Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Diagnosis using Electromyography (EMG)

Archana Kanwade, Vinayak Bairagi
Elsevier S&T
192 pages
ISBN: 9780323900508
January 2022

This book presents a new and innovative method of COPD diagnosis using EMG to analyze sternomastoid muscle activity using features extraction and classification. It describes the methodology of EMG analysis, the slope-based onset detection algorithm and SEMG analysis in time, frequency and time frequency domain analyses. Fully comprehensive, the book includes discussion of limitations of existing methods for COPD diagnosis and introduces new efficient methods for COPD identification, classification and early diagnosis.