Electromyography processing apparatus, electromyography processing method and electromyography processing program
An electromyography processing apparatus includes an electromyography acquiring unit configured to generate electromyography data indicating the time course of an electromyography acquired from an electrode set on a predetermined muscle of an exerciser performing a repetitive exercise, and an evaluation unit configured to calculate and output a reproducibility index indicating the reproducibility of the repetitive exercise from the reproducibility of a transition of the electromyography in the repetitive exercise.
1. An electromyography processing apparatus comprising:
an electromyography acquiring unit comprising one or more hardware processors and configured to generate electromyography data indicating a time course of an electromyography acquired from an electrode set on a predetermined muscle of an exerciser performing repetitive exercises; and
an evaluation unit comprising the one or more hardware processors and configured to calculate and output a reproducibility index indicating a reproducibility of each of the repetitive exercises from a reproducibility of a transition of the electromyography in each of the repetitive exercises, wherein the reproducibility index is a power index, and the evaluation unit is configured to calculate the power index from a variance of integrated values of the electromyography for every predetermined time.
2. The electromyography processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the evaluation unit configured to calculate, as the power index, a coefficient of variation obtained by dividing a standard deviation of the integrated values of the electromyography for every predetermined time by an average of the integrated values.
3. The electromyography processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the reproducibility index is a sequence index,
the electromyography acquiring unit configured to generate pieces of electromyography data indicating time courses of electromyographies corresponding to a plurality of muscles, and
the evaluation unit configured to identify times at which a predetermined condition is satisfied, for each of the plurality of muscles in the pieces of electromyography data corresponding to the plurality of muscles in the corresponding repetitive exercises, identify a sequence of identifiers of the plurality of muscles arranged in order of the times that are identified, and calculate the sequence index from a difference in the sequence of the identifiers of the plurality of muscles for each of the repetitive exercises.
4. The electromyography processing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein
the predetermined condition is a timing of any of a start, a peak, and an end of an onset section in which each of the electromyographies is greater than a predetermined value.
5. The electromyography processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the reproducibility index is a time index,
the electromyography acquiring unit configured to generate pieces of electromyography data indicating time courses of electromyographies corresponding to a plurality of muscles, and
the evaluation unit configured to identify times at which a predetermined condition is satisfied, for each of the plurality of muscles in the pieces of electromyography data corresponding to the plurality of muscles in the corresponding repetitive exercises, and calculate the time index from a difference in the times identified for each of the repetitive exercises and for each of the plurality of muscles.
6. An electromyography processing method comprising:
generating, by a computer, electromyography data indicating a time course of an electromyography acquired from an electrode set on a predetermined muscle of an exerciser performing repetitive exercises; and
calculating and outputting, by the computer, a reproducibility index indicating a reproducibility of each of the repetitive exercises from a reproducibility of a transition of the electromyography in each of the repetitive exercises, wherein the reproducibility index is a power index, and the power index is calculated from a variance of integrated values of the electromyography for every predetermined time.
7. A computer-readable recording medium storing an electromyography processing program executable to cause one or more computers to perform operations, the operations comprising:
generating, by a computer, electromyography data indicating a time course of an electromyography acquired from an electrode set on a predetermined muscle of an exerciser performing repetitive exercises; and
calculating and outputting, by the computer, a reproducibility index indicating a reproducibility of each of the repetitive exercises from a reproducibility of a transition of the electromyography in each of the repetitive exercises, wherein the reproducibility index is a power index, and the power index is calculated from a variance of integrated values of the electromyography for every predetermined time.