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262 Chapter 20. Signal Process<strong>in</strong>g 86(3):603-623, 2006<br />

On the use of sparse signal decomposition <strong>in</strong><br />

the analysis of multi-channel surface<br />

electromyograms<br />

Fabian J. Theis a,∗ , Gonzalo A. García b<br />

a Institute of Biophysics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany<br />

b Department of Bio<strong>in</strong>formatic Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan<br />

Abstract<br />

The decomposition of surface electromyogram data sets (s-EMG) is studied us<strong>in</strong>g<br />

bl<strong>in</strong>d source separation techniques based on sparseness; namely <strong>in</strong>dependent<br />

component analysis, sparse nonnegative matrix factorization, and sparse component<br />

analysis. When applied to artificial signals we f<strong>in</strong>d noticeable differences of<br />

algorithm performance depend<strong>in</strong>g on the source assumptions. In particular, sparse<br />

nonnegative matrix factorization outperforms the other methods with regards to<br />

<strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>g additive noise. However, <strong>in</strong> the case of real s-EMG signals we show that<br />

despite the fundamental differences <strong>in</strong> the various models, the methods yield rather<br />

similar results and can successfully separate the source signal. This can be expla<strong>in</strong>ed<br />

by the fact that the different sparseness assumptions (super-Gaussianity, positivity<br />

together with m<strong>in</strong>imal 1-norm and fixed number of zeros respectively) are all<br />

only approximately fulfilled thus apparently forc<strong>in</strong>g the algorithms to reach similar<br />

results, but from different <strong>in</strong>itial conditions.<br />

Key words: surface EMG, bl<strong>in</strong>d source separation, sparse component analysis,<br />

<strong>in</strong>dependent component analysis, sparse nonnegative matrix factorization<br />

1 Introduction<br />

A basic question <strong>in</strong> data analysis, signal process<strong>in</strong>g, data m<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g as well as<br />

neuroscience is how to represent a large data set X (observed as an (m ×<br />

∗ Correspond<strong>in</strong>g author.<br />

Email addresses: fabian@theis.name (Fabian J. Theis), garciaga@ieee.org<br />

(Gonzalo A. García).<br />

Prepr<strong>in</strong>t submitted to Elsevier Science 8 April 2005

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