Classification of Muscle Fatigue in Dynamic Contraction Using Surface Electromyography Signals and Multifractal Singularity Spectral Analysis

Author(s):  
Kiran Marri ◽  
Ramakrishnan Swaminathan

Muscle fatigue is a neuromuscular condition experienced during daily activities. This phenomenon is generally characterized using surface electromyography (sEMG) signals and has gained a lot of interest in the fields of clinical rehabilitation, prosthetics control, and sports medicine. sEMG signals are complex, nonstationary and also exhibit self-similarity fractal characteristics. In this work, an attempt has been made to differentiate sEMG signals in nonfatigue and fatigue conditions during dynamic contraction using multifractal analysis. sEMG signals are recorded from biceps brachii muscles of 42 healthy adult volunteers while performing curl exercise. The signals are preprocessed and segmented into nonfatigue and fatigue conditions using the first and last curls, respectively. The multifractal detrended moving average algorithm (MFDMA) is applied to both segments, and multifractal singularity spectrum (SSM) function is derived. Five conventional features are extracted from the singularity spectrum. Twenty-five new features are proposed for analyzing muscle fatigue from the multifractal spectrum. These proposed features are adopted from analysis of sEMG signals and muscle fatigue studies performed in time and frequency domain. These proposed 25 feature sets are compared with conventional five features using feature selection methods such as Wilcoxon rank sum, information gain (IG) and genetic algorithm (GA) techniques. Two classification algorithms, namely, k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) and logistic regression (LR), are explored for differentiating muscle fatigue. The results show that about 60% of the proposed features are statistically highly significant and suitable for muscle fatigue analysis. The results also show that eight proposed features ranked among the top 10 features. The classification accuracy with conventional features in dynamic contraction is 75%. This accuracy improved to 88% with k-NN-GA combination with proposed new feature set. Based on the results, it appears that the multifractal spectrum analysis with new singularity features can be used for clinical evaluation in varied neuromuscular conditions, and the proposed features can also be useful in analyzing other physiological time series.

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 1036
Author(s):  
Fuyuan Liao ◽  
Xueyan Zhang ◽  
Chunmei Cao ◽  
Isabella Yu-Ju Hung ◽  
Yanni Chen ◽  
...  

This study aimed to investigate the degree of regularity of surface electromyography (sEMG) signals during muscle fatigue during dynamic contractions and muscle recovery after cupping therapy. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study assessing both muscle fatigue and muscle recovery using a nonlinear method. Twelve healthy participants were recruited to perform biceps curls at 75% of the 10 repetitions maximum under four conditions: immediately and 24 h after cupping therapy (−300 mmHg pressure), as well as after sham control (no negative pressure). Cupping therapy or sham control was assigned to each participant according to a pre-determined counter-balanced order and applied to the participant’s biceps brachii for 5 min. The degree of regularity of the sEMG signal during the first, second, and last 10 repetitions (Reps) of biceps curls was quantified using a modified sample entropy (Ems) algorithm. When exercise was performed immediately or 24 h after sham control, Ems of the sEMG signal showed a significant decrease from the first to second 10 Reps; when exercise was performed immediately after cupping therapy, Ems also showed a significant decrease from the first to second 10 Reps but its relative change was significantly smaller compared to the condition of exercise immediately after sham control. When exercise was performed 24 h after cupping therapy, Ems did not show a significant decrease, while its relative change was significantly smaller compared to the condition of exercise 24 h after sham control. These results indicated that the degree of regularity of sEMG signals quantified by Ems is capable of assessing muscle fatigue and the effect of cupping therapy. Moreover, this measure seems to be more sensitive to muscle fatigue and could yield more consistent results compared to the traditional linear measures.


2020 ◽  
pp. 2150016
Author(s):  
Navaneethakrishna Makaram ◽  
P. A. Karthick ◽  
Venugopal Gopinath ◽  
Ramakrishnan Swaminathan

Surface electromyography (sEMG) is a non-invasive technique to assess the electrical activity of contracting skeletal muscles. sEMG-based muscle fatigue detection plays a key role in sports medicine, ergonomics and rehabilitation. These signals are random, multicomponent, nonlinear and the degree of fluctuations is higher in dynamic contractions. Hence, the extraction of reliable biomarkers remains a challenging task. In this work, an attempt has been made to differentiate non-fatigue, and fatigue conditions using nonlinear techniques, namely, binary and weighted Visibility Graph (VG) features. For this, signals are recorded from the biceps brachii muscle of 52 healthy adult volunteers. These signals are preprocessed, and the contractions associated with the non-fatigue and fatigue conditions are segmented. The graph transformation is performed, and first-order and second-order statistics, along with entropy measures, are extracted from the degree distribution. Parametric and non-parametric machine learning methods are applied for the classification. The results show that the proposed VG approach is able to capture the fluctuations of the signals in non-fatigue and fatigue conditions. Further, all extracted features exhibit a significant difference with [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text]. Maximum accuracy of 89.1% is achieved with information gain selected features and extreme learning machines classifier. Additionally, weighted VG features perform better than the binary version with a difference in the accuracy of 5%. It appears that the proposed approach could be used in real-time implementation for the monitoring of muscle fatigue conditions.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 319-328
Author(s):  
Ade Muchlis Maulana Anwar ◽  
Prihastuti Harsani ◽  
Aries Maesya

Population Data is individual data or aggregate data that is structured as a result of Population Registration and Civil Registration activities. Birth Certificate is a Civil Registration Deed as a result of recording the birth event of a baby whose birth is reported to be registered on the Family Card and given a Population Identification Number (NIK) as a basis for obtaining other community services. From the total number of integrated birth certificate reporting for the 2018 Population Administration Information System (SIAK) totaling 570,637 there were 503,946 reported late and only 66,691 were reported publicly. Clustering is a method used to classify data that is similar to others in one group or similar data to other groups. K-Nearest Neighbor is a method for classifying objects based on learning data that is the closest distance to the test data. k-means is a method used to divide a number of objects into groups based on existing categories by looking at the midpoint. In data mining preprocesses, data is cleaned by filling in the blank data with the most dominating data, and selecting attributes using the information gain method. Based on the k-nearest neighbor method to predict delays in reporting and the k-means method to classify priority areas of service with 10,000 birth certificate data on birth certificates in 2019 that have good enough performance to produce predictions with an accuracy of 74.00% and with K = 2 on k-means produces a index davies bouldin of 1,179.


2014 ◽  
Vol 701-702 ◽  
pp. 110-113
Author(s):  
Qi Rui Zhang ◽  
He Xian Wang ◽  
Jiang Wei Qin

This paper reports a comparative study of feature selection algorithms on a hyperlipimedia data set. Three methods of feature selection were evaluated, including document frequency (DF), information gain (IG) and aχ2 statistic (CHI). The classification systems use a vector to represent a document and use tfidfie (term frequency, inverted document frequency, and inverted entropy) to compute term weights. In order to compare the effectives of feature selection, we used three classification methods: Naïve Bayes (NB), k Nearest Neighbor (kNN) and Support Vector Machines (SVM). The experimental results show that IG and CHI outperform significantly DF, and SVM and NB is more effective than KNN when macro-averagingF1 measure is used. DF is suitable for the task of large text classification.


2022 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Rifki Indra Perwira ◽  
Bambang Yuwono ◽  
Risya Ines Putri Siswoyo ◽  
Febri Liantoni ◽  
Hidayatulah Himawan

State universities have a library as a facility to support students’ education and science, which contains various books, journals, and final assignments. An intelligent system for classifying documents is needed to ease library visitors in higher education as a form of service to students. The documents that are in the library are generally the result of research. Various complaints related to the imbalance of data texts and categories based on irrelevant document titles and words that have the ambiguity of meaning when searching for documents are the main reasons for the need for a classification system. This research uses k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) to categorize documents based on study interests with information gain features selection to handle unbalanced data and cosine similarity to measure the distance between test and training data. Based on the results of tests conducted with 276 training data, the highest results using the information gain selection feature using 80% training data and 20% test data produce an accuracy of 87.5% with a parameter value of k=5. The highest accuracy results of 92.9% are achieved without information gain feature selection, with the proportion of training data of 90% and 10% test data and parameters k=5, 7, and 9. This paper concludes that without information gain feature selection, the system has better accuracy than using the feature selection because every word in the document title is considered to have an essential role in forming the classification.


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