Feature reduction and selection for EMG signal classification

Authors:
Angkoon Phinyomark;Pornchai Phukpattaranont;Chusak Limsakul
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Prince of Songkla University, 15 Kanjanavanich Road, Kho Hong, Hat Yai, 90112 Songkhla, Thailand;Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Prince of Songkla University, 15 Kanjanavanich Road, Kho Hong, Hat Yai, 90112 Songkhla, Thailand;Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Prince of Songkla University, 15 Kanjanavanich Road, Kho Hong, Hat Yai, 90112 Songkhla, Thailand
Venue:
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Feature extraction is a significant method to extract the useful information which is hidden in surface electromyography (EMG) signal and to remove the unwanted part and interferences. To be successful in classification of the EMG signal, selection of a feature vector ought to be carefully considered. However, numerous studies of the EMG signal classification have used a feature set that have contained a number of redundant features. In this study, most complete and up-to-date thirty-seven time domain and frequency domain features have been proposed to be studied their properties. The results, which were verified by scatter plot of features, statistical analysis and classifier, indicated that most time domain features are superfluity and redundancy. They can be grouped according to mathematical property and information into four main types: energy and complexity, frequency, prediction model, and time-dependence. On the other hand, all frequency domain features are calculated based on statistical parameters of EMG power spectral density. Its performance in class separability viewpoint is not suitable for EMG recognition system. Recommendation of features to avoid the usage of redundant features for classifier in EMG signal classification applications is also proposed in this study.