Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 1 , Pages 55-64 , May 2006

A novel method for automated EMG decomposition and MUAP classification

  • C.D. Katsis

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Physics, Medical School, University of Ioannina, GR 451 10 Ioannina, Greece
    • Unit of Medical Technology and Intelligent Information Systems, Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina, P.O. Box 1186, GR 451 10 Ioannina, Greece
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  • Y. Goletsis

      Affiliations

    • Unit of Medical Technology and Intelligent Information Systems, Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina, P.O. Box 1186, GR 451 10 Ioannina, Greece
    • Department of Economics, University of Ioannina, GR 451 10 Ioannina, Greece
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  • A. Likas

      Affiliations

    • Unit of Medical Technology and Intelligent Information Systems, Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina, P.O. Box 1186, GR 451 10 Ioannina, Greece
    • Biomedical Research Institute—FORTH, GR 451 10 Ioannina, Greece
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  • D.I. Fotiadis

      Affiliations

    • Unit of Medical Technology and Intelligent Information Systems, Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina, P.O. Box 1186, GR 451 10 Ioannina, Greece
    • Biomedical Research Institute—FORTH, GR 451 10 Ioannina, Greece
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +30 26510 98803; fax: +30 26510 97092.
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  • I. Sarmas

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Medical School, University of Ioannina, GR 451 10, Ioannina, Greece

Received 9 May 2005 ,Revised 29 August 2005 ,Accepted 13 September 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2005.09.002

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