Browsing by Author "Alguner, Ayber Eray"

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Evaluation of features used in electromyography classification
(Ieee, 2021) Alguner, Ayber Eray; Ergezer, Halit; 293396; Mekatronik Mühendisliği
Classification of electromyography (EMG) signals using machine learning has been studied for a long time. Today, this classification is tried to be made more accurate, fast and applicable by using the methods developed. However, beside this effort, it is suspected that researchers are using features without taking into account the effects on the classification performance, but often by influence of other researches. From this point of view, the effects of some features used in studies published in recent years on classification performance were tested and the results obtained were shared. In the experiments performed using a common method support vector machine (SVM), it was found that increasing the number of features does not always provide an increase in performance, even in some cases, it causes a decrease in accuracy rates.
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Window length insensitive real-time EMG hand gesture classification using entropy calculated from globally parsed histograms
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2023) Alguner, Ayber Eray; Ergezer, Halit; 293396; Mekatronik Mühendisliği
Electromyography (EMG) signal classification is vital to diagnose musculoskeletal abnormalities and control devices by motion intention detection. Machine learning assists both areas by classifying conditions or motion intentions. This paper proposes a novel window length insensitive EMG classification method utilizing the Entropy feature. The main goal of this study is to show that entropy can be used as the only feature for fast real-time classification of EMG signals of hand gestures. The main goal of this study is to show that entropy can be used as the only feature for fast real-time classification of EMG signals of hand gestures. Additionally, the entropy feature can classify feature vectors of different sliding window lengths without including them in the training data. Many kinds of entropy feature succeeded in electroencephalography (EEG) and electrocardiography (ECG) classification research. However, to the best of our knowledge, the Entropy Feature proposed by Shannon stays untested for EMG classification to this day. All the machine learning models are tested on datasets NinaPro DB5 and the newly collected SingleMyo. As an initial analysis to test the entropy feature, classic Machine Learning (ML) models are trained on the NinaPro DB5 dataset. This stage showed that except for the K Nearest Neighbor (kNN) with high inference time, Support Vector Machines (SVM) gave the best validation accuracy. Later, SVM models trained with feature vectors created by 1 s (200 samples) sliding windows are tested on feature vectors created by 250 ms (50 samples) to 1500 ms (300 samples) sliding windows. This experiment resulted in slight accuracy differences through changing window length, indicating that the Entropy feature is insensitive to this parameter. Lastly, Locally Parsed Histogram (LPH), typical in standard entropy functions, makes learning hard for ML methods. Globally Parsed Histogram (GPH) was proposed, and classification accuracy increased from 60.35% to 89.06% while window length insensitivity is preserved. This study shows that Shannon's entropy is a compelling feature with low window length sensitivity for EMG hand gesture classification. The effect of the GPH approach against an easy-to-make mistake LPH is shown. A real-time classification algorithm for the entropy features is tested on the newly created SingleMyo dataset.