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Study on the methods of feature extraction based on electromyographic signal classification

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Electromyography (EMG) is a form of biological information, which is used in many fields to help people study human muscle movement, especially in the study of bionic hands. EMG signals can be used to explain the activity at a certain moment through the signal changes of human muscles, and it is a very complex signal, so processing it is very important. The process of EMG signals can be divided into acquisition, pre-processing, feature extraction, and classification. Not all signal channels are useful in EMG acquisition, and it is important to select useful signals among them. Therefore, this study proposes a feature extraction method to extract the most representative two-channel signals from the eight-channel signals. In this paper, the traditional principal component analysis method and support vector machine feature elimination are used to extract signal channels. At the same time, a new method, correlation heat map, is proposed to implement feature extraction method by using three methods, and three classification algorithms of K-nearest neighbor, random forest, and support vector machine are used to verify. The results show that the classification accuracy of the proposed method is better than that of the other two traditional methods.

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    Zhang, X., Zhang, M. Study on the methods of feature extraction based on electromyographic signal classification. Med Biol Eng Comput 61, 1773–1781 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11517-023-02812-3

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