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Bursting Rate Variability
DOI:10.3389/fphys.2021.724027.png)
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In this paper, a new electromyographic phenomenon, referred to as Bursting Rate Variability (BRV), is reported. Not only does it manifest itself visually as a train of short periods of accrued surface electromyographic (sEMG) activity in the traces, but it has a deeper underpinning because the sEMG bursts are synchronous with wavelet packets in the D8 subband of the Daubechies 3 (db3) wavelet decomposition of the raw signal referred to as D8 doublets-which are absent during muscle relaxation. Moreover, the db3 wavelet decomposition reconstructs the entire sEMG bursts with two contiguous relatively high detail coefficients at level 8, suggesting a high incidence of two consecutive neuronal discharges. Most importantly, the timing between successive bursts shows some variability, hence the BRV acronym. Contrary to Heart Rate Variability (HRV), where the R-wave is easily identified, here, time-localization of the burst requires a statistical waveform matching between the D8 doublet and the burst in the raw sEMG signal. Furthermore, statistical fitting of the empirical distribution of return times shows a striking difference between control and quadriplegic subjects. Finally, the BRV rate appears to be within 60-88 bursts per minute on average among 9 human subjects, suggesting a possible connection between BRV and HRV.
Keywords:
Heart Rate Variability
electromyogram
bursting activity
Akaike and Bayes information criteria
return time distribution
Daubechies
doublets
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