A Comprehensive Channel and Feature Selection Method for Myoelectric Pattern Recognition

The advent of myoelectric control schemes provides promising chances for locomotion empowerment and restoration of those with disabilities. Despite substantial efforts have been made into advancing sEMG-based motion recognition, it may be a little tricky to determine appropriate muscles and features for people with muscle disorders or different muscle use preferences. To mitigate it, an advantageous sEMG channel and feature selection method based on ReliefF algorithm was proposed. Related experiments were conducted on a eight able-bodied subject database to showcase the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed approach, that is, considerably high classification performance was maintained with the original feature set reduced by more than half. Ulteriorly, we also investigated the influences of different number of neighbors or features on classification accuracy for ascertaining the optimal values. The strengths of our proposed method lie in not only customizing channel and feature selection for individual users, but also offering preliminary insight for a general mapping mechanism between human muscles and corresponding motions.