.066223

International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, 2014 Vol.16 No.4, pp.293 - 305

Received: 30 Apr 2014
Accepted: 18 Aug 2014

Published online: 25 Apr 2015 *

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