Scientific and professional contributions, arising directly from the implementation of the project:

Book chapters

  1. HOLOBAR, Aleš, FARINA, Dario, ZAZULA, Damjan. Surface EMG decomposition. V: MERLETTI, Roberto (ur.), FARINA, Dario (ur.). Surface electromyography: physiology, engineering and applications, (IEEE Press series in biomedical engineering). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press; Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2016, pp. 180-209. [COBISS.SI-ID 19684374].
  2. MERLETTI, Roberto, HOLOBAR, Aleš, FARINA, Dario. Mathematical techniques for noninvasive muscle signal analysis and interpretation. V: NARAYAN, Roger (ur.). Encyclopedia of biomedical engineering. Amsterdam: Elsevier 2019, pp. 95-111, [COBISS.SI-ID 21825814].
  3. MERLETTI, Roberto, FARINA, Dario, HOLOBAR, Aleš. Surface electromyography (sEMG). V: WEBSTER, John G. (ur.). Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Chichester: Wiley. 2018, [COBISS.SI-ID 21685782].

Journals

  1. FARINA, Dario, HOLOBAR, Aleš. Characterization of human motor units from surface EMG decomposition. Proceedings of the IEEE,  104 (2): 353-373, 2016 [COBISS.SI-ID 19441174].
  2. V. GLASER, A. HOLOBAR: Motor unit identification from high-density surface electromyograms in repeated dynamic muscle contractions. IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering,[COBISS.SI-ID 21986838].
  3. M. ŠAVC, V. GLASER, J. KRANJEC, I. CIKAJLO, Z. MATJAČIĆ, A. HOLOBAR: Comparison of convolutive kernel compensation and non-negative matrix factorization of surface electromyograms. IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering, [COBISS.SI-ID 21717270]
  4. POTOČNIK, Božidar, HOLOBAR, Aleš. A new optical flow model for motor unit conduction velocity estimation in multichannel surface EMG, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 83:59–68, 2017 [COBISS.SI-ID 20327446].
  5. HOLOBAR, Aleš, GALLEGO, J.A., KRANJEC, Jernej, ROCON, Eduardo, ROMERO, Juan P., BENITO-LEÓN, Julián, PONS, José L., GLASER, Vojko. Motor unit-driven identification of pathological tremor in electroencephalograms. Frontiers in Neurology, ISSN 1664-2295. 2018,9(879):1-15, [COBISS.SI-ID 21832982].
  6. CHEN, Maoqi, HOLOBAR, Aleš, ZHANG, Xu, ZHOU, Ping. Progressive fastICA peel-off and convolution kernel compensation demonstrate high agreement for high density surface EMG decomposition. Neural Plasticity, 2016: 1-5, 2016 [COBISS.SI-ID 19748630].
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  7. DIDERIKSEN, Jakob L, HOLOBAR, Aleš, FALLA, Deborah. Preferential distribution of nociceptive input to motoneurons with muscle units in the cranial portion of the upper trapezius muscle. Journal of neurophysiology, 116 (2): 611-618, 2016 [COBISS.SI-ID 19723542].
  8. POVALEJ-BRZAN P., GALLEGO J.A., ROMERO J.P.,.GLASER V, ROCON E., BENITO-LEON J., BERMEJO-PAREJA F., POSADA I.J., HOLOBAR A.: New Perspectives for Computer-Aided Discrimination of Parkinson’s Disease and Essential Tremor, Complexity 2017, [COBISS.SI-ID 2368420].
  9. BENITO-LEÓN, Julián, SERRANO, J. Ignacio, LOUIS, Elan D., HOLOBAR, Aleš, ROMERO, Juan P., POVALEJ BRŽAN, Petra, KRANJEC, Jernej, BERMEJO-PAREJA, Félix, DEL CASTILLO, M. Dolores, POSADA, Ignacio J., ROCON, Eduardo. Essential tremor severity and anatomical changes in brain areas controlling movement sequencing. Annals of clinical and translational neurology : 2019, 6(1):83-97 [COBISS.SI-ID 21850134].
  10. LAPATKI, Bernd Georg, EIGLSPERGER, Ulrike, SCHINDLER, Hans Jürgen, RADEKE, Johanna, HOLOBAR, Aleš, VAN DIJK, Johannes Petrus. Three-dimensional amplitude characteristics of masseter motor units and representativeness of extracted motor unit samples. Clinical neurophysiology, 2019,130(3):388-395 [COBISS.SI-ID 22089238],
  11. DEL VECCHIO, A., NEGRO, Francesco, HOLOBAR, Aleš, CASOLO, A., FOLLAND, J. P., FELICI, F., FARINA, Dario. You are as fast as your motor neurons: Speed of recruitment and maximal discharge of motor neurons determine the maximal rate of force development in humans. The journal of physiology, 2019 [COBISS.SI-ID 22154006].
  12. WATANABLE, Kohel, HOLOBAR, Aleš, MITA, Yukiko, KOUZAKI, Motoki, OGAWA, Madoka, AKIMA, Hiroshi, MORITANI, Toshio. Effect of resistance training and fish protein intake on motor unit firing pattern and motor function of elderly. Frontiers in physiology, 2018, 9(1733):1-14 [COBISS.SI-ID 21946390].

Conferences

  1. KRANJEC, Jernej, HOLOBAR, Aleš. Advanced signal processing techniques for multi-channel EMG - on the need for motor unit action potential compensation. V: MASIA, Lorenzo (ur.). Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation III, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR2018), October 16-20, 2018, Pisa, Italy, (Biosystems & biorobotics (Internet), 2019, [COBISS.SI-ID 21964310].
  2. HOLOBAR, Aleš, GLASER, Vojko. Cumulative spike train outperforms the root-mean-square metric in muscle excitation estimation from dynamic high-density EMG. V: MASIA, Lorenzo (ur.). Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation III, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR2018), 2018, Pisa, Italy [COBISS.SI-ID 21964054].
  3. DIVJAK, Matjaž, ŠIMUNIČ, Boštjan, KOREN MIKLAVEC, Katja, GERŽEVIČ, Mitja, PIŠOT, Rado, HOLOBAR, Aleš. Surface EMG analysis of age-related changes in motor unit firing rates of triceps surae during isometric plantar flexion. V: 2018 IEEE-EMBS conference on biomedical engineering and sciences (IECBES) 2018, Kuching, Malaysia. [COBISS.SI-ID 22159638].
  4. ŠAVC, Martin, GLASER, Vojko, HOLOBAR, Aleš. On the impact of muscle shortening on non-negative matrix factorization of dynamic surface electromyograms. V: 40h Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2018, [COBISS.SI-ID 21964566].
  5. ŠAVC, Martin, GLASER, Vojko, HOLOBAR, Aleš, CIKAJLO, Imre, MATJAČIĆ, Zlatko. Comparison of non-negative matrix factorization and convolution kernel compensation in surface electromyograms of forearm muscles. V: 2017 10th International Congress on Image and Signal Processing, BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (CISP-BMEI) 2017 [COBISS.SI-ID 21970966].
  6. GLASER, Vojko, HOLOBAR, Aleš. On the impact of spike segmentation on motor unit identification in dynamic surface electromyograms. V: 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society : [digital proceedings], 9th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Jeju Island, Korea 2017 [COBISS.SI-ID 20879126].
  7. GLASER, Vojko, FARINA, Dario, HOLOBAR, Aleš. Simulations of high-density surface electromyograms in dynamic muscle contractions. V: 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society : [digital proceedings], 9th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Jeju Island, Korea, 2017 [COBISS.SI-ID 20891414].
  8. GLASER, Vojko, HOLOBAR, Aleš. Impact of motor unit action potential components on the motor unit identification from dynamic high-density surface electromyograms. V: 8th international IEEE EMBS conference on neural engineering : [proceedings]. [S. l.]: IEEE, 2017, [COBISS.SI-ID 20898070].
  9. GLASER, Vojko, HOLOBAR, Aleš. A novel measure of motor unit action potential variability in nonstationary surface electromyograms. V: IBÁŇEZ, Jaime (ur.). Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR2016), Segovia, Spain [COBISS.SI-ID 19958038].
  10. KARLATEC, Damjan, HOLOBAR, Aleš. On correlation between the neural drive to muscles and multichannel surface electromyogram amplitudes. V: IBÁŇEZ, Jaime (ur.). Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR2016), October 18-21, 2016 [COBISS.SI-ID 19958550]
  11. DIVJAK, Matjaž, ŠIMUNIČ, Boštjan, PIŠOT, Rado, GERŽEVIČ, Mitja, KOREN, Katja, HOLOBAR, Aleš. Motor control strategies in gastrocnemiuns muscles are affected differently in younger than in older adults after 14-day bed rest. V: ESKOLA, Hannu (ur.). EMBEC & NBC 2017, Joint Conference of the European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference (EMBEC) and the Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics (NBC), Tampere, Finland, 2017 [COBISS.SI-ID 20897302].
  12. GLASER, Vojko, HOLOBAR, Aleš. Dekompozicija dinamičnih površinskih elektromiogramov s prilagodljivo obtežitvijo prispevkov motoričnih enot, Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference ERK 2017, ERK 2017, Portorož, Slovenija, 2017 [COBISS.SI-ID 20837654].
  13. DIVJAK, Matjaž, GLASER, Vojko, HOLOBAR, Aleš, ŠIMUNIČ, Boštjan, KOREN, Katja, GERŽEVIČ, Mitja, PIŠOT, Rado. Decomposition of surface electromyograms reveals changes in motor control after 14-day bed rest. V: 2016 27th irish signals and systems conference (ISSC), Ulster University, Derry, June 21-22, 2016 [COBISS.SI-ID 1538595524].
  14. OBU, Jan, HOLOBAR, Aleš. Analiza površinskih elektromiogramov, zajetih z nizkocenovno zapestnico Myo. Zbornik petindvajsete mednarodne Elektrotehniške in računalniške konference ERK 2016, Portorož, Slovenija [COBISS.SI-ID 19847190].
  15. GABERŠEK, Davor, HOLOBAR, Aleš. Brezizgubno in izgubno stiskanje večkanalnih površinskih elektromiogramov. Zbornik petindvajsete mednarodne Elektrotehniške in računalniške konference ERK 2016, Portorož, Slovenija [COBISS.SI-ID 19847446].
  16. HUKIĆ, Alma, ZAJC, Dejana, CIKAJLO, Imre. Uporaba navideznega okolja v delovni terapiji pri bolnici s parkinsonovo boleznijo - prikaz primera (Using the virtual reality in occupational therapy in patient with Parkinsonʼs disease - case report). V: GALOF, Katarina (ur.). Delovna terapija pomaga ljudem živeti na svoj način : zbornik z recenzijo, 8. kongres delovnih terapevtov Slovenije, Rogaška Slatina, 27. in 28. oktober 2016. Ljubljana, Slovenija: 16-22, 2016, [COBISS.SI-ID 2233705].
  17. Imre Cikajlo, Dejana Zajc, Irena Dolinšek, Tatjana Krizmanič, Alma Hukić, Mateja Vesel, Karmen Peterlin Potisk, Precise hand movement telerehabilitation with virtual cubes for patients with Parkinson’s disease, REHAB 2016, October 13 - 14, 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3051488.3051493.

Workshops

  1. HOLOBAR, Aleš, ŠAVC, Martin, GLASER, Vojko, CIKAJLO, Imre, MATJAČIĆ, Zlatko. On coherence between cumulative motor unit spike trains and NMF components of high-density electromyograms. International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology. 2018 [COBISS.SI-ID 22149654].
  2. HOLOBAR, Aleš, GLASER, Vojko. Identification of motor unit firings at different speeds of dynamic muscle contractions. International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology. 2018, [COBISS.SI-ID 22150678].
  3. HOLOBAR, Aleš. Advanced analysis of surface electromyograms: decoding the neural information: lecture at Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, Northwestern University of Chicago, USA, 2nd Oktober 2017 (2 hours). [COBISS.SI-ID 21012246].
  4. HOLOBAR, Aleš. Identification of neural information in electromyograms : invited lecture at Imperial College London, 27. 11. 2017 (2 hours). [COBISS.SI-ID 21012758].
  5. HOLOBAR, Aleš. Advanced analysis of surface electromyograms : non-invasive insight into neural code : 40 houres of lectures at the Division of exercise science and sports, medicine, University of Cape Town in South Africa, 9 May - 3th May 2016, Cape Town. [COBISS.SI-ID 19595542].
  6. HOLOBAR, Aleš. Surface electromyography and its potentials in assessment of neurodegenerative diseases and stroke rehabilitation : invited lecture at SiNAPSA Neuroscience conference '17 - SNC'17, September 29.-30. 2017, Ljubljana. [COBISS.SI-ID 21011990].
  7. HOLOBAR, Aleš. Understanding neural codes in muscle-machine interaction : plenary lecture at Winter school on Wearable Robotics, 22. 1. 2018, Kranjska Gora. [COBISS.SI-ID 22073110].

Patents

  1. MATJAČIĆ, Zlatko, CIKAJLO, Imre, OBLAK, Jakob. Universal haptic drive system: United States Patent, No. US 9,233,046 B2, [COBISS.SI-ID 2128489].
  2. HOLOBAR, Aleš, KRANJEC, Jernej. Računalniška naprava za neposredno ocenjevanje vzorcev vzbujanja skeletnih mišic izn elektromiogramov : patentna prijava P-201900026. Ljubljana: Urad RS za intelektualno lastnino, 2019 [COBISS.SI-ID 22170390].

Software

  1. DIVJAK, Matjaž, URH, Filip, KRANJEC, Jernej, CIKAJLO, Imre, MATJAČIĆ, Zlatko, HOLOBAR, Aleš. mQUANT: global quantification of coactivation patterns in skeletal muscles : verzija 1.0. [Maribor: UM FERI, 2018]. 1 CD-ROM. [COBISS.SI-ID 21991190].
  2. GLASER, Vojko, HOLOBAR, Aleš. Dynamic convolution kernel compensation, ver. 1.0. Maribor: UM FERI, 2016 [COBISS.SI-ID 20063510].
  3. GLASER, Vojko, HOLOBAR, Aleš. Dynamic MUAP lib, ver. 1.0. Maribor: UM FERI, 2016 [COBISS.SI-ID 20063254].
  4. GLASER, Vojko, HOLOBAR, Aleš. Simulator dinamičnih površinskih elektromiogramov, ver. 1.0. Maribor: UM FERI, 2016 [COBISS.SI-ID 20062742].
  5. KRANJEC, Jernej, ŠAVC, Martin, HOLOBAR, Aleš. Global Kernel Compensation : verzija 1.0. Maribor: UM FERI, 2017. 1 el. optični disk (DVD). [COBISS.SI-ID 21036310]
  6. ŠAVC, Martin, GLASER, Vojko, HOLOBAR, Aleš. mEFA - muscle excitation visual feedback application : verzija 1.0. Maribor: UM FERI, 2017. 1 el. optični disk (DVD). [COBISS.SI-ID 21036566].

Media & public presentations

  1. HOLOBAR, Aleš (intervjuvanec), POTOČNIK, Božidar (intervjuvanec), DIVJAK, Matjaž (intervjuvanec), MUNDA, Jurij (intervjuvanec), KRANJEC, Jernej (intervjuvanec), ŠAVC, Martin (intervjuvanec), SEDEJ, Gašper (intervjuvanec). Bionska roka : prispevek v oddaji Ugriznimo v znanost na RTV SLO, 6. 10. 2016. [COBISS.SI-ID 20064022].
  2. ČERVEK, Urban. Mariborski znanstveniki so svetovni pionirji v razvoju bionike. Večer, ISSN 0350-4972. [Tiskana izd.], 25. dec. 2017, [št.] 291, str. 2-3 [COBISS.SI-ID 21073430].
  3. PAVLOVČIČ, Lidija. Razvoj ferrarija med protezami. Delo, ISSN 0350-7521, 11. avg. 2016 [COBISS.SI-ID 20064278].
  4. HOLOBAR, Aleš, GLASER, Vojko, ŠAVC, Martin. Vmesniki mišice-stroj: ko računalnik ve, kaj delajo mišice : predstavitev na Mednarodnem obrtnem sejmu MOS 2016, 16.-18. september 2016, Celje. [COBISS.SI-ID 20062230].
  5. HOLOBAR, Aleš, MUNDA, Jurij, GLASER, Vojko, DIVJAK, Matjaž. Analiza površinskih elektromiogramov in njene aplikacije v medicini : predstavitev na sejmu MEDICAL - 2. mednarodnem sejmu sodobne medicine, 6. - 8. 4. 2017, Gornja Radgona. [COBISS.SI-ID 20538134].
  6. HOLOBAR, Aleš, GLASER, Vojko, ŠAVC, Martin. Napredni vmesniki mišice-stroj: predstavitev na Mednarodnem obrtnem sejmu MOS 2017, 12-17. september 2017, Celje [COBISS.SI-ID 21012502].
  7. HOLOBAR, Aleš: Non-invasive assessment of human health parameters in smart communities, predstavitev na mednarodnem sejmu Feel the future 2017, 19-21. oktober 2017, Celje.
  8. HOLOBAR, Aleš, URH, Filip, DIVJAK, Matjaž, ŠAVC, Martin, MUNDA, Jurij. Napredni vmesniki mišice-stroj in dekodiranje živčnih kod : predstavitev na Mednarodnem obrtnem sejmu MOS 2018, 11-16. september 2018, Celje. [COBISS.SI-ID 21823510].
  9. HOLOBAR, Aleš, MUNDA, Jurij, GLASER, Vojko, DIVJAK, Matjaž. Nove perspektive v neinvazivnem ocenjevanju živčno-mišičnih signalov: skupne aktivnosti motoričnih nevronov : predstavitev na Mednarodnem obrtnem sejmu Medical, od 17.-19. 4. 2018 v Gornji Radgoni. [COBISS.SI-ID 21823254].
  10. ŠAVC, Martin, MEZNARIČ, Gal, HOLOBAR, Aleš. V stiku z računalniškim vidom in umetno inteligenco : predstavitev v okviru Evropske noči raziskovalcev 2018, Maribor, 28. 9. 2018. [COBISS.SI-ID 21799446].