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Decoding of unimanual and bimanual reach-and-grasp actions from EMG and IMU signals in persons with cervical spinal cord injury.
Wolf, Marvin; Rupp, Rüdiger; Schwarz, Andreas.
Afiliação
  • Wolf M; Spinal Cord Injury Center, Heidelberg University Hospital, Schlierbacher Landstraße 200a, Heidelberg 69118, Baden-Württenberg, Germany.
  • Rupp R; Spinal Cord Injury Center, Heidelberg University Hospital, Schlierbacher Landstraße 200a, Heidelberg 69118, Baden-Württenberg, Germany.
  • Schwarz A; Spinal Cord Injury Center, Heidelberg University Hospital, Schlierbacher Landstraße 200a, Heidelberg 69118, Baden-Württenberg, Germany.
J Neural Eng ; 21(2)2024 04 15.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38471169
ABSTRACT
Objective. Chronic motor impairments of arms and hands as the consequence of a cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) have a tremendous impact on activities of daily life. A considerable number of people however retain minimal voluntary motor control in the paralyzed parts of the upper limbs that are measurable by electromyography (EMG) and inertial measurement units (IMUs). An integration into human-machine interfaces (HMIs) holds promise for reliable grasp intent detection and intuitive assistive device control.Approach. We used a multimodal HMI incorporating EMG and IMU data to decode reach-and-grasp movements of groups of persons with cervical SCI (n = 4) and without (control, n = 13). A post-hoc evaluation of control group data aimed to identify optimal parameters for online, co-adaptive closed-loop HMI sessions with persons with cervical SCI. We compared the performance of real-time, Random Forest-based movement versus rest (2 classes) and grasp type predictors (3 classes) with respect to their co-adaptation and evaluated the underlying feature importance maps.Main results. Our multimodal approach enabled grasp decoding significantly better than EMG or IMU data alone (p<0.05). We found the 0.25 s directly prior to the first touch of an object to hold the most discriminative information. Our HMIs correctly predicted 79.3 ± STD 7.4 (102.7 ± STD 2.3 control group) out of 105 trials with grand average movement vs. rest prediction accuracies above 99.64% (100% sensitivity) and grasp prediction accuracies of 75.39 ± STD 13.77% (97.66 ± STD 5.48% control group). Co-adaption led to higher prediction accuracies with time, and we could identify adaptions in feature importances unique to each participant with cervical SCI.Significance. Our findings foster the development of multimodal and adaptive HMIs to allow persons with cervical SCI the intuitive control of assistive devices to improve personal independence.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Traumatismos da Medula Espinal / Medula Cervical Limite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: J Neural Eng Assunto da revista: NEUROLOGIA Ano de publicação: 2024 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Alemanha País de publicação: Reino Unido

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Traumatismos da Medula Espinal / Medula Cervical Limite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: J Neural Eng Assunto da revista: NEUROLOGIA Ano de publicação: 2024 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Alemanha País de publicação: Reino Unido