Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 767-772 , August 2010

Automatic detection of surface EMG activation timing using a wavelet transform based method

  • Giuseppe Vannozzi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Human Movement and Sport Sciences, University of Rome “Foro Italico”, Rome, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Department of Human Movement and Sport Sciences, University of Rome “Foro Italico”, Piazza Lauro de Bosis, 6, 00135 Rome, Italy. Tel.: +39 06 36733522; fax: +39 06 36733517.
    • ,
  • Silvia Conforto

      Affiliations

    • Department of Applied Electronics, Roma TRE University, Rome, Italy
    • ,
  • Tommaso D’Alessio

      Affiliations

    • Department of Applied Electronics, Roma TRE University, Rome, Italy

Received 15 July 2009 ,Revised 7 January 2010 ,Accepted 10 February 2010.

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PII: S1050-6411(10)00031-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jelekin.2010.02.007

Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 767-772 , August 2010

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