基于卷积混合盲源分离技术的表面肌电信号分解研究

根据表面肌电信号（SEMG）形成的生理学特性，采用一种基于卷积混合过程的盲源分离技术来分析隐含在SEMG信号中的运动单位动作电位信息，利用仿真的SEMG信号对这种算法的分解性能进行实验研究，并与采用瞬时混合过程的独立分量分析（ICA）算法的分解性能进行比较，同时将该算法应用于真实SEMG信号的分解实验。研究结果表明，无论是对模拟SEMG信号还是真实SEMG信号，采用卷积混合盲源分离技术的分解方法均能得到较明显的分解效果，且该方法较符合表面肌电信号的形成过程，因而具有重要的研究价值。     

二阶统计量盲分离技术在表面肌电信号分解过程中的应用

采用基于二阶统计量的盲源分离算法对多导表面肌电信号进行处理,实现噪声的分离和表面肌电信号的初步分解.实验结果表明,无论是对仿真表面肌电信号还是真实表面肌电信号,二阶盲分离方法具有良好的处理结果,其中,SEONS算法的分解性能最佳.     

基于小波分析与神经网络相结合的表面肌电信号识别的研究

表面肌电信号是从人体骨骼肌表面通过电极记录下来的神经肌肉活动发放的生物电信号,具有非平稳性和复杂性的特点。本研究通过使用小波分析与神经网络相结合的方法,识别正常肌电信号与疲劳肌电信号。实验表明,将小波分解后的肌电信号代替原始肌电信号,能明显提高神经网络对肌电信号的识别准确率。     

独立分量分析在脑电信号处理中的应用及研究进展

独立分量分析(independent component analysis,ICA)方法是从一组观测信号中提取统计独立分量的方法.因为用这种方法分解出的各信号分量之间是相互独立的,而测得的脑电信号往往包含若干相对独立的成分,所以用它来分解脑电信号,所得的结果更具有生理意义,有利于去除干扰和伪差.本文简要地回顾了ICA的发展历史和主要算法,综述了它在脑电信号处理中的应用及研究进展,并指出了需要进一步研究解决的问题.     

基于小波变换和独立分量分析相结合的癫痫脑电分析

临床上分析癫痫脑电信号非常重要。由于临床记录的癫痫脑电信号中含有大量的伪迹干扰,特别是肌电伪迹,所采集的脑电信号无法正确反映大脑的生理及病理状况。本研究利用小波变换的多分辨率特性和独立分量分析(ICA)的盲源分离特性,把用连续小波变换分解的脑电子带信号作为ICA输入,经ICA分离后,有效地消除了癫痫脑电中的肌电伪迹,并分离出了癫痫样特征波,效果理想。     

小波变换在表面肌电信号分类中的应用

针对肌电信号的非平稳特性,采用小波变换方法对表面肌电信号进行分析。通过奇异值分解有效地提取信号特征进行模式识别,能够成功地从掌长肌和肱桡肌采集的两道表面肌电信号中识别展拳、握拳、前臂摧旋、前壁外旋四种运动模式。实验表明,基于小波变换的奇异值分解方法是一种稳定、有效的特征提取方法、为非平稳生理信号的分析提供了新的手段。     

基于扩展Infomax 独立分量分析算法的脑电信号消噪

背景：脑电信号能够反映大脑不同的生理病理状态,但在采集和分析处理过程中极易受到各种噪声的干扰,如眼球运动、眨眼、心电、肌电等,这些噪声的存在严重影响了脑电信号的分析和处理。 目的：介绍了一种基于扩展Infomax的独立分量分析方法,并用于脑电信号消噪。 方法：通过扩展Infomax算法的迭代求得分离矩阵,采用去除噪声分量后的独立成分重构需要记录的脑电信号,观察Matlab仿真得到的去噪后的脑电信号,同时比较去噪前后各导联脑电信号与眼电信号的相关性。 结果与结论：使用扩展Infomax 独立分量分析算法能够成功地去除多导脑电信号中的眼电干扰。再比较去噪前后各导联脑电信号的功率谱,可以发现使用扩展Infomax独立分量分析算法同时也能够成功地去除多导脑电信号中的工频干扰,且对脑电信号中的其他有用信号几乎没有破坏。     

独立分量分析和小波熵在动作模式分类中的应用

在表面肌电信号(electromyography,EMG)中,各类动作的识别是一个重要研究方向.本文采用独立分量分析independent component analysis,ICA)对肌电信号进行处理,消除各动作信号之间的相互线性耦合叠加,并采用信号的小波熵作为特征向量进行模式识别.试验表明,在对信号进行先期ICA处理以后,动作模式的识别效果较好.此方法也可应用于其他生理信号的识别分类.     

应用独立分量分析去除体表肌电中的心电干扰

体表肌电特别是从躯干获得的体表肌电往往受到被测对象自身心电信号的严重干扰。本文利用一种基于独立分量分析(ICA)的去噪方法,去除体表肌电中的心电干扰。该方法将多通道体表肌电进行独立分量分解,并用高通滤波器处理所分解出的心电独立分量以尽可能地保留其中的肌电成分,进而将去除心电干扰后的所有独立分量反向投影回原始信号空间得到去噪后的信号。仿真信号的处理结果表明,当高通滤波器的截止频率为30Hz时,该方法在有效去除心电干扰的同时使体表肌电的保真度达到最大。同时讨论了将信号的峰度(Kurtosis)值作为自动判别心电分量和肌电分量的标准的可能性。     

HHT及其在膝骨性关节炎诊治中的应用

研究膝关节周围肌肉功能水平的改变对膝骨性关节炎的影响。运用Noraxon MyoResearch软件和希尔伯特-黄变换(hilbert-huang transformation,HHT)方法对膝骨性关节炎患者膝关节周围肌肉的表面肌电信号进行处理分析。结果表明:表面肌电信号经Noraxon MyoResearch软件分析,发现其振幅均值越大,肌肉功能水平越好;功能水平越好的肌肉,其表面肌电信号经HHT方法处理后,所得的IMF分量的能量也越高。说明采用HHT方法与Noraxon MyoResearch分析得到的结论是一致的。可以采用HHT方法对膝骨性关节炎患者的肌肉功能水平进行量化评价。     

Limitations and applications of ICA for surface electromyogram

Surface electromyogram (SEMG) has numerous applications, but the presence of artefacts and noise, especially at low level of muscle activity make the recordings unreliable. Spectral and temporal overlap can make the removal of artefacts and noise, or separation of relevant signals from other bioelectric signals extremely difficult. Individual muscles may be considered as independent at the local level and this makes an argument for separating the signals using independent component analysis (ICA). In the recent past, due to the easy availability of ICA tools, numbers of researchers have attempted to use ICA for this application. This paper reports research conducted to evaluate the use of ICA for the separation of muscle activity and removal of the artefacts from SEMG. It discusses some of the conditions that could affect the reliability of the separation and evaluates issues related to the properties of the signals and number of sources. The paper also identifies the lack of suitable measure of quality of separation for bioelectric signals and it recommends and tests a more robust measure of separation. The paper also reports tests using Zibulevsky's technique of temporal plotting to identify number of independent sources in SEMG recordings. The theoretical analysis and experimental results demonstrate that ICA is suitable for SEMG signals. The results identify the unsuitability of ICA when the number of sources is greater than the number of recording channels. The results also demonstrate the limitations of such applications due to the inability of the system to identify the correct order and magnitude of the signals. The paper determines the suitability of the use of error measure using simulated mixing matrix and the estimated unmixing matrix as a means identifying the quality of separation of the output. The work demonstrates that even at extremely low level of muscle contraction, and with filtering using wavelets and band pass filters, it is not possible to get the data sparse enough to identify number of independent sources using Zibulevs.ky's technique.     

An automated ECG-artifact removal method for trunk muscle surface EMG recordings

This study aimed at developing a method for automated electrocardiography (ECG) artifact detection and removal from trunk electromyography signals. Independent Component Analysis (ICA) method was applied to the simulated data set of ECG-corrupted surface electromyography (SEMG) signals. Independent Components (ICs) correspond to ECG artifact were then identified by an automated detection algorithm and subsequently removed. The detection performance of the algorithm was compared to that by visual inspection, while the artifact elimination performance was compared with Butterworth high pass filter at 30 Hz cutoff (BW HPF 30). The automated ECG-artifact detection algorithm successfully recognized the ECG source components in all data sets with a sensitivity of 100% and specificity of 99%. Better performance indicated by a significantly higher correlation coefficient (p < 0.001) with the original EMG recordings was found in the SEMG data cleaned by the ICA-based method, than that by BW HPF 30. The automated ECG-artifact removal method for trunk SEMG recordings proposed in this study was demonstrated to produce a very good detection rate and preserved essential EMG components while keeping its distortion to minimum. The automatic nature of our method has solved the problem of visual inspection by standard ICA methods and brings great clinical benefits.     

基于多尺度最大李雅普诺夫指数的表面肌电信号模式识别

为了提高动作表面肌电信号的识别率,提出一种将最大李雅普诺夫指数和多尺度分析结合的方法。从非线性和非平稳的角度出发,引入多尺度最大李雅普诺夫指数特征,并应用到人体前臂6类动作表面肌电信号的模式识别中。首先利用希尔伯特-黄变换,对原始信号进行经验模态分解,即多尺度分解;然后利用非线性时间序列分析方法,计算多尺度最大李雅普诺夫指数;最后将多尺度最大李雅普诺夫指数作为特征向量,输入支持向量机进行识别。平均识别率达到97.5%,比利用原始信号的最大李雅普诺夫指数进行识别时提高了3.9%。结果表明,利用多尺度最大李雅普诺夫指数对动作表面肌电信号进行模式识别效果良好。     

A hybrid method of application of independent component analysis to in vivo 1H MR spectra of childhood brain tumours

Independent component analysis (ICA) can automatically extract individual metabolite, macromolecular and lipid (MMLip) components from a series of in vivo MR spectra. The traditional feature extraction (FE)-based ICA approach is limited, in that a large sample size is required and a combination of metabolite and MMLip components can appear in the same independent component. The alternative ICA approach, based on blind source separation (BSS), is weak when dealing with overlapping peaks. Combining the advantages of both BSS and FE methods may lead to better results. Thus, we propose an ICA approach involving a hybrid of the BSS and FE techniques for the automated decomposition of a series of MR spectra. Experiments were performed on synthesised and patient in vivo childhood brain tumour MR spectra datasets. The hybrid ICA method showed an improvement in the decomposition ability compared with BSS-ICA or FE-ICA, with an increased correlation between the independent components and simulated metabolite and MMLip signals. Furthermore, we were able to automatically extract metabolites from the patient MR spectra dataset that were not in commonly used basis sets (e.g. guanidinoacetate).     

独立分量分析及其在生物医学工程中的应用

:独立分量分析 ( Independent Component Analysis,简记 ICA)是信号分解技术的新发展。ICA与 PCA(主分量分析 )或 SVD(奇异值分解 )的主要不同是 :后者分解得的各分量只是互不相关 ,而前者则要求各分量相互统计独立。体表测量得的信号往往包含若干相对独立的成分 ,因此采用ICA技术来分解 ,所得结果往往更有生理意义 ,有利于去除干扰和伪迹。本文简短地回顾 ICA的基本原理、判据、算法和其在生物医学工程中的应用 ,并作出展望及指出存在问题。     

Correlation-based decomposition of surface electromyograms at low contraction forces

The paper studies a surface electromyogram (SEMG) decomposition technique suitable for identification of complete motor unit (MU) firing patterns and their motor unit action potentials (MUAPs) during low-level isometric voluntary muscle contractions. The algorithm was based on a correlation matrix of measurements, assumed unsynchronised (uncorrelated) MU firings, exhibited a very low computational complexity and resolved the superimposition of MUAPs. A separation index was defined that identified the time instants of an MU's activation and was eventually used for reconstruction of a complete MU innervation pulse train. In contrast with other decomposition techniques, the proposed approach worked well also when the number of active MUs was slightly underestimated, if the MU firing patterns partly overlapped and if the measurements were noisy. The results on synthetic SEMG show 100% accuracy in the detection of innervation pulses down to a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 10 dB, and 93±4.6% (mean± standard deviation) accuracy with 0 dB additive noise. In the case of real SEMG, recorded with an array of 61 electrodes from biceps brachii of five subjects at 10% maximum voluntary contraction, seven active MUs with a mean firing rate of 14.1 Hz were identified on average.     

Improved evaluation of back muscle SEMG characteristics by modelling

Surface EMG (SEMG) as non-invasive method is a valuable tool in functional studies of movement co-ordination. The interpolation of the SEMG power (EMG mapping) gives information about intra- and inter-muscular co-ordination. It has been shown that SEMG maps of low back pain patients and healthy subjects differ. The only major drawback to SEMG is that volume conduction of muscle tissue, fat, and skin decreases the spatial and temporal resolution of signals. To improve the interpretation of SEMG signals, we have applied high pass filtering of cross covariance functions, which has proved to be useful in increasing the spatial resolution, to SEMG data of the back region. Experimental data demonstrate that SEMG signals from the back extensors show only rarely signs of action potential propagation. This behaviour, also described in the literature, can be explained by a model assuming short, deep muscle fibres, having bipolar end effects, with overlapping positions parallel to the fibre direction. This condition is fulfilled by the mm. multifidii et rotatores which are part of the m. erector spinae. Although the model is simplistic, the agreement between simulations and experiments is good.