Kevin Englehart, Ph.D., P.Eng.
 

 

 

Associate Director, Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering           

    University of    
    New Brunswick   

   

 Teaching

 Research

 Publications

   

 Publications


 

 

 


 Journal Publications

 

Jiang, N., Parker, P.A. and K. Englehart, “A simulation method for the motor unit innervation processes based on the Hodgkin-Huxely model ,” Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, accepted June 2006.
 

  MacIsaac, D. and K. Englehart, “The Science in Science Fiction’s Artificial Men,” Crosstalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, accepted June 2006.
 
  Jiang, N., Parker, P.A. and K. Englehart, “Modeling of Motor Unit Innervation Process Correlation and Motor Unit Common Drive in Human Skeletal Muscles,” IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, to be published August 2006.
 
 

MacIsaac, D., Parker, P.A., and K. Englehart, "Fatigue estimation with a multivariable myoelectric mapping function," IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, accepted August 2005.
 

 

Chan, A.D.C, Englehart, K., Hudgins, B.H., and D.F. Lovely, “Plausibility Method of Combining the Opinion of Experts,” IEEE Trans. Biomedical Eng, accepted August 2005.
 

 

Huang, Y., Englehart, K., Hudgins, B. and A.D.C. Chan, “A Gaussian Mixture Model Based Classification Scheme for Myoelectric Control of Powered Upper Limb Prostheses,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, to be published 11/05.
 

 

Chan, A.D.C, and K. Englehart, “Continuous Myoelectric Control for Powered Prostheses using Hidden Markov Models,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 52 No. 1, Jan. 2005, pp. 121-124.
 

  Boudreau, B.H., Englehart, K., Chan, A.D.C., and P.A. Parker, “Reduction of Stimulus Artifact in Somatosensory Evoked Potentials: Segmented versus Subthreshold Training,” IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, July , 2003.
 
  Norris, J.A., Englehart, K., and D.F. Lovely, “Myoelectric Signal Compression Using Zero-Trees of Wavelet Coefficients,” Medical Engineering and Physics, Volume 25, Issue 9, pp. 739-746, November 2003.
 
  Englehart, K., Hudgins, B., and A.D.C. Chan, “Continuous Multifunction Myoelectric Control using Pattern Recognition,” Technology and Disability, Volume 15, Number 2, pp. 95-103, 2003.
 
  Englehart, K., and B. Hudgins, “A robust, real time control scheme for multifunction myoelectric control,” IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, vol. 50, No. 7, pp. 848- 854, July 2003.
 
  Chan, A.D.C, Englehart, K.B., Hudgins, B.and D.F. Lovely, "Hidden Markov Model Classification of Myoelectric Signals in Speech," IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, pp. 143-146, Sept/Oct 2002.
 
  Light, C.M., Chappell, P.H., Hudgins B. and K. Englehart, “Intelligent Multifunction Myoelectric Control of Hand Prostheses,” Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 139-146, July 2002.
 
  MacIsaac, D., Parker, P.A., Englehart, K., Scott, R.N. and C. Duffley, “Influences of Dynamic Factors on Myoelectric Parameters,” IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 82-89, Nov/Dec. 2001.
 
Adobe PDF Chan, A., Englehart, K., Hudgins, B., and D.F. Lovely, "Myoelectric Signals to Augment Speech Recognition," Medical and Biological Engineering & Computing, 39(4), pp. 500-506.
 
Adobe PDF Englehart, K., Hudgins, B., and Parker, P.A, “A Wavelet Based Continuous Classification Scheme for Multifunction Myoelectric Control,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 48, No. 3, March 2001, pp. 302-311 .
 
Adobe PDF Greive, R., Parker, P., Hudgins, B. and K. Englehart, "Nonlinear adaptive filtering of stimulus artifact," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 389-395, March 2000.
 
Adobe PDF Englehart, K., Hudgins, B., Parker, P.A., and M. Stevenson, "Classification of the Myoelectric Signal using Time-Frequency Based Representations," Medical Engineering and Physics, Special Issue:  Intelligent Data Analysis in Electromyography and Electroneurography, Vol. 21, pp. 431-438, 1999.
 
  Englehart, K., and P.A. Parker, "Single motor unit myoelectric signal analysis with nonstationary data," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. BME-41, No. 2, February, 1994, pp. 168-180.
 
Adobe PDF Danisch, L., Englehart, K., and A. Trivett, “Spatially continuous six degree of freedom position and orientation sensor,” Sensor Review, 19, 2, pp. 106-112, 1999.

 

 

 

 Book Chapters

 

Englehart, K., Hudgins, B., and G. Bush, “Myoelectric Control of Powered Upper Limb Prostheses,” Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering, Editor: Roberto Merletti, in press.
 

  Englehart, K., Hudgins, B. and P.A. Parker, “Multifunction Control of Upper-Limb Prostheses,” in Intelligent Systems and Technologies for the Disabled, CRC Press, H.N. Teodorescu, Editor, December, 2000.
 
  Parker, P.A., Englehart, K., and B. Hudgins, “The Control of Upper Limb Prostheses, in Electromyography: Physiology, Engineering, and Noninvasive Applications, IEEE Press, R. Merletti and P.A. Parker, Editors, in press.
 
  Englehart, K., Parker, P.A., and B. Hudgins, “Wavelet analysis in neuromuscular signal processing,” in Modern Methods of Neurological Signal Processing, CRC Press, P. LoPresti, Editor, December 2002.


 

 Refereed Conference Papers

 

Hargrove, L., Englehart, K. and B. Hudgins, “The Effect of Electrode Displacements on Pattern Recognition Based Myoelectric Control,” the 28th Annual Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference, New York, September 2006.

Buerkle, V.R.., Englehart, K. and B. Hudgins, “Pattern Recognition of Single and Combined Motions from the Shoulder Complex,” the 28th Annual Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference, New York, September 2006.

 Lock, B., Englehart, K., and B. Hudgins, “VR Tools for Development and Training of Advanced Prosthetics,” 11th Annual CyberTherapy 2006 Conference, Ottawa, Canada, June 2006.

Jiang, N., Parker, P.A., Englehart, K., and J. Gonzalez-Cueto, “A simulation study on the parameter sensitivity of the deconvolution CVD estimator for motor units,” The 29th Conference of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society, Vancouver, June 2006.

Zhou, P., Englehart, K., Lowery, M.M., and T.A. Kuiken, “Classification of high density surface EMG signals developed by targeted muscle reinnervation,” 20th Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology, Torino, Italy, June, 2006.

Hargrove, L.J., Englehart, K. and B. Hudgins, “A comparison of surface and intramuscular myoelectric signal classification,” 20th Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology, Torino, Italy, June, 20

Lowery, M.M., Zhou, P., Englehart, K., and T.A. Kuiken, “Multi-channel surface EMG following nerve-muscle reinnervation of the pectoralis muscles in a sholder disarticulation amputee,” 20th Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology, Torino, Italy, June, 2006.

Lock, B., Englehart, K. and B. Hudgins, “Investigating Advanced Myoelectric Control for Multifunction Upper-Extermity Prostheses Using Virtual Reality,”  20th Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology, Torino, Italy, June, 2006.

Jiang, N., Parker, P.A., and K. Englehart, “The motor unit innervation process correlation and its effects on EMG applications,” 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Shanghai, China, September, 2005.

Jiang, N., Parker, P.A., and K. Englehart, “A novel simulation model for the motor unit innervation process,” 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Shanghai, China, September, 2005.

Hargrove, L. Hudgins, B., Englehart, K. and R. Leckey, “A comparison of surface and internally measured myoelectric signals for use in myoelectric control, Myoelectric Controls Conference 2005, Fredericton, N.B., August 2005.

Lock, B., Englehart, K., and B. Hudgins, “Real-time myoelectric control in a virtual environment to relate usability vs. accuracy, Myoelectric Controls Conference 2005, Fredericton, N.B., August 2005.
 

  Huang, Y., Englehart, K., B. Hudgins and A.D.C. Chan, “Optimized Gaussian Mixture Models for Upper Limb Motion Classification,” 26th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Francisco, CA, September, 2004.
 
 

Huang, Y., Englehart, K., B. Hudgins and A.D.C. Chan, “Robust Upper Limb Motion Classification using Gaussian Mixture Models,” The 29th Conference of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society,  Quebec City, September, 2004.
 

  Huang, Y., Englehart, K., B. Hudgins and A.D.C. Chan, “A GMM-based Classification Scheme for Myoelectric Control of Powered Upper Limb Prostheses,” 19th Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology, Boston, Massachusetts, June 2004.
 
  MacIsaac, D., Parker, P.A., and K. Englehart, “Using a Mapping Index to Assess Fatigue”  19th Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology, Boston, Massachusetts, June 2000.
 
 

Jiang, N., Parker, P.A., and K. Englehart, “Correlation and Common Drive in Motor Units,”  19th Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology, Boston, Massachusetts, June 2004.
 

  Davidge, K., Englehart, K. and P.A. Parker, “Multifunction myoelectric control of prostheses using a linear electrode array,” 19th Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology, Boston, Massachusetts, June 2004.
 
 

Chan, A.D.C., Englehart, K., and B. Hudgins, “Automatic Speech Recognition Using Myoelectric Signals,” 19th Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology, Boston, Massachusetts, June 2004.
 

 

Mandrile F., Assumma, F., Farina, F., Englehart, K., Parker, P.A., and  R. Merletti, “A Novel Adaptive Filtering Approach for Removing Stimulation Artifact in M-waves,” 19th Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology, Boston, Massachusetts, June 2004.
 

  Chan, A.D.C. and K. Englehart, “Continuous Classification of Myoelectric Signals for Powered Prosthesis using Gaussian Mixture Models,” 25th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Cancun, Mexico, September, 2003.
 
  B. H. Boudreau, K. Englehart, A.D.C. Chan and P.A. Parker, “Subthreshold Training: A Novel Approach to Stimulus Artifact Cancellation in Somatosensory Evoked Potential Recordings,” 25th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Cancun, Mexico, September, 2003.
 
 

MacIsaac, D., Parker, P.A. and K. Englehart, “A novel approach to localized muscle fatigue assessment,” 25th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Cancun, Mexico, September, 2003.
 

  Chan, A.D.C., Englehart, K.,  Hudgins, B., and D. F. Lovely, “A multi-expert speech recognition system using acoustic and myoelectric signals,” The 27th Conference of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society, Ottawa, November, 2002.
 
 

Chan, A.D.C., Englehart, K.,  Hudgins, B., and D. F. Lovely, “A multi-expert speech recognition system using acoustic and myoelectric signals,” 24th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Houston, October, 2002.
 

  Boudreau B. and K. Englehart, “A novel adaptive filter training scheme for reducing stimulus artifact in non-invasive somatosensory evoked potential measurement,” Conference of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society, Ottawa, November, 2002.
 
 

MacIsaac, D., Parker P., and K. Englehart, Feasibility of conduction velocity as a fatigue index in dynamic contractions,” 18th Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology, Vienna, Austria, June 2002.
 

 

Boudreau B. and K. Englehart, “A novel adaptive filter training scheme for reducing stimulus artifact in non-invasive somatosensory evoked potential measurement,” 18th Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology, Vienna, Austria, June 2002.
 

Adobe PDF Chan, A., Englehart, K., Hudgins, B., and D.F. Lovely, “Hidden Markov model based classification of myoelectric signals in speech,” 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Istanbul, October 2001.
 
Adobe PDF Norris, J., Englehart, K., and D.F. Lovely, “Myoelectric signal compression using the EZW algorithm,” 23rd Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Istanbul, October 2001.
 
Adobe PDF MacIsaac, D., Englehart, K., Parker, P.A., and R.N. Scott, “The effects of force and joint angle on muscle conduction velocity,” 23rd Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Istanbul, October 2001.
 
Adobe PDF Englehart, K., Hudgins, B., and Parker, P.A., “Time-Frequency Based Classification of the Myoelectric Signal: Static vs. Dynamic Contractions,” 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Chicago, July, 2000.
 
Adobe PDF Englehart, K., Hudgins, B., Parker, P.A. and M. Stevenson, “Improving Myoelectric Signal Classification Using Wavelet Packets and Principal Components Analysis,” 21st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Atlanta, October, 1999.
 
  Danish, L.A., Trivett, A. and K. Englehart, "Spatially continuous six degree of freedom position and orientation sensor," Fiber Optics and Laser Sensors and Applications, SPIE Photonics East Conference, Boston, MA, November, 1998.
 
Adobe PDF Englehart, K., Hudgins, B., P.A. Parker, and M. Stevenson, "Time-frequency representation for classification of the transient myoelectric signal," 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Hong Kong, October, 1998.
 
  Englehart, K., Hudgins, B., P.A. Parker, and M. Stevenson, "Time-frequency methods for classification of the transient myoelectric signal," 16th Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology, Montreal, Quebec, June, 1998.
 
  Englehart, K., Hudgins, B., and P.A. Parker, "A wavelet packet based feature set for classification of the myoelectric signal," 23rd Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society Conference, Toronto, May, 1997.
 
Adobe PDF Hudgins, B., K. Englehart, P.A. Parker, and R.N. Scott, "A microprocessor-based multifunction myoelectric control system," 23rd Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society Conference, Toronto, May, 1997.
 
Adobe PDF Englehart, K., Hudgins, B., Stevenson, M. and P.A. Parker, "A dynamic feedforward neural network for subset classification of myoelectric signal patterns," 19th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society / CMBEC 21, Montreal, P.Q., September, 1995.
 
  Englehart, K., Hudgins, B., Stevenson, M. and P.A. Parker, "Classification of transient myoelectric signals using a dynamic feedforward neural network," World Congress of Neural Networks, Washington, DC, July, 1995.
 
Adobe PDF Englehart, K., Hudgins, B., Stevenson, M. and P.A. Parker, "Classification of myoelectric signal burst patterns using a dynamic neural network," IEEE EMBS Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Bar Harbor, Maine, May, 1995.
 
Adobe PDF Englehart, K., Hudgins, B., Stevenson, M. and P.A. Parker, "Myoelectric signal classification using a finite impulse response neural network," 16th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Baltimore, Maryland, November, 1994.
 
  Englehart, K., Hudgins, B., Stevenson, M. and P.A. Parker, "Myoelectric signal classification using a FIR neural network," UNB Myoelectric Controls/Powered Prosthetics Symposium, Fredericton, New Brunswick, August, 1994, pp. 146-156.
 
  Englehart, K., Hudgins, B., Stevenson, M. and P.A. Parker, "A FIR neural network for myoelectric signal classification," Tenth Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology, June, 1994, pp. 82-83.
 
  Englehart, K., and P.A. Parker, "Myoelectric signal feature estimation with nonstationary motor unit firing rates," 19th Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society Conference, Ottawa, May 1993, pp. 318-319.
 
  Englehart, K., and P.A. Parker, "Innervation density estimate with nonstationary data," 9th Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology, Florence, Italy, June 1992, p. 189.
 
  Englehart, K., and P.A. Parker, "Manifestations of nonstationary neural discharge statistics in myoelectric signal analysis," 17th Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society Conference, Banff, May 1991, pp. 105-106.


 

 Non-Refereed Contributions

 

Englehart, K. and K. Briggs, “UNB Speaker Verification System”, National Institute of Standards (USA) Speaker Recognition Evaluation Workshop, April 2005.
 

 

Englehart, K., Doraiswami, R. and M. Stevenson, “Speaker Identification System: Conceptual Design,” Diaphonics Ltd, Halifax, Canada, June 2003.
 

  Doraiswami, R., Stevenson, M. and K. Englehart, “Estimation of stress in critical components: A preliminary study,” Westland Helicopters Ltd, Yeovil, UK, July 23, 2001.
 
  Englehart, K., and M.E. Kaye, “Software Engineering - A Joint Program of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at UNB, Canadian Conference on Computer Engineering Education, June 2001.
 
  Englehart, K., Internal Technical Report, MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, Ltd, (Classified: NATO Secret), August 2000.
 
Adobe PDF Englehart, K., Signal Representation for Classification of the Transient Myoelectric Signal, Ph.D. Thesis, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, 1998.
 
  Englehart, K., Scott, R.N., Parker, P.A. and B. Hudgins, "Coordinated and simultaneous control of a multifunction myoelectric prosthesis," Progress Report #3, Hugh Steeper Industrial Collaboration, NSERC Project No. CRD151174, August, 1996.
 
  Hudgins, B., Scott, R.N., Parker, P.A., Hrucskowski, T., and K. Englehart, "Coordinated and simultaneous control of a multifunction myoelectric prosthesis," Progress Report #2, Hugh Steeper Industrial Collaboration, NSERC Project No. CRD151174, May, 1995.
 
  Englehart, K., Scott, R.N., Parker, P.A. and B. Hudgins, "Coordinated and simultaneous control of a multifunction myoelectric prosthesis," Progress Report #1, Hugh Steeper Industrial Collaboration, NSERC Project No. CRD151174, August 1994.
 
  Englehart, K., Manifestations of Nonstationary Neural Discharge Statistics in Myoelectric Signal Feature Estimation, M.Sc. Thesis, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, 1991
 
  Englehart, K., "DSP-based Telephony," Bell Northern Research Technical Document, June 1990.
Hardware/software design of a digital telephone capable of caller identification and voice/data compression.
 
  Englehart, K., Artificial Acoustic Environment Generation using Digital Signal Processing, B.Sc. Thesis, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, 1988.
 
  Englehart, K., "A four-horn phased array for cross-polar jamming," Department of National Defense Technical Report, DREO EWD/RCM, Aug., 1988.
Design and implementation of an emitter prototype for jamming aircraft radar.