DECODING OF THE EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLES ACTIVATIONS BY COMPLEXITY-BASED ANALYSIS OF ELECTROMYOGRAM (EMG) SIGNALS

Abstract

The analysis of extraocular muscles’ activation is crucial for understanding eye movement patterns, providing insights into oculomotor control, and contributing to advancements in fields such as vision research, neurology, and biomedical engineering. Ten subjects went through the experiments, including normal watching, blinking, upward and downward movements of eyes, and eye movements to the left and right while their electromyogram (EMG) signals were recorded. We analyzed the complexity of recorded EMG signals using fractal theory, sample entropy, and approximate entropy (ApEn). The results showed that the techniques are able to decode the changes in the complexity of EMG signals between different eye movements. In other words, we can use these methods to study extraocular muscle activations in different conditions.