EMG Processing Tools

General Processing Steps

Processing EMG signals typically follows some variation of the following steps:

1. High Pass Filter

2. Low Pass Filter

3. Rectify Data

4. Filter Noise

5. Normalize and Scale Data

It should be noted that within both this page and external literature, the term "Linear Envelope" refers to an EMG signal that has been rectified and low pass filtered.

Visual3D has a number of helpful pipeline functions (linked below) that can automate the general processing steps.

Helpful Pipeline Functions

The following links will redirect you to pages detailing the use of Visual3D pipeline commands that are commonly used in the general processing of EMG data:

• High Pass Filter (Removing DC Bias)
• Lowpass Filter
• Rectify
• Moving RMS
• Teager Kaiser Energy Operator
• Assign Tags To File

Meta Commands

This page deals with several examples of using Visual3D Meta-Commands. Meta commands are essentially a way for you to write and upload your own function to the Visual3D pipeline. They have the file extension ".v3m". Meta commands must be stored in a folder labelled Meta-Commands, which should be located in the Visual3D Plugins folder. The Plugins folder may not exist, so you may have to create it yourself. If you receive errors after running a meta-command, navigate to Edit > Preferences in Visual3D and check that the directory of the Plugins folder matches the location Visual3D is looking for it in. Restart Visual3D before running the command again.

Removing Noise from EMG Signals

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Normalization and Scaling Methods

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