Surface EMG of respiratory muscles: innovative analyses to daily practice

Funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and SURF (the collaborative organization for IT in Dutch education and research), the eScience Center awarded the open eScience Call to work on a ‘software tool for automated surface EMG analysis of respiratory muscles’ together with the Cardiovascular and Respiratory Physiology group at the University of Twente. In concordance with the vision of the eScience Center to make the developed software sustainable, accessible and valuable for the intended users, this Lorentz workshop is aimed at building a research community around the software.

The aim of this Masterclass is to provide a consensus paper on how to acquire, analyze and use surface EMG (sEMG) of the respiratory muscles for research and clinical practice.

An international faculty of speakers will provide keynote lectures on different topics: from software specifications to clinical and technological background, to relevant parameters from the sEMG data. Lectures and hands-on sessions with the software will be alternating with round-table discussions and writing sessions, using the Delphi method to gain consensus on critical topics.