An Ensemble Machine Learning Technique for Detection of Abnormalities in Knee Movement Sustainability

Hunish Bansal, Basavraj Chinagundi, Prashant Singh Rana and Neeraj Kumar ()
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Hunish Bansal: Computer Science and Engineering Department, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala 147004, India
Basavraj Chinagundi: Computer Science and Engineering Department, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala 147004, India
Prashant Singh Rana: Computer Science and Engineering Department, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala 147004, India
Neeraj Kumar: Computer Science and Engineering Department, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala 147004, India

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 20, 1-16

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine electromyographically if there are significant differences in the movement associated with the knee muscle, gait, leg extension from a sitting position and flexion of the leg upwards for regular and abnormal sEMG data. Surface electromyography (sEMG) data were obtained from the lower limbs of 22 people during three different exercises: sitting, standing, and walking (11 with and 11 without knee abnormality). Participants with a knee deformity took longer to finish the task than the healthy subjects. The sEMG signal duration of patients with abnormalities was longer than that of healthy patients, resulting in an imbalance in the obtained sEMG signal data. As a result of the data’s bias towards the majority class, developing a classification model for automated analysis of such sEMG signals is arduous. The sEMG collected data were denoised and filtered, followed by the extraction of time-domain characteristics. Machine learning methods were then used for predicting the three distinct movements (sitting, standing, and walking) associated with electrical impulses for normal and abnormal sets. Different anomaly detection techniques were also used for detecting occurrences in the sEMG signals that differed considerably from the majority of data and were hence used for enhancing the performance of our model. The iforest anomaly detection technique presented in this work can achieve 98.5% accuracy on the light gradient boosting machine algorithm, surpassing the previous results which claimed a maximum accuracy of 92.5% and 91%, improving accuracy by 6–7% for classification of knee abnormality using machine learning.

Keywords: sEMG signal processing; machine learning; anomaly detection; feature selection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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