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Binary Particle Swarm Optimization-Based Feature Selection for Predicting the Class of the Knee Angle from EMG Signals in Lower Limb Movements

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The performance of a binary particle swarm optimization-based feature selection (BPSOFS) for predicting the class of the knee angle (KA) from myoelectric signals in lower limb movements was examined. Surface EMG (sEMG) signals were recorded from the vastus lateralis and biceps femoris muscles while performing a task of standing up from and sitting down on the chair. The knee angle was measured using a goniometer and quantized into five levels/classes. The sEMG signals were segmented using overlapped windowing. Twenty features per muscle were extracted and fed to a support vector machine (SVM) classifier. Grid selection was done to set the parameters of the classifier. In our study, the KA was first divided into five levels/classes, and the KA class was predicted from the features of sEMG signals using the SVM classifier. Subsequently, BPSOFS was implemented, and the classification accuracy was measured using a reduced feature set. The performance of three different initialization techniques, namely small, large, and mixed initializations, were compared. A paired t test was applied to compare the performance of the SVM classifier with BPSOFS and with the SVM classifier using all the features. The results indicated that BPSOFS achieves a classification accuracy of 90.92% utilizing only 30% of the total features (P > 0.05).

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Dhindsa, I.S., Gupta, R. & Agarwal, R. Binary Particle Swarm Optimization-Based Feature Selection for Predicting the Class of the Knee Angle from EMG Signals in Lower Limb Movements. Neurophysiology 53, 109–119 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11062-022-09922-y

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Keywords

  • lower limb movements
  • knee joint angle
  • surface electromyography
  • feature selection
  • particle swarm optimization
  • support vector machine