SEMG Signals Identification Using DT And LR Classifier by Wavelet-Based Features

Abstract

In the recent era of technology, biomedical signals have been attracted lots of attention regarding the development of rehabilitation robotic technology. The surface electromyography (SEMG) signals are the fabulous signals utilized in the field of robotics. In this context, SEMG signals have been acquired by twenty-five right-hand dominated healthy human subjects to discriminate the various hand gestures. The placement of SEMG electrodes has been done according to the predefined acupressure point of required hand movements. After the SEMG signal acquisition, pre-processing and noise rejection have been performed. The de-noising and four levels of SEMG signal decomposition have been accomplished by discrete wavelet transform (DWT). In this article, the third and fourth-level detail coefficients have been utilized for time-scale feature extractions. The performance of ten time-scale features has been evaluated and compared to each other with the three-fold cross-validation technique by using a Decision Tree (DT) and Linear Regression (LR) classifier. The results demonstrated that the DT classifier classification accuracy was found superior to the LR classifier. By using the DT classifier technique 96.3% accuracy has been achieved, with all combined features as a feature vector.