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Intact-to-Amputee Transfer in Surface-EMG Gesture Decoding: Training Source and Calibration Budget

Jethro Odeyemi·W. J. Zhang
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A recogniser trained on one person rarely transfers to the next, and useful performance usually demands a fresh round of labelled calibration from the end user. A systematic review of 1077 studies quantifies where the evidence is thin: amputees appear in about one in six. Here a montage-agnostic cross-user encoder is carried to eleven transradial amputees on a protocol matched to its intact-limb training data. Zero-shot cross-population transfer fails outright: the encoder requires labeled data from the new user before it begins decoding, and it then exceeds the per-user classifier a clinic would fit by 0.190 macro F1 at three repetitions and for every subject in the cohort. Given three labelled repetitions it reaches 0.779 macro-F1 against 0.589 for the per-user pipeline. Training on forty intact subjects produces better transfers to a new amputee than training on ten other amputees, and combining the two produces better transfers than either individually. The prediction pre-registered for this study, which extends the encoder's baseline-strength account with the premise that amputee EMG is less separable, holds true only after a few repetitions become available and after enriching the source pool with additional amputees. At a single repetition, and at every budget under a source matched to the intact-limb comparison, it fails. Thus, it locates the boundary of the proposed account.

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Jethro Odeyemi, W. J. Zhang. 2026-07-31. Intact-to-Amputee Transfer in Surface-EMG Gesture Decoding: Training Source and Calibration Budget. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20297

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