find slope sign change of emg signal

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Ali Asghar
Ali Asghar on 16 Aug 2019
Answered: Star Strider on 18 Aug 2019
dear
i want to find slope sign change of emg signal.
how i do this?
Thank you

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KSSV
KSSV on 16 Aug 2019
If (t,x) is your time and signal.
dt = diff(t) ;
dx = diff(x) ;
slope = dx./dt ;
slope_sign = sign(slop) ;
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Ali Asghar
Ali Asghar on 18 Aug 2019
dear
my data signal is 30000x4
time is 1x30000
its show error : Matrix dimensions must agree.

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Star Strider
Star Strider on 18 Aug 2019
Use the gradient function to produce results that are the same sizes as your data, not diff.
If ‘EMG’ is your (30000x4) signal matrix, the derivative (‘dEMG’) is:
[~,dEMG] = gradient(EMG);
Note that taking the derivative of a a ‘real world’ signal will significantly amplify the noise. It would be best for you to use a lowpass filter on your EMG signal matrix first, to eliminate high-frequency noise. If you have R2018a or later, use the lowpass function (or bandpass if you also want to eliminate d-c offset and low-frequency baseline drift). Otherwise, efficient filters are not difficult to design and implement in MATLAB.

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