Abstract-This paper addresses the sequential decoding of intramuscular single-channel EMG signals to extract the activity of individual motor neurons. A hidden Markov model is derived from the physiological generation of the EMG signal. The EMG signal is described as a sum of several action potentials (wavelet) trains, embedded in noise. For each train, the time interval between wavelets is modeled by a process that parameters are linked to the muscular activity. The parameters of this process are estimated sequentially by a Bayes filter, along with the firing instants. The method was tested on some simulated signals and an experimental one, from which the rates of detection and classification of action potentials were above 95% with respect to the reference decomposition. The method works sequentially in time, and is the first to address the problem of intramuscular EMG decomposition online. It has potential applications for manmachine interfacing based on motor neuron activities.

Abstract-This paper deals with the online decomposition of intramuscular electromyographic (iEMG) signals. A Markov model is proposed, which takes into account a varying number of firing motor neurons. A Bayes filter detects online the firing motor units by using a dictionary of approximated motor unit action potentials waveforms, and estimates precisely the action potential shapes and the respective firing rates. The method was tested on both simulated and experimental signals.

The paper presents an online estimation of parameters of a multi-input renewal Markov process. The underlying model is derived from the physiological generation of intramuscular electromyographic (iEMG) signals, which are recorded by wire electrodes. The iEMG is the sum of several sparse spikes trains and noise. An hidden Markov model, whose parameters express the muscular activity, is developed. The time duration between spikes is modeled with a discrete Weibull distribution, helping us to reduce the complexity of the estimation done with the help of a Bayes filter.