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Hauptverfasser: Molinari, Ricardo Gonçalves, Elias, Leonardo Abdala
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13870
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author Molinari, Ricardo Gonçalves
Elias, Leonardo Abdala
author_facet Molinari, Ricardo Gonçalves
Elias, Leonardo Abdala
contents Restoring hand function requires simultaneous and proportional control (SPC) of multiple degrees of freedom (DoFs). This study evaluated the multichannel linear descriptors-based block field method (MLD-BFM) against conventional feature extraction approaches for continuous decoding of five finger-joint DoFs using high-density surface electromyography (HD sEMG). Twenty-one healthy participants performed dynamic sinusoidal finger movements while HD sEMG signals were recorded from the proximal forearm. MLD-BFM extracted spatial descriptors including effective field strength ($Σ$), field-strength variation rate ($Φ$), and spatial complexity ($Ω$). Performance was optimized (block size: $2\times2$; window: 0.15,s) and compared with conventional time-domain features, root mean square (RMS) and mean absolute value plus waveform length (MAV-WL), as well as dimensionality reduction methods (PCA and NMF), using multi-output regression models. MLD-BFM achieved the highest mean variance-weighted coefficient of determination ($\mathrm{R}^2_\mathrm{vw}$) across all models, with the multilayer perceptron yielding the best result ($86.68 \pm 0.33 \%$). However, the improvement was not statistically significant relative to time-domain features, suggesting that dense multichannel recordings already encode spatial information through amplitude-based descriptors. MLD-BFM significantly outperformed dimensionality reduction approaches, indicating that preserving the spatial resolution of HD sEMG is critical for accurate multi-DoF finger movement regression.
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spellingShingle Do Spatial Descriptors Improve Multi-DoF Finger Movement Decoding from HD sEMG?
Molinari, Ricardo Gonçalves
Elias, Leonardo Abdala
Signal Processing
Machine Learning
Systems and Control
Restoring hand function requires simultaneous and proportional control (SPC) of multiple degrees of freedom (DoFs). This study evaluated the multichannel linear descriptors-based block field method (MLD-BFM) against conventional feature extraction approaches for continuous decoding of five finger-joint DoFs using high-density surface electromyography (HD sEMG). Twenty-one healthy participants performed dynamic sinusoidal finger movements while HD sEMG signals were recorded from the proximal forearm. MLD-BFM extracted spatial descriptors including effective field strength ($Σ$), field-strength variation rate ($Φ$), and spatial complexity ($Ω$). Performance was optimized (block size: $2\times2$; window: 0.15,s) and compared with conventional time-domain features, root mean square (RMS) and mean absolute value plus waveform length (MAV-WL), as well as dimensionality reduction methods (PCA and NMF), using multi-output regression models. MLD-BFM achieved the highest mean variance-weighted coefficient of determination ($\mathrm{R}^2_\mathrm{vw}$) across all models, with the multilayer perceptron yielding the best result ($86.68 \pm 0.33 \%$). However, the improvement was not statistically significant relative to time-domain features, suggesting that dense multichannel recordings already encode spatial information through amplitude-based descriptors. MLD-BFM significantly outperformed dimensionality reduction approaches, indicating that preserving the spatial resolution of HD sEMG is critical for accurate multi-DoF finger movement regression.
title Do Spatial Descriptors Improve Multi-DoF Finger Movement Decoding from HD sEMG?
topic Signal Processing
Machine Learning
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13870