Evaluation of methods for extraction of the volitional EMG in dynamic hybrid muscle activation

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation - 2006
E. Langzam1, Eli Isakov2, J. Mizrahi3
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
2Loewenstein Rehabilitation Center, Raanana, Israel
3Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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AbstractBackgroundHybrid muscle activation is a modality used for muscle force enhancement, in which muscle contraction is generated from two different excitation sources: volitional and external, by means of electrical stimulation (ES). Under hybrid activation, the overall EMG signal is the combination of the volitional and ES-induced components. In this study, we developed a computational scheme to extract the volitional EMG envelope from the overall dynamic EMG signal, to serve as an input signal for control purposes, and for evaluation of muscle forces.MethodsA "synthetic" database was created fromin-vivoexperiments on the Tibialis Anterior of the right foot to emulate hybrid EMG signals, including the volitional and induced components. The database was used to evaluate the results obtained from six signal processing schemes, including seven different modules for filtration, rectification and ES component removal. The schemes differed from each other by their module combinations, as follows: blocking window only, comb filter only, blocking window and comb filter, blocking window and peak envelope, comb filter and peak envelope and, finally, blocking window, comb filter and peak envelope.Results and conclusionThe results showed that the scheme including all the modules led to an excellent approximation of the volitional EMG envelope, as extracted from the hybrid signal, and underlined the importance of the artifact blocking window module in the process.The results of this work have direct implications on the development of hybrid muscle activation rehabilitation systems for the enhancement of weakened muscles.

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