The clinical community has long shown interest in the concept of extracting as many motor unit action potentials (MUAPs) as possible from an intramuscular electromyographic (EMG) signal. Adrian and Bronk (1929) developed the first concentric needle electrode to identify both shape and firing rate of the MUAPs. Subsequent manual approaches of graphically measuring and quantifying the EMG signal ...

Preterm delivery increases the risk of infant mortality and morbidity, and therefore developing reliable methods for predicting its likelihood are of great importance. Previous work using uterine electromyography (EMG) recordings has shown that they may provide a promising and objective way for predicting risk of preterm delivery. However, to date attempts at utilizing computational approaches ...

Prompted by the observation that the slope of the relationship between average rectified electromyography (EMG) and the ensemble activation rate of a pool of motor units progressively decreased (showing a downward nonlinearity), an experimental study was carried out to test the widely held notion that the EMG is the simple algebraic sum of motor-unit action-potential trains. The experiments wer...

removal of artifacts from bio-signals is a necessary step before automatic processing and obtaining clinical information. recently, many applications of empirical mode decomposition (emd) on biomedical researches have been presented that artifact reduction from bio-signals is one of them. emd separates a time series into finite numbers of its individual oscillations, which are called intrinsic ...