Improved two-dimensional dynamic S-EMG Signal compression with robust automatic segmentation

Abstract This work presents an automatic and robust algorithm for surface electromyography signals segmentation in dynamic experimental protocol. The signals are segmented based on the peak burst occurrence. The two-dimensional array is constructed and used as input of a 2D signal encoder. The two-dimensional matrix lines may be long enough to have several bursts. The algorithm includes, besides segmentation modules, several others to eliminate the occurrence of false positives. An encoder that combines the AV1 and JPEG2000 toolset is used to compress data. Basically, depending on the target compression rate the encoder uses AV1 or JPEG2000. Examples of segmentation for electromyography signals digitalized from lower and upper limbs are shown. Data compression results for real electromyography signals data bank are presented. A performance comparison with other works reported in the literature is also included.