Classification of surface EMG signals using optimal wavelet packet method based on Davies-Bouldin criterion

In this paper we present an optimal wavelet packet (OWP) method based on Davies-Bouldin criterion for the classification of surface electromyographic signals. To reduce the feature dimensionality of the outputs of the OWP decomposition, the principle components analysis was employed. Then we chose a neural network classifier to discriminate four types of prosthesis movements. The proposed method achieved a mean classification accuracy of 93.75%, which outperformed the method using the energy of wavelet packet coefficients (with mean classification accuracy 86.25%) and the fuzzy wavelet packet method (87.5%).

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