Mechanomyography signals pattern recognition in hand movements using swarm intelligence algorithm optimized support vector machine based on acceleration sensors.

Journal: Medical engineering & physics
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Abstract

On the basis of extracting mechanomyography (MMG) signal features, the classification of hand movements has certain application values in human-machine interaction systems and wearable devices. In this paper, pattern recognition of hand movements based on MMG signal is studied with swarm intelligence algorithms introduced to optimize support vector machine (SVM). Time domain (TD) features, wavelet packet node energy (WPNE) features, frequency domain (FD) features, convolution neural network (CNN) features were extracted from each channel to constitute different feature sets. Three novel swarm intelligence algorithms (i.e., bald eagle search (BES), sparrow search algorithm (SSA), grey wolf optimization (GWO)) optimized SVM is proposed to train the models and recognition of hand movements are tested for each MMG feature extraction method. Using GWO as the optimization algorithm, time consumption is less than using the other two swarm algorithms. Using GWO with TD+FD features can obtain the classification accuracy of 93.55 %, which is higher than other methods while using CNN to extract features can be independent of domain knowledge. The results confirm GWO-SVM with TD + FD features is superior to some other methods in the classification problem for tiny samples based on MMG.

Authors

  • Yue Zhang
    Department of Ophthalmology, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
  • Gangsheng Cao
    School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237 China.
  • Maoxun Sun
    School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200093, China.
  • Baigan Zhao
    School of Mechanical Engineering, Nantong University, Nantong 226019 China.
  • Qing Wu
    5 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Community Health Sciences, University of Nevada , Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • Chunming Xia
    School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237 China; School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620 China. Electronic address: cmxia@ecust.edu.cn.