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BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING AND CONTROL
Volume 18, Issue -, Pages 138-144Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2014.12.005
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Electromyography (EMG); Motor unit action potentials (MUAPs); Random forest; C4.5; CART; Multi-scale principle component analysis (MSPCA); Discrete wavelet transform (DWT)
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Decision tree algorithms are extensively used in machine learning field to classify biomedical signals. Denoising and feature extraction methods are also utilized to get higher classification accuracy. The goal of this study is to find an effective machine learning method for classifying ElectroMyoGram (EMG) signals by applying de-noising, feature extraction and classifier. This study presents a framework for classification of EMG signals using multiscale principal component analysis (MSPCA) for de-noising, discrete wavelet transform (DWT) for feature extraction and decision tree algorithms for classification. The presented framework automatically classifies the EMG signals as myopathic, ALS or normal, using CART, C4.5 and random forest decision tree algorithms. Results are compared by using numerous performance measures such as sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, F-measure and area under ROC curve (AK). Combination of DWT and random forest achieved the best performance using k-fold cross-validation with 96.67% total classification accuracy. These results demonstrate that the proposed approach has the capability for the classification of EMG signals with a good accuracy. In addition, the proposed framework can be used to support clinicians for diagnosis of neuromuscular disorders. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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