Emg signal classification with effective features for diagnosis

Abstract

Electromyography (EMG) signals are broadly used in various clinical or biomedical applications, prosthesis or rehabilitation devices, Muscle-Computer Interface (MCI), Evolvable Hardware Chip (EHW) development and many other applications. Electromyography (EMG) signal records the myopathy from nonlinear subjects in both time domain and frequency domain. It becomes very difficult to classify these various statuses. In this paper, a feature extraction and classification method of healthy and myopathy EMG signals are proposed where two features have been extracted on both healthy and myopathy EMG. Mean Squared Error (MSE) has been calculated to observe which feature will give better classification result. Then SVM is used to classify the extracted results. To evaluate the proposed model, a standard dataset collected from physionet.org is used where it shows higher accuracy than the conventional methods.