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Ping Zhou, PhD
- Research Scientist, SMPP & NECAL
- Research Assistant Professor, PM&R, Feinberg School of Medicine, NU
Locations
Research Interests
Ping Zhou, PhD is currently researching Motor unit recording and analysis
Biomedical signal (in particular EMG) processing
Neuromuscular system modeling
Myoelectric prosthesis control.
Education & Training
Education
- Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, 2004
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
- M.S. Biomedical Engineering, 1999
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
- B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1995
Fellowships
- Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Postdoctoral Training in Myoelectric Control, 2006
Awards & Recognition
1999 Graduate Thesis Award, University of Science and Technology of China
1999 President (GuoMoRuo) Prize, University of Science and Technology of China (the highest
honor from the university)
1999-2000 Walter P. Murphy Fellowship, Northwestern University
2001 Sarah Baskin Award for Excellence in Research, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
2005 Young Investigator Scholarship, the 3rd International Meeting of Brain-Computer Interface
Technology, Rensselaeville, NY
2006 Distinguished Research Fellowship, the US Department of Education
Recent or Important Publications
Hargrove L, Zhou P, Englehart KB, and Kuiken TA, The effect of ECG interference on pattern recognition based myoelectric control for targeted muscle reinnervated patients, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (Accepted for publication).
Huang H, Zhou P, Li G, and Kuiken TA, EMG electrode optimization for targeted muscle reinnervation based neural machine interface, IEEE Transactions on Neural System and Rehabilitation Engineering (Acepted for publication).
Kuiken TA, Miller LA, Lipschutz RD, Lock BA, Stubblefield K, Marasco PD, Zhou P, Dumanian GA, Targeted reinnervation for enhanced prosthetic arm function in a woman with a proximal amputation: a case study, Lancet: 369(9559):371-80, 2007.
Zhou P, Lock B, and Kuiken TA, Real time ECG artifact removal for myoelectric prosthesis control, Physiological Measurement, vol. 28. no. 4, pp. 397-413, 2007.
Zhou P, Lowery MM, Englehart KB, Huang H, Li G, Hargrove L, Dewald JPA, and Kuiken TA, Decoding a new neural-machine interface for control of artificial limbs, Journal of Neurophysiology (Accepted for publication), 2007.
Zhou P, Suresh NL, and Rymer WZ, Model based sensitivity analysis of EMG-force relation with respect to motor unit properties: applications to muscle paresis in stroke, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 35, no. 9, pp. 1521-1531, 2007.
Li XY, Zhou P, and Aruin A, Teager-Kaiser energy operation of surface EMG improves muscle activity onset detection, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 35, no. 9, pp. 1532-1538, 2007.
Zhou, P & Kuiken, TA Eliminating cardiac contamination from myoelectric control signals developed by targeted muscle reinnervation, Physiological Measurement, vol. 27, pp. 1311-1327, 2006.
Zhou P, Lowery MM, and Rymer WZ, Extracting motor unit firing information by independent component analysis of surface electromyogram: a preliminary study using a simulation approach, International Journal of Computers, Systems and Signals, Special Issue on Biomedical Information and Engineering, vol. 7, pp. 19-28, 2006.
Zhou P, and Rymer WZ, Factors governing the form of the relation between muscle force and the electromyogram (EMG): a simulation study, Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 92, pp. 2878-2886, 2004.
Zhou P, and Rymer WZ, Motor unit action potential number estimates in surface EMG: template matching methods and their performance boundaries. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 32, no. 7, pp. 1007-1015, 2004.
Zhou P, and Rymer WZ, An evaluation of the utility and limitations of MUAP counts in the surface EMG, Journal of Neural Engineering, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 238-245, 2004.
Zhou P, and Rymer WZ, Can standard surface EMG processing parameters be used to estimate motor unit global firing rate? Journal of Neural Engineering, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 99-110, 2004.