About the code
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The source code for the the manuscript titled [AbdelMaseeh, M.; Chen, T.; Stashuk, D., "Extraction and Classification of Multichannel Electromyographic Activation Trajectories for Hand Movement Recognition," Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on , vol.PP, no.99, pp.1,1 doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2015.2447217]. 

The paper proposes a system for hand movement recognition using multi-channel electromyographic (EMG) signals obtained from the forearm surface. This system can be potentially used to control prostheses or to provide input to a wide range of human computer interface systems. The developed methods were tested with the publicly available NINAPro database.

Build the code
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The code includes DTW.c and FindTrajectories.cpp files that need to be compiled into .mex functions. The steps are:

1- Make sure that the compiler is correctly configured. Compilers are configured through "mex -setup" command. The compilers used for development were "Microsoft Visual C++ 2010" and "Microsoft Visual C++ 2012". For Further details, please visit the following link: http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_external/building-mex-files.html

2- Navigate Matlab to where you downloaded the code. 

3- Execute the following script:	
	CompileCppCode.m

Download the data
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The developed methods were tested using the second version of the publicly available databse from the Non-Invasive Adaptive Prosthetics (NINAPro) project. 


1- For complete description of the data and the acquisition protocol, please refer to: 
[M. Atzori, A. Gijsberts, C. Castellini, B. Caputo, A.-G. M. Hager, S. Elsig, G. Giatsidis, F. Bassetto, and H. Muller, “Electromyography data for non-invasive naturally-controlled robotic hand prostheses,” Scientific Data, vol. 1, 2014.] .

2- The data can be downloaded from http://ninapro.hevs.ch .

3- Change the value for DatabaseLocation attribute in Configuration.exp to point to the location of the data.

Run the code
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1- Change the attributes in the configuration.exp file. Each line in the configuration file has the format: 
AttributeName = AttributeValue; 

2- Run the Main.m script. 

Support
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For any problems or further support, please contact us on m2adly@uwaterloo.ca

Fairness of Usage
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Please reference in your paper as:

M. AbdelMaseeh, T. W. Chen and D. W. Stashuk, "Extraction and Classification of Multichannel Electromyographic Activation Trajectories for Hand Movement Recognition," in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 662-673, June 2016.
doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2015.2447217