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Processing EMG David DeLion UNLV Biomechanics Lab Why do we process EMG? Raw EMG offers us valuable information in a practically useless form Raw EMG signals cannot be quantitatively compared between subjects If electrodes are moved raw EMG signals cannot be quantitatively compared for the same subject Types of Signal Processing Raw Half-wave rectified Full-wave rectified Filtering Averaging Smoothing Integration Root-mean Square Frequency spectrum Fatigue analysis Number of Zero-crossings Amplitude Probability Distribution Function Wavelet Removing Bias Low amplitude voltage offset presen