frequency-time of EMG

I am trying to use Matlab to find the median frequency with respect to time of an EMG signal.

B = xlsread('C:/Users//Desktop/fatigue_20.xlsx');
Fe=800;
A = B(0.1e4:8.2e5, :);
N=length(A);
 t=0:1/Fe:(N/Fe)-1/Fe; 
   psdest = psd(spectrum.periodogram,A_si,'Fs',800,'NFFT',N); 
   normcumsumpsd = cumsum(psdest.Data)./sum(psdest.Data);
   Ind = find(normcumsumpsd <=0.5,1,'last');
   Median frequency=psdest.Frequencies(Ind)

but now how can i build the relation between the median frequency and the time?

Answer 1

[Wayne King]

If you want to find the median frequency with respect to time, you'll have to use the short-time Fourier transform (or some other time-frequency analysis technique)

Using the periodogram, you lose all time information.

You can use spectrogram() to obtain a matrix of PSD estimates with some degree of time localization that depends on how long the window (segment) is. You can then compute the median of your segments.

[li]

can you do me a favour to give me an exemple?thanks a lot

Answer 2

[Wayne King]

Here you go:

   Fs = 1000;
   t = 0:1/Fs:5;
   x = 2*cos(2*pi*100*t).*(t<1)+3*cos(2*pi*200*t).*(t>1 &  t<2)+1.5*cos(2*pi*150*t).*(t>2 & t<3)+2*sin(2*pi*50*t-pi/4).*(t>4)+randn(size(t));
   window = 100;
  [S,F,T,P] = spectrogram(x,window,window/2,window,Fs);
   for nn = 1:size(P,2)
   normcumsumpsd = cumsum(P(:,nn))./sum(P(:,nn));
   Ind = find(normcumsumpsd <=0.5,1,'last');
   medianfreqs(nn) = F(Ind);
   end
   plot(T,medianfreqs);
   xlabel('Time (seconds)'); 
   ylabel('Median Frequency (Hz)');

You see that the median frequency is time dependent

[li]

yes,thank you,if i remplace the x with a EMG signal, what should i change?beacause i have met a question : Improper assignment with rectangular empty matrix.

Error in Untitled4 (line 9) medianfreqs(nn) = F(Ind);

[Wayne King]

what is the dimension of your signal, do

>>whos x

[li]

>> whos x Name Size Bytes Class Attributes

x         841700x1             6733600  double

Answer 3

[Wayne King]

If I just substitute a vector of random noise the same size as your input

Fs = 800;
x = randn(841700,1);
window = 100;
[S,F,T,P] = spectrogram(x,window,window/2,window,Fs);
for nn = 1:size(P,2)
normcumsumpsd = cumsum(P(:,nn))./sum(P(:,nn));
Ind = find(normcumsumpsd <=0.5,1,'last');
medianfreqs(nn) = F(Ind);
end
plot(T,medianfreqs);
xlabel('Time (seconds)'); 
ylabel('Median Frequency (Hz)');

The above works fine for me. Of course, you need to make sure the window length makes sense for your data.

[li]

you are right,but i haven't succeeded yet,it still gives the following error message

>> Untitled666 Improper assignment with rectangular empty matrix.

Error in Untitled666 (line 8) medianfreqs(nn) = F(Ind);

our matrix looks like : 0.2250 0.3220 0.2250 0.0150 -0.0490 0.0730 0.0830 0.0340 0.0200 -0.0340 0.0630 0.0490 0.0340 -0.0630 -0.0590 0.0490 0.2050 0.2690 0.3120 0.0830 -0.0590 -0.0440 it's a bit of a mistery.

Answer 4

[CHOW KHUEN CHAN]

Hi there, do you know how to edit and compute the median of the segments. Any idea?