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- Title
Effect of clinical parameters on the control of myoelectric robotic prosthetic hands.
- Authors
Atzori, Manfredo; Gijsberts, Arjan; Castellini, Claudio; Caputo, Barbara; Mittaz Hager, Anne-Gabrielle; Elsig, Simone; Giatsidis, Giorgio; Bassetto, Franco; Müller, Henning
- Abstract
Improving the functionality of prosthetic hands with noninvasive techniques is still a challenge. Surface electromyography (sEMG) currently gives limited control capabilities; however, the application of machine learning to the analysis of sEMG signals is promising and has recently been applied in practice, but many questions still remain. In this study, we recorded the sEMG activity of the forearm of 11 male subjects with transradial amputation who were mentally performing 40 hand and wrist movements. The classification performance and the number of independent movements (defined as the subset of movements that could be distinguished with >90% accuracy) were studied in relationship to clinical parameters related to the amputation. The analysis showed that classification accuracy and the number of independent movements increased significantly with phantom limb sensation intensity, remaining forearm percentage, and time since amputation. The classification results suggest the possibility of naturally controlling up to 11 movements of a robotic prosthetic hand with almost no training. Knowledge of the relationship between classification accuracy and clinical parameters adds new information regarding the nature of phantom limb pain as well as other clinical parameters, and it can lay the foundations for future "functional amputation" procedures in surgery.
- Subjects
PAIN; RADIAL bone; ALGORITHMS; AMPUTATION; RESIDUAL limbs; AMPUTEES; ANALYSIS of variance; DATABASES; DISCRIMINANT analysis; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOREARM; HAND; MEDICAL information storage &; retrieval systems; KINEMATICS; MULTIVARIATE analysis; MYOELECTRIC prosthesis; PHANTOM limbs; PROBABILITY theory; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION analysis; REHABILITATION research; RESEARCH funding; ROBOTICS; SCALE analysis (Psychology); PAIN measurement; BODY movement; ONE-way analysis of variance; REHABILITATION; SURGERY
- Publication
Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development, 2016, Vol 53, Issue 3, p345
- ISSN
0748-7711
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1682/JRRD.2014.09.0218