Nonlinear analysis of surface EMG signal to assess muscle fatigue during isometric contraction




Fariba Biyouki, Saeed Rahati, Katri Laimi, Ali Shoeibi, Reza Boostani

Intelligent Systems Conference

Publisher11th Iranian Conference on Intelligent Systems, Tehran, Iran, 2013

Teheran, Iran

2013

Proceedings of 11th Intelligent Systems Conference

https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/2374044



The objective of the present study was to investigate the possible relationship between nonlinear parameters extracted from surface EMG (sEMG) signals and muscle force and fatigue. Our hypothesis was that changes in motor unit recruitment during muscle contraction and fatigue, affect sEMG distribution and the intractions in muscle. Thus, five features based on geometric aspects of time series trajectory and higher order statistics were extracted from sEMG signal, recorded from biceps brachii muscle of a healthy female volunteer during rest, sustained (fatiguing) 50% MVC, 100% MVC and recovery. Results obtained from correlation dimension (CD) and linearity test (sl) analyses showed that the values of these parameters are higher during rest and recovery states, indicating higher chaotic behaviour, while they decreased during MVCs. However, when fatigue occurred, these parameters increased slightly, again. On the other hand, test of non-Gaussianity based on negentropy showed the reverse pattern of CD and sl. Skweness and kurtosis values, which are the quantitative descriptors of probability densities, were positive and negative, respectively during rest and recovery, while this pattern reversed for MVCs.


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