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Table 1 A summary of the selected decomposition algorithms and their parameters

From: Comparison of decomposition algorithms for identification of single motor units in ultrafast ultrasound image sequences of low force voluntary skeletal muscle contractions

Algorithm

Parameter (λ or α)

Domain

Description

sPCA

λ = 150

Spatial

Extension of principal component analysis (PCA) by sparse constraint, i.e., uses L1 penalty on the spatial loadings in the optimization procedure. λ denotes the number of non-zero pixels, a parameter equal to 150 and 250 corresponds to territories with 4.3 and 5.6 mm in diameter

λ = 250

Spatial

stICA

α = 0.0

Temporal

Separation by optimizing a joint entropy energy function based on mutual entropy and infomax with a kurtosis-based cost function. α = 0.8 has been used previously [11, 12], i.e., weighs 0.8 in spatial and 0.2 in temporal separation

α = 0.8

Spatiotemporal

α = 1.0

Spatial

stJADE

α = 0.0

Temporal

Joint diagonalization of fourth-order cumulant tensor in separation procedure. A low α weighs more on temporal separation

α = 0.5

Spatiotemporal

α = 1.0

Spatial

stSOBI

α = 0.0

Temporal

Autocovariance matrices (fixed number, 12) for joint diagonalization of a set of symmetrized multidimensional autocovariances [28, 29]. Similar to stJADE, a low α weighs more on temporal separation

α = 0.5

Spatiotemporal

α = 1.0

Spatial

  1. α-parameter weighs spatial- and temporal separation, a λ-parameter relates to the number of non-zero pixels
  2. sPCA sparse principal components, stICA spatiotemporal independent component analysis, stJADE spatiotemporal joint approximation diagonalization of eigenmatrices, and stSOBI spatiotemporal second-order blind identification