Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Electrocardiogram (ECG) artifact contamination frequently occurs in surface electromyography (sEMG) when muscles are recorded near the heart. Existing neural network (NN)-based approaches typically perform waveform-level end-to-end denoising with pointwise losses, but often fail to preserve the spectral structures of sEMG. In addition, these models do not exploit the prior knowledge that ECG mainly distorts the low-frequency band of sEMG. We propose SSEMG-Net, a spectrogram-domain model that explicitly captures sEMG-ECG interactions using a bidirectional Mamba backbone and a dual-head decoder for magnitude masking and wrapped-phase estimation. The magnitude masking module is physiologically aware, restricting denoising to the low-frequency sub-band where ECG activity predominates. Experimental results demonstrate that SSEMG-Net achieves superior signal quality and lower feature-extraction error compared to prior methods, underscoring its potential for clinical applications where preserving sEMG spectral features is essential.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Subfield: Biomedical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7212286278
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