Title
Optimizing pattern recognition-based control for partial-hand prosthesis application.
Abstract
Partial-hand amputees often retain good residual wrist motion, which is essential for functional activities involving use of the hand. Thus, a crucial design criterion for a myoelectric, partial-hand prosthesis control scheme is that it allows the user to retain residual wrist motion. Pattern recognition (PR) of electromyographic (EMG) signals is a well-studied method of controlling myoelectric prostheses. However, wrist motion degrades a PR system's ability to correctly predict hand-grasp patterns. We studied the effects of (1) window length and number of hand-grasps, (2) static and dynamic wrist motion, and (3) EMG muscle source on the ability of a PR-based control scheme to classify functional hand-grasp patterns. Our results show that training PR classifiers with both extrinsic and intrinsic muscle EMG yields a lower error rate than training with either group by itself (p<0.001); and that training in only variable wrist positions, with only dynamic wrist movements, or with both variable wrist positions and movements results in lower error rates than training in only the neutral wrist position (p<0.001). Finally, our results show that both an increase in window length and a decrease in the number of grasps available to the classifier significantly decrease classification error (p<0.001). These results remained consistent whether the classifier selected or maintained a hand-grasp.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944395
EMBC
Keywords
Field
DocType
optimisation,biomechanics,pattern recognition-based control scheme,medical control systems,partial-hand amputees,pattern recognition,electromyographic signals,neurophysiology,myoelectric prostheses,static wrist motion,extrinsic muscle emg yields,prosthetics,medical signal processing,dynamic wrist motion,optimization,partial-hand prosthesis control scheme,myoelectric prosthesis control scheme,electromyography,functional hand-grasp pattern recognition,intrinsic muscle emg yields
Prosthesis,Residual,Computer vision,Wrist,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Word error rate,Electromyography,Artificial intelligence,Hand strength,Partial-hand prosthesis,Classifier (linguistics)
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2014
1557-170X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eric J Earley110.72
Adenike A Adewuyi210.38
Levi J Hargrove343842.47