Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology
Volume 20, Issue 3 , Pages 542-549 , June 2010

A wavelet-based adaptive filter for removing ECG interference in EMGdi signals

  • Choujun Zhan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
    • ,
  • Lam Fat Yeung

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Zhi Yang

      Affiliations

    • School of Information Science and Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guang Zhou, China

Received 23 March 2009 ,Revised 27 May 2009 ,Accepted 22 July 2009.

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PII: S1050-6411(09)00099-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jelekin.2009.07.007

Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology
Volume 20, Issue 3 , Pages 542-549 , June 2010

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