sEMG-Based Gesture Recognition Using Deep Learning From Noisy Labels

IEEE J Biomed Health Inform. 2022 Sep;26(9):4462-4473. doi: 10.1109/JBHI.2022.3179630. Epub 2022 Sep 9.

Abstract

Gesture recognition for myoelectric prosthesis control utilizing sparse multichannel surface Electromyography (sEMG) is a challenging task, and from a Muscle-Computer Interface (MCI) standpoint, the performance is still far from optimal. However, the design of a well-performed sEMG recognition system depends on the flexibility of the input-output function and the dataset's quality. To improve the performance of MCI, we proposed a novel gesture recognition framework that (i) Enrich the spectral information of the sparse sEMG signals by constructing a fused map image (denoted as sEMG-Map) that integrates a multiresolution decomposition (by means of orthogonal wavelets) through the raw signals then rely upon the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) capacity to exploit the composite hierarchies in the constructed sEMG-Map input. (ii) Deals with the label noise by proposing a data-centric method (denoted as ALR-CNN) that synchronously refines the falsely labeled samples and optimizes the CNN model based on two basic assumptions. First, the deep model accuracy improves as the training progress. Second, a set of successive learnable max-activated outputs of a well-performed deep model is a reliable estimator for motion detection in the muscle activation pattern. Our proposed framework is evaluated on three large-scale public databases. The average classification accuracy is 95.50%, 95.85%, and 85.58% for NinaPro DB2, NinaPro DB7, and NinaPro DB3, respectively. The experimental results verify the effectuality of the proposed method and show high accuracy.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Deep Learning*
  • Electromyography / methods
  • Gestures*
  • Hand
  • Humans
  • Neural Networks, Computer