title: Hardware System for Real-Time EMG Signal Acquisition and Separation Processing during Electrical Stimulation.
abstract: The study aimed to develop a real-time electromyography (EMG) signal acquiring and processing device that can acquire signal during electrical stimulation. Since electrical stimulation output can affect EMG signal acquisition, to integrate the two elements into one system, EMG signal transmitting and processing method has to be modified. The whole system was designed in a user-friendly and flexible manner. For EMG signal processing, the system applied Altera Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) as the core to instantly process real-time hybrid EMG signal and output the isolated signal in a highly efficient way. The system used the power spectral density to evaluate the accuracy of signal processing, and the cross correlation showed that the delay of real-time processing was only 250 μs.
authors.affiliation: Department and Institute of Electronic Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, 123 University Road, Section 3, Douliou, Yunlin, 64002, Taiwan, Republic of China, hsuehyh@yuntech.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Ya-Hsin
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Hsueh
authors.forename: Chieh
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.forename: Yan-Hong
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004576:Electromyography / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012985:Software Design; D013997:Time Factors