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http://dx.doi.org/10.9718/JBER.2019.40.6.242

Improvement of Classification Accuracy of Different Finger Movements Using Surface Electromyography Based on Long Short-Term Memory  

Shin, Jaeyoung (Department of Electrical Engineering, Wonkwang University)
Kim, Seong-Uk (Department of Medical IT Convergence Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
Lee, Yun-Sung (Department of Medical IT Convergence Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
Lee, Hyung-Tak (Department of Medical IT Convergence Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
Hwang, Han-Jeong (Department of Medical IT Convergence Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
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Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research / v.40, no.6, 2019 , pp. 242-249 More about this Journal
Abstract
Forearm electromyography (EMG) generated by wrist movements has been widely used to develop an electrical prosthetic hand, but EMG generated by finger movements has been rarely used even though 20% of amputees lose fingers. The goal of this study is to improve the classification performance of different finger movements using a deep learning algorithm, and thereby contributing to the development of a high-performance finger-based prosthetic hand. Ten participants took part in this study, and they performed seven different finger movements forty times each (thumb, index, middle, ring, little, fist and rest) during which EMG was measured from the back of the right hand using four bipolar electrodes. We extracted mean absolute value (MAV), root mean square (RMS), and mean (MEAN) from the measured EMGs for each trial as features, and a 5x5-fold cross-validation was performed to estimate the classification performance of seven different finger movements. A long short-term memory (LSTM) model was used as a classifier, and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) that is a widely used classifier in previous studies was also used for comparison. The best performance of the LSTM model (sensitivity: 91.46 ± 6.72%; specificity: 91.27 ± 4.18%; accuracy: 91.26 ± 4.09%) significantly outperformed that of LDA (sensitivity: 84.55 ± 9.61%; specificity: 84.02 ± 6.00%; accuracy: 84.00 ± 5.87%). Our result demonstrates the feasibility of a deep learning algorithm (LSTM) to improve the performance of classifying different finger movements using EMG.
Keywords
Electromyography (EMG); Finger movement classification; Deep learning; Recurrent neural network (RNN); Long short-term memory (LSTM);
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