ECG ARTIFACT REMOVAL FROM SURFACE EMG SIGNALS BY COMBINING EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION AND INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS

Joachim Taelman, Bogdan Mijovic, Sabine Van Huffel, Stéphanie Devuyst, Thierry Dutoit

2011

Abstract

The electrocardiography (ECG) artifact in surface electromyography (sEMG) is a major source of noise influencing the analyses. Moreover, in many cases the sEMG signal is the only available signal, making this removal more complicated. We compare the performance of two recently described single channel blind source separation methods with the commonly used template subtraction method on both simulations and real-life data. These two methods decompose a single channel recording into a multichannel representation before applying independent component analysis to these multichannel data. The decomposition methods are the wavelet decomposition and ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD). The EEMD based single channel technique shows better performance compared to template subtraction and the wavelet based alternative for both high and low signal-to-artifact ratio and for simulated and real-life data, but at the expense of a higher computational load. We conclude that the EEMD based method has its potential in eliminating spike-like artifacts in electrophysiological signals.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Taelman J., Mijovic B., Van Huffel S., Devuyst S. and Dutoit T. (2011). ECG ARTIFACT REMOVAL FROM SURFACE EMG SIGNALS BY COMBINING EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION AND INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-35-5, pages 421-424. DOI: 10.5220/0003136804210424

in Bibtex Style

@conference{biosignals11,
author={Joachim Taelman and Bogdan Mijovic and Sabine Van Huffel and Stéphanie Devuyst and Thierry Dutoit},
title={ECG ARTIFACT REMOVAL FROM SURFACE EMG SIGNALS BY COMBINING EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION AND INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={421-424},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003136804210424},
isbn={978-989-8425-35-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2011)
TI - ECG ARTIFACT REMOVAL FROM SURFACE EMG SIGNALS BY COMBINING EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION AND INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS
SN - 978-989-8425-35-5
AU - Taelman J.
AU - Mijovic B.
AU - Van Huffel S.
AU - Devuyst S.
AU - Dutoit T.
PY - 2011
SP - 421
EP - 424
DO - 10.5220/0003136804210424