Automatic Multichannel Intramuscular Electromyogram Decomposition: Progressive FastICA Peel-Off and Performance Validation

The progressive FastICA peel-off (PFP) is a recently developed blind source separation approach for high-density surface EMG decomposition. This paper explores a novel application of PFP for automatic decomposition of multi-channel intramuscular electromyogram signals. The automatic PFP (APFP) was used to decompose an open access multichannel intramuscular EMG dataset, simultaneously collected from the brachioradialis muscle using 6 to 8 fine wire or needle electrodes. Given usually a limited number of intramuscular electrodes compared with high-density surface EMG recording, a modification was made to the original APFP framework to dramatically increase the decomposition yield. A total of 131 motor units were automatically decomposed by the APFP framework from 10 multichannel intramuscular EMG signals, among which 128 motor units were also manually identified from the expert interactive EMGLAB decomposition. The average matching rate of discharge instants for all the common motor units was (98.71 ± 1.73)%. The outcomes of this study indicate that the APFP framework can also be used to automatically decompose multichannel intramuscular EMG with high accuracies, even though the number of recording channels is relatively small compared with high-density surface EMG.

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