Multivariate analysis of electrical impedance spectra for relaxed and contracted skeletal muscle

Physiol Meas. 2008 Jun;29(6):S365-72. doi: 10.1088/0967-3334/29/6/S30. Epub 2008 Jun 11.

Abstract

Four-electrode impedance spectra of relaxed and contracted muscle biceps brachii were analyzed in an adult human subject over the frequency range from 300 Hz to 75 kHz. A feasibility of the principal component analysis of bioimpedance measurement for the evaluation of skeletal muscle contractile state was examined. The principal components score plots show a data grouping of the impedance spectra from the two muscle groups. The classification was performed using a soft independent modeling of class analogy (SIMCA) method. The data set comprised 32 samples (16 samples of contracted muscle and 16 samples of relaxed muscle). The leave-one-out test of the classification yields about 80% of correctly classified samples (11 samples for contracted and 15 samples for relaxed muscle).

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Electric Impedance
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Muscle Contraction / physiology*
  • Muscle Relaxation / physiology*
  • Muscle, Skeletal / physiology*
  • Principal Component Analysis
  • Spectrum Analysis / methods*