The application of cepstral coefficients and maximum likelihood method in EMG pattern recognition [movements classification]
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
- Vol. 42 (8) , 777-785
- https://doi.org/10.1109/10.398638
Abstract
A new technique for classifying patterns of movement via electromyographic (EMG) signals is presented. Two methods (conventional autoregressive (AR) coefficients and cepstral coefficients) for extracting features from EMG signals and three classification algorithms (Euclidean Distance Measure (EDM), Weighted Distance Measure (WDM), and Maximum Likelihood Method (MLM)) for discriminating signals representative of broad classes of movements are described and compared. These three classifiers are derived from Bayes classifier with some assumptions, the relationship among them is discussed. The conventional MLM is modified to avoid heavy matrix inversion. Six able-bodied subjects with two pairs of surface electrodes located on bilateral sternocleidomastoid and upper trapezius muscles were studied in the experiment. The EMG signals of 20 repetitions of 10 motions were analyzed for each subject. Experimental results showed that mean recognition rate of the cepstral coefficients was at least 5% superior to that of the AR coefficients. The improvement achieved by the cepstral method was statistically significant for all the three classifiers. Reasons for the superiority of cepstral features were investigated from the feature space and frequency domain, respectively. The cepstral coefficients owned better cluster separability in feature space and they emphasized the more informative part in the frequency domain. The discrimination rate of the MLM was the highest among three classifiers. Incorporation of the cepstral features with the MLM could reduce the misclassification rate by 10.6% when compared with the combination of AR coefficients and EDM. Proper choice of five of ten motions could further raise the recognition rate to more than 95%.Keywords
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