Blind source separation for isolation of motor unit potentials in electromyography
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This paper considers the application of Blind Source Separation (BSS) to electromyographic (EMG) data as an approach to isolating individual motor unit potentials (MUPs). BSS was applied both to needle EMG (nEMG) and surface EMG (sEMG), and experimental results were obtained that demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach. BSS is proposed as a technique to be incorporated into EMG methodology to enable separation of individual MUPs from an EMG interference pattern.
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