Feature fusion of electrocardiogram and surface electromyography for estimating the fatigue states during lower limb rehabilitation_Journal of Biomedical Engineering

Authors：

YUAN Yaoyao ¹ ,  CAO Dianguo ¹ , LI Cong ¹ , LIU Chengyu ²

1. College of Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, Shandong 276826, P.R.China;
2. School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, P.R.China;

Corresponding author：

CAO Dianguo, Email: caodg@qfnu.edu.cn

Keywords：

lower limbs fatigue estimation; electrocardiogram; surface electromyography; feature fusion; improved particle swarm optimization-support vector machine

DOI：

10.7507/1001-5515.201907053

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In the process of lower limb rehabilitation training, fatigue estimation is of great significance to improve the accuracy of intention recognition and avoid secondary injury. However, most of the existing methods only consider surface electromyography (sEMG) features but ignore electrocardiogram (ECG) features when performing in fatigue estimation, which leads to the low and unstable recognition efficiency. Aiming at this problem, a method that uses the fusion features of ECG and sEMG signal to estimate the fatigue during lower limb rehabilitation was proposed, and an improved particle swarm optimization-support vector machine classifier (improved PSO-SVM) was proposed and used to identify the fusion feature vector. Finally, the accurate recognition of the three states of relax, transition and fatigue was achieved, and the recognition rates were 98.5%, 93.5%, and 95.5%, respectively. Comparative experiments showed that the average recognition rate of this method was 4.50% higher than that of sEMG features alone, and 13.66% higher than that of the combined features of ECG and sEMG without feature fusion. It is proved that the feature fusion of ECG and sEMG signals in the process of lower limb rehabilitation training can be used for recognizing fatigue more accurately.

Citation： YUAN Yaoyao, CAO Dianguo, LI Cong, LIU Chengyu. Feature fusion of electrocardiogram and surface electromyography for estimating the fatigue states during lower limb rehabilitation. Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 2020, 37(6): 1056-1064. doi: 10.7507/1001-5515.201907053 Copy

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3. Li W F, Hu X Y, Gravina R, et al. A neuro-fuzzy fatigue-tracking and classification system for wheelchair users. IEEE Access, 2017, 5: 19420-19431.
4. Shahmoradi S, Zare A, Behzadipour S. Fatigue status recognition in a post-stroke rehabilitation exercise with sEMG signal//24th National Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering/2nd International Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME). Tehran: IEEE, 2017: 162-166.
5. 谢平, 刘欢, 王磊磊, 等. 基于脑肌电反馈的虚拟康复训练系统设计. 仪器仪表学报, 2018, 39(1): 250-257.
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7. 徐国政, 宋爱国, 高翔, 等. 基于焦虑情绪与混杂控制的机器人辅助临床康复实验. 仪器仪表学报, 2017, 38(10): 2364-2372.
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9. Berkaya S K, Uysal A K, Gunal E S, et al. A survey on ECG analysis. Biomed Signal Process Control, 2018, 43: 216-235.
10. Zhang Z Q, Ji L Y, Huang Z P, et al. Adaptive information fusion for human upper limb movement estimation. IEEE Trans Syst Man Cybern, 2012, 42(5): 1100-1108.
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16. 任斌斌, 谭海燕, 马成群, 等. 基于白噪声分离的集合经验模态分解心电信号去噪方法研究. 生物医学工程学杂志, 2016, 33(2): 221-226.
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25. Karthick P A, Ghosh D M, Ramakrishnan S. Surface electromyography based muscle fatigue detection using high-resolution time-frequency methods and machine learning algorithms. Comput Meth Prog Bio, 2018, 154: 45-56.

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